ROMANIA the Africa of Europe?

[Szegedist]

one question:is corruption better than foreigners, especially non-European ones, in your country?what would you prefer, a corrupt national state, with no foreigners and immigrants, or a non-corrupt, globalized, state, full of immigrants? strictly between these two, please, because these two are the trend in politics at the moment

Option C , corrupt state with gypsies , best of both worlds

[cyrus]

Who is interested in destabilizing Romania? I mean foreign power.
BTW, it's not a law. It's an emergency ordonnance of the government, which modify the penal code. This mean that in a parliamentary republic, the government wants to put aside the Parliament take it's powers. Right?
Anyway, let's hope that this situation will be resolved in the best way for Romania. Similar situations are everywhere. We live in difficult and dangerous times.

Romania since joining the EU becomes a neo-liberal experiment. A little-known fact about Romania is that Romanian secret service is wiretapping twice as many phones than the USA at 16 times less population. I don't know who's serving such a measure at such magnitude, you'll be the judge of that, but something is fishy about that.

[Grishnack]

Option C , corrupt state with gypsies , best of both worlds

Don't forget Option D: corrupt state populated only by gypsies because all the Romanians moved to Germany or something.

[Light]

boom!

[Laberia]

Romania since joining the EU becomes a neo-liberal experiment. A little-known fact about Romania is that Romanian secret service is wiretapping twice as many phones than the USA at 16 times less population. I don't know who's serving such a measure at such magnitude, you'll be the judge of that, but something is fishy about that.

I think you have to find the roots of the crisis in the Romanian society and political class. The same can be said for Albania and other ex- communist countries. A country is like your home. If you have problems within your family, for sure that others will try to take advantage. Brussels can give you fishing lessons,it's your duty to go into the sea and fishing, always following the rules. And here is the problem, our elites don't like the rules of game.

[Grishnack]

I think you have to find the roots of the crisis in the Romanian society and political class. The same can be said for Albania and other ex- communist countries. A country is like your home. If you have problems within your family, for sure that others will try to take advantage. Brussels can give you fishing lessons,it's your duty to go into the sea and fishing, always following the rules. And here is the problem, our elites don't like the rules of game.

That's a very competent analysis of the current situation.

[cyrus]

Clintonists.

[Philip Latinowitz]

Have to give credit to Romanians, country made huge step forward in last 10 years. I remember visit there in 2005 and it was in sorry state- gypsies, prostitutes and poverty everywhere.
Romania changed a lot, keep it up. It's good to see people actively protest against openly pro-corruption laws passed on by their government.

[Stears]

VLACHS (Romanians) WERE THE LATEST NOMADIC ETHNIC GROUP IN EUROPE, the vast majority of Romanian population preserved its nomadic lifestyle and heritage until the end of 16th century. They were known as late - nomadic people in medieval chronicles. The first romanian vlach churches were built only around the turn of the 13th and 14th century. No known archiutecture existed before that period. The romanian literacy and their earliest chronicles appeared only in the early 17th century (Grigore Ureche's chronicle). USE Google books! (The word's largest digitalized library, the largest collection of printed books) See the google book results (search the british american candian authors about medieval romanians Vlachs):

Link to the book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=bR...-gypsy&f=false

B. Fowkes (2002) : Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World -PAGE: 12

"That curious minority, the Vlachs of the Balkans, for example, were on the face of it Romanians ('Wallachians') but in fact the name was also applied to Slavs who shared the same pastoral, nomadic life as the Romanian shepherds."

Link to the book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=_q...lvania&f=false

Norman Berdichevsky (2004): Nations, Language and Citizenship -page: 181.

"The “true Romanians” are held to be interlopers who were nomadic shepherds that migrated into Transylvania from the ... then transferred to “Wallachia,” the traditional core area of the Romanian state located east and south of Transylvania."

Link to the book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo...-gypsy&f=false

Victor Roudometof (2002): Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question - PAGE: 128

"The Vlachs are mainly pastoral nomads dispersed among the states of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, and Romania. Since they are Orthodox Christians, they have mostly become part of the predominantly Eastern Orthodox ..."


Link to the book:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...-gypsy&f=false

Roumen Daskalov, ?Alexander Vezenkov - 2015: Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three: Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies PAGE: 309

"Zlatarski adds an a priori statement that the very thought of an uprising could occur only to Bulgarian local notables or voivods, not to the nomadic Vlachs, who he says were at a low level of cultural development"

Link to the book:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...0-roma&f=false

Rob Humphreys, ?Susie Lunt, ?Tim Nollen - 2002 : Rough Guide to the Czech & Slovak Republics - Page 408

"Wallachian culture As far as anybody can make out, the Wallachs or Vlachs were semi-nomadic sheep and goat farmers who settled the mountainous areas of eastern Moravia and western Slovakia in the fifteenth century."


Link to the book:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...EED8gQ6AEILzAE

Marek Koter, ?Krystian Heffner - 1999 : Multicultural regions and cities - Page 164

"Nomadic shepherds from the Balkan Peninsula (Wallachians) were moving along the bow of the Carpathians in search of new pastures. "

Link to the book:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...dnCLgQ6AEIHDAA

Marek S. Szczepański Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Jan 1, 1997 - Ethnic Minorities & Ethnic Majority: Sociological Studies of Ethnic Relations in Poland -PAGE: 325
"They were just the Wallachian people (nomadic tribes from the present Romania) from who contemporary Lemks descended; it should be testified by both the elements of material culture, similarities of customs and languages"

Link to the book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ow...tains.&f=false

Normal J. G. Pounds - 1976 - : An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330, Part 1330 -PAGE: 251

"The chief importance of the Vlachs lies, however, in the possible relationship to the Romanians. ... Ages, crossed the Danube into Walachia and continued their pastoral and semi-nomadic life in Transylvania and the Carpathian Mountains."

[Stears]

Inside Europe's last leprosy colony

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