George W. Bush went around the subject of the Romanian visas for the USA. He didn’t say anything actually

“I ate a delicious lunch and I advise all the Romanian journalists to try the Romanian ice-cream if they hadn’t done that yet”. Some might say a client paid to eat his lunch at a famous restaurant in Bucharest said these words, but these were the words of the US President, words meant to conclude the bilateral discussions with the Romanian President. This is the most important thing that George Bush remembered after the meeting that was supposed to clarify the relations between Romania and USA. However, George W. Bush went around the subject of the Romanian visas for the USA. He didn’t say anything actually. This moment reveals the way in which the American leader understands the relation with Romania.

As far as we know, a number of former communist states, members of the EU, still have to get visas in order to get in the USA. The Romanian citizen sees Romania as a strategic ally of the USA, the Romanian soldiers are appreciated by their American colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan, because they sacrifice themselves. For him, the visa issue is very important. Due to the bureaucracy and to the typically American arrogance, the Romanian citizens who want to get to the USA have to survive several embarrassing steps. The US Embassy, which looks like a fortress guarded by American agents and Romanian riot police officers, is surrounded every day by aboriginals that form very long rows and wait their turn scared at the thought that there might be a certain detail that would stop them from leaving for the USA. They don’t leave there to stay, but to visit their relatives or the country. In order to solve the problem of the elimination of the visas, the European Union asked the USA to negotiate to Brussels directly. The Americans, who seem more an