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Some of my impressions from when Romania joined EU: - Old communist mines have closed due to environmental regulation. This is good, but it is regulation. - F
by danuker 5y ago
Some of my impressions from when Romania joined EU:
- Old communist mines have closed due to environmental regulation. This is good, but it is regulation.
- Food must now be strictly labeled. Again good, but more regulation. For instance, milk has strict packaging regulations and can no longer be sold easily in farmer's markets. This drove the price up.
- Public infrastructure must meet certain standards in order to access EU funds. These regulations are again good. But certain local corrupt politicians fail to get their buddies' company to respect them, so they just use local funds.
- GDPR and EU copyright acts: these are more regulation, which I think is not so good. See my opinions here: https://danuker.go.ro/tag/eu.html https://danuker.go.ro/tag/eu.html
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- vanderZwan 5y agoSorry that people downvoted you - you shared a nuanced opinion based on your experiences, and your comment did not deserve that just because it went against how people feel about the issue. I might not fully agree with the conclusions but that is no reason for the downvotes. I think where we differ in conclusions is whether or not we think a change in regulations means more regulations. It more likely is fewer but more restrictive regulations instead. This is a bit of a semantic argument however, I admit, but on top of that I happen to mostly agree with the more restrictive regulation in most cases. Again, thank you for your thoughtful counter-opinion
- danuker 5y agoIt's not just change, it's a larger volume of regulation to read and understand. In the past there were fewer words/pages in the law, and a lighter burden of compliance. But some processes have become more streamlined, such as paying taxes.