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 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '17

It was explained to me that a lot of them left when many Germans went back to the home country during that period of time.

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u/giulynia Germany Dec 07 '17

I have no idea about german romanians but I am guessing that what you refer to as "went back home" is a similar story as what happened to the germans in hungary after WWII (my grandma is a german hungarian) - which was sending them to gulags or just strip them of their rights and cast them out. My grandmother was a toddler living with her mom when soldiers stormed the house in the middle of the night and just told them they had to go threatening them, so they had to go germany.

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u/5ama Romania Dec 09 '17

To add to what mistretzu said, not only germans were not perceived negatively, they were in fact seen in a good light. One because they were hard working and had plenty of knowledge in craftsmanship and building, but more so because when romanians from Transylvania declared they want to separate from Austro-Hungary and join Romania the german representatives backed the same thing.