The EU decision concerning the visas for Romanians represents an alarm signal both for the Romanian electorate and for Iliescu and PDSR (Social-Democracy Party). On Friday, the Ministers of Justice and External Affairs of the states belonging to EU decided that Bulgaria's name should disappear from the visas' black list, whereas Romania should maintain the same visa regime, until it observes a certain number of conditions. The same evening, at Sofia, the Bulgarian Minister of External Affairs, Nadejda Mihailovna, burst out crying of joy. "For the Bulgarian citizens, the wall of Berlin has started falling today", Peter Stoyanov (the Bulgarian prsident) declared, trying to dissimulate his colleague's emotion. Bucharest officials received the EU decision with consternation. Most Romanians already think that their future is pretty bleak. The Romanian Minister of External Affairs, Petre Roman, is the only one who seems to be happy. Smiling, he declared during a press conference that the "decision made at Brussels is satisfactory". Three years ago, we were pitying the Bulgarians. Some of us even laughed when we heard that the price of eggs rose three times a day at Sofia and that the retired persons used the tramways in order to get rid of the frozen atmosphere of their own flats. Today, Bulgarians, even if they have the same medium wages as ours, are manifesting on the streets, scanning the names of the members of their government. On the other side of the Danube, Romanians realize that their future is compromised and feel that even the democratic regime might fall down; the ruling politicians are the ones to be blamed for the overwhelming vote given to a mad politician and his party of clowns. Our political leaders' reactions indicate that they haven't understood the non-equivocal message launched by the Brussels high officials. Those who have understood a part of it hav