Romania's authorities have admitted into the country dozens of trucks with Dutch tulips that have been detained at the Romanian border, allegedly because of veto of the Netherlands on its Schengen accession.

The decision to let in the trucks importing Dutch tulips, which was technically based on suspicions about a dangerous bacteria, came on the same day that the Netherlands and Finland formally vetoed the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the visa-free Schengen agreement.

Romania's tax administration Anaf announced late Thursday that 25 of the 32 Dutch tulip trucks, which had been stranded at the Romanian border since Friday, have been admitted. However, they are sealed, and will be inspected upon arrival at their destination, the Anaf said, as cited by BGNES.

The Romanian authorities did say that the bacteria in question has been found in one of the trucks, and that the inspection of the samples is still under way.

As the incident gave rise to comments about a "Dutch-Romanian Schengen-tulip war," the Netherlands even accused Bucharest of blackmail.

Health officials in Romania have talked vaguely of the suspected presence of unnamed "dangerous bacteria" in the tulips.

Dutch officials, however, have said it is no coincidence that the tulip scare erupted on the day the Dutch government announced that it would prevent Romania and Bulgaria from gaining clearance to join the Schengen zone.

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