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> To be perfectly honest Romania has as much economic importance to the functioning of the EU as the Arizonian desert does to the US. This is a gross exaggerat
by cbg0 8y ago
> To be perfectly honest Romania has as much economic importance to the functioning of the EU as the Arizonian desert does to the US.
This is a gross exaggeration. We are a country of around 20 million people and we export a diverse array of finished goods, not to mention setting up shop in Romania if you are a multinational company is very useful as the standard of living is lower and you can pay less than you would pay a German, for example.
> What the Romanian government has done with that money is frankly not something anyone really wants to investigate.
Actually it is investigated, nobody's really turning a blind eye to these things. The EU has an anti-fraud office specifically for this: https://ec.europa.eu/anti-fraud/home_en https://ec.europa.eu/anti-fraud/home_en
Also, the European Public Proscutor's office will be set up in the very near future to specifically prosecute fraud concerning EU funds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Prosecutor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Prosecutor
On the military side, we host part of the NATO missile defense system.
- hedora 8y agoHonestly, what you are describing sounds a lot like Arizona (though its population is only 7M, and the economy is mostly mining and real estate / services for retirees / tourists). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona Anyway, I don’t mean any offense to Arizona or Romania. Both places have their upsides, like anywhere else.
- simion314 8y agoRomania has a diverse economy, it is not based on mining, you have many multinationals int he big cities because of high education level(high education is free) of the young people. So we have educated programmers, engineers (as an example some car parts are designed here, some car parts are created here for different manufacturers)