The European Commission enjoys political discretion to decide whether a suspension of the exemption from the visa requirement for short-term stays by third country nationals in the EU is justified on grounds of a lack of reciprocity, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment delivered on Tuesday 5 September (case C-137/21).
In March 2021, the European Parliament brought an action for failure to act before the CJEU, seeking a declaration that the Commission...