The European integration is not only a process of getting closer the countries involved in this project, it is also a process of common discrimination, unjust maybe, sometimes, with the rest of the world. When people discuss in the buses, in the mass media or when our politicians talk about "visas for the Romanians", we can often read between the lines the conviction or at least the supposition that the visas too, among other issues, are a subject of injustice of the European Union towards Romania. We are the innocent victims of the ignorance and prejudices of the West. Blinded by the apparent efforts of the former rule and especially of Petre Roman, the former Foreign Affairs Minister, to get Romania out from the visas blacklist in 2000, many of us felt in the credulity trap, being somehow convinced that Romania did more for the fulfillment of the criteria imposed, more than the officials in Brussels or Berlin were disposed to accept. But for those who attentively read the list of failures in the fields on which the elimination of visas depend on, failures unemotionally enumerated by the experts of the European commission in the form recently sent to be filled in by the Government in Bucharest, the illusion that we could have been wronged somehow immediately disappears. Not only the lent rhythm of the reform as for the control at the frontiers, for instance, means that "there was no significant impact registered yet at an operational level", but elementary things were not done yet, things that are not related to organization or sophisticated equipment, things that are a question of minimal goodwill. Thus, one could not explain why conditions of strict formality - meaning that they were only implying a political decision - as the introduction of visas for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Turkey, Palestine (!?), Russia, Ukraine and Republic of Moldavia, were