The European Union will not introduce a visa regime for citizens of the U.S. and Canada due to the fact they still have not cancelled visas for a number of EU member states.

This issue will be solved with Canada but the U.S. may introduce visas for all citizens of the EU, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos stated.

The Commissioner said that he was not sure that cancellation of a visa-free regime for citizens of Canada would have helped to achieve their goal and noted that imposition of visas for Canadians would be extremely counter-productive, RIA Novosti reported.

He noted that this issue was linked to the future of the comprehensive trade and economic agreement and agreement on strategic partnership of Bulgaria and Romania. He said that signing of these agreements would become the main outcome of the EU-Canada summit to be held on October 27.