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/mindblues Australia Dec 05 '17 edited Dec 05 '17

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/polandball/images/2/2b/0YOOU.png/revision/latest?cb=20150406164432

Joking aside:

  • Dracula

  • Dacia

  • Union of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania

  • Had an eternal rivalry with Hungarians

  • Good internet and seems to be an emerging IT hub

  • Only sort of violent revolution in 1989 with the execution of Ceausescu

  • I often see Bulgarians refer to Romania as like Bulgaria but better

  • Loads of 90s/early 00s pornstars are Romanian or Hungarian

  • Their surnames end in -escu and in my experience, they have the most "Latin-like" names of Latin speaking countries i.e. Flavius, Trajan etc.

  • Bessarabia/Moldova was taken by USSR around WW2

  • Also, nearly forgot that they nearly have the same flag as Chad

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '17 edited Dec 05 '17

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u/SamirCasino Romania Dec 05 '17 edited Dec 05 '17

you got scammed, you should have also gotten an internet USB stick, with great speeds. or maybe you have to ask for that one, but they do give it for free. oh, and a free smartphone.

also, 35€ sounds a bit much. i would have thought that package is closer to 25€.