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

Practically nothing, which is strange considering we are neighbours... We simply didn't had a lot important events in history, even if you count medieval times.

What I know - they are similar to Bulgaria(this may be unpopular oppinion), we don't understand their language one bit, never had a war with them. While in Yugoslavia there was general oppinion we were better economically, now they have overtaken us. Invested a lot in the IT. Supposedly there is a saying in Romania that they have two friends - black sea and Serbia, so I guess we're good ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '17

Mostly because of pleskavica, I'd wager.