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You can safely add the Balkans and Romania to that group. Although many things work well without a bribe in Romania, most important things, I'm told, do not. Th

by ovi256 16y ago

You can safely add the Balkans and Romania to that group. Although many things work well without a bribe in Romania, most important things, I'm told, do not. The first thing my parents do when they have to deal with the government is ask themselves who do we know that works in that department ? As teachers, that works great for them. TBH, they do that when dealing with private businesses too, maybe even more so, but then I realize that's just how business works.

radu_floricica 16y ago
As a Romanian, this article mostly made me feel good there are worse places. Not a noble feeling, but I'll take what I can. This being said, this instinct about looking for acquaintances first is starting to be not so useful, and used mostly by the older generation. I've seen instances where inside intervention was less efficient - but I've also seen official free consultants (good ones) with too much free time because most people went over their. But still, it is unfortunately far from being a useless strategy in way too many cases. Compared to how the article paints Greece though, our problems are different. Tax evasion is real here, but not critical. What _is_ extremely painful at the moment is the widespread politicization of public institutions. Everything starting from middle school headmasters has to belong to a party or another (and of course usually it's the ruling one).