Romania torn between US and EU

Romania risks having its accession to the EU rejected if the allegations that it has been hosting secret CIA torture camps and thereby violating human rights are proved true.

However, former Romanian defense minister Ioan Mircea Pascu told the Associated Press that “parts of the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base were off-limits to Romanian authorities” more than a year ago, when US troops were using the base as a transit point for returning from the Balkans or departing for Iraq.