While reading an article in Le Monde (February 29th) about an agreement between the US and the Czech Republic, I wanted to see the American version of that story and I was extremely surprised. Both the French newspaper and the US newspaper had a story concerning the US and the Czech Republic but not quite on the same topic. Le Monde reported Europe condemnation about the separate agreement: Czech citizens no longer need VISA to enter US soil. As Czech Republic being a rather new member(2004), its citizens need a VISA in order to travel to the US.The question about the need of a VISA to enter the US is usually negotiated between European Union and the US and not directly between the country and the US. The other part of the deal was that the Czech Republic has to give information about the passengers to the US. However checking another article about an agreement between this country and the US, the other part of the deal may be much more interesting than just information. The February 28th edition of the NYT contains an article about negotiation between President Bush and Czech leader about an "early warning radar system". The future agreement ends months of negotiation starting in 2007. The NYT article did not mention the reaction of the EU about this agreement nor anything related to the authorization to enter the US soil without VISA. The NYT only mentions the strong opposition from Russia about the US missile shield.
Still I think it is interesting to notice that one can think that the agreement reported in Le Monde newspaper could be the consequence of the agreement reported in NYT.
See the article for yourself at
Le Monde
See the article for yourself at
New York Times
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