EU recommends making visas necessary for US diplomats

The European Commission today said it would recommend that European Union governments impose visa requirements on US diplomats because Washington had failed to waive visas for all 25 EU countries.

Speaking in Brussels, Belgium, EU spokesman Friso Roscam Abbing said EU justice and interior ministers would discuss Washington’s refusal to grant visa-free traffic for nationals of Greece, Cyprus, Malta and eight east European nations that joined the bloc in 2004.