João Luiz schrieb:

I met some Italian tourists in Argentina who claimed they were charged
US$140 for the visa, which they promptly skipped! These Italian
tourists are wealthy and they could easily afford the visa fee. They
could easily spend US$3000 per person or more, 20 times the visa fees
on Brazilian products and services if they visit Brazil! However,
these Italians did not think highly of the Brazilian government by its
visa requirements, so they decide not to bother visiting Brazil.

Sorry to say, but this information is as false as it can be.
No citizen from the European Union needs a tourist visa for Brazil,
the same way no Brazilians need any tourist visa for any country
in the EU.

Just completing, these are presently the countries whose citizens
don't need a visa for Brazil and vice-versa:

Andorra Iceland The Philippines
Argentina Ireland Poland
Austria Israel Portugal
Bahamas Italy San Marino
Barbados Liechtenstein Slovenia
Belgium Luxembourg South Africa
Bolivia Malaysia South Korea
Chile Malta Spain
Colombia Mexico Surinam
Costa Rica Monaco Sweden
Denmark Morocco Switzerland
Ecuador Namibia Thailand
Finland The Netherlands Trinidad and Tobago
France Norway United Kingdom
Germany Panama Uruguay
Greece Paraguay Vatican
Hungary Peru Venezuela


Soon to be expanded as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus join the European Union on the 1st
of May (the other 4 new members where already in the list).

JL