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Romanian officials refused entry to 15 Dutch trucks...full of tulips and bulbs...claiming the bulbs and seeds might be contaminated with "dangerous bacteria."
But the entry denials only occurred after a Dutch minister said his nation would veto Romania's entry to the border-free Schengen area...because of Bucharest's poor efforts fighting corruption.
"It looks like Romanian authorities have chosen the Dutch tulip – a core product of the Netherlands' economy, with a high symbolic value – for a bit of old school blackmail," said a Dutch MEP.
