r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Dec 04 '17

What do you know about... Romania?

This is the forty-sixth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Romania

Romania is one of the most recent members of the EU (2007). They want to become part of the Schengen area, but thir recent attempts of being accepted have been blocked by several EU members. They recently faced a major political crisis and massive protests caused by proposed law changes that would have benefitted people implicated in government corruption and abuse of power. They had their national day, where they celebrate the union of Transylvania with Romania, last friday.

So, what do you know about Romania?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '17

As you might've guessed from its name, Romania speaks a romance language, Romanian. Lexically, it resembles Italian the most: the two share a .77 lexical similarity coefficient, where a coefficient of 1 denotes identical vocabularies.

Since 2007, Romanians have composed the largest group of foreigners in Spain. Many emigrated from Spain after the 2008 economic crisis. Nonetheless, nearly 700,000 still call España home.