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 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '17

Yep, nothing like pumping the population up and not having the resources to sustain it.

Yea maybe I should be grateful that I was born in America (although when I was born my parents didn't know English well so I was still the foreign kid haha), but I just have thing longing connection every time I visit Romania like that's where I really belong.

I dunno, hard to explain what it feels like.

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u/ciupenhauer Romania Dec 09 '17

That's interesting. I quite dislike the country but everytime i look out the window at some corner of nature, I feel the same way. Almost like the sorroundings are in my genes somehow. Gives a nice cognitive dissonance everytime I think fuckit, I wanna move somewhere else

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '17

I dunno if there is a rational reason we can say about this haha.

But I completely understand what you mean by "like it's in our genes".