Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
Ah, the Italians. Don't you just love them? I was talking with an embassy vice consul in China last week about the Schengen area visa regime and she was complaining that the Italians don't even bother to show up to the EU meetings and then get huffy when new regulations or procedures come out. You know someone is slack when even the Estonian and Greek governments are outperforming them.
A few years back (but still post 9/11), I was waved into Italy (from non Schengen) without the Immigration official even touching my passport. He saw it was Canadian and waves my wife and I in.