EU will blackmail Washington officials just have all its citizens get into the visa waiver program, one newspaper reads on Thursday. Elsewhere in the news, Romanian Democratic Liberal leader Valeriu Stoica's professional history as a judge during the Communist era is lost. Last but not least, another newspaper reads about the European Commission's July report on Romania's justice sector and its expected impact.
Cotidianul reads that if American authorities keep postponing the inclusion of all EU member states in the visa waiver program, EU officials will demand American diplomats to get a visa when visiting EU countries.
The European Commission will propose that American diplomats require a visa when entering one of the 27 EU member states.
The punitive measure would be applied within the EU starting January 2009 and would affect all American diplomats. European Commissioner for Justice Jacques Barrot declared that this situation is unacceptable: all EU member states should be allowed to travel without a visa in the US.
EU reactions fired up when US officials started negotiating bilateral agreements for the visa waiver program with several EU member states but did not seek the agreement of the European Commission.
EU officials are against this measure because bilateral agreements imply that EU member states will reveal private information about all passengers traveling or transiting their countries. Several states have already been threatened by the Commission with the launching of several procedures for breaching EU treaties.
Elsewhere in the news, one of the founders of the Democrat Liberal Party (PD-L) in 2006, Valeriu Stoica's professional map registering his activity as a judge for 11 years during the Communist era is lost, Evenimentul Zilei reads.
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