What do you think about membership of Bulgaria and Romania in the European Union. Pros&Cons, opinions...?
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Every country to join the EU has benefitted immensely from it.  Ireland, Spain, Portugal improved their economy and their standard of living and caught up with the rest of the EU when they joined, and Poland, Czech, and the other new members should catch up soon.  I don't see any reason why Bulgaria and Romania won't do the same.  However if they don't join the EU then they could get left behind.
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They might - they are certainly very closely connected economically and politically.  The problem is Lukashenka.  He was all for unification when he thought that it would mean he would get a position of real power in the new expanded Russia/Belarus.  Once it became apparent that he would not, and instead would be lucky to be governor of the new Belorussian region or a member of the Duma (Russian parliament), he lost interest and would now actively oppose such a measure (the same things happened when the Moldovan leadership considered joining Romania.  The stronger country never wants to give the rulers of the weaker country a “promotion” to leadership of both).
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I think Romania were very unfortunate to miss out on World Cup 2006, they started their group games badly, finished stronger than the Czechs but it wasn't enough to overhaul them.\n\nI have always been a fan of Romanian football, Gheorge Hagi is one the greatest players to grace the game. Romanians play a very technical game which I enjoy. I think they have a young squad that wil only grow stronger, I expect them to be in Switzerland in 2008. \n\nI have been a fan of Anghel Iordanescu and Emerich Jenei, there's another coach whose name I forget, he managed Inter once.\n\nI was sad for them when they outplayed denmark at the Parken Stadium in 2003 only to see Denmark grab an equaliser in the 5th minute of stoppage time when the referee had signalled for just 4 mins.
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I live there. And I like it. It's developing it's civilization and building a strong economy.\nBut let's be objective about it:\n\nFrom wikipedia.org:\n"Romania (formerly also spelled Rumania or Roumania; Romanian: România /ro.mɨ'ni.a/) is a country in Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast; Hungary and Serbia and Montenegro in the west and Bulgaria to the south along the Danube River. Romania has a stretch of sea coast on the Black Sea and the eastern and southern Carpathian mountains run through its centre. Romania has been a member of NATO since 2004, and is also an acceding country to the European Union. The EU Accession Treaty was signed in early 2005, and Romania is due to join the Union on January 1, 2007."\nRead the entire article here:
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its possible\ngood for bulgaria? yes\ngood for anyone else? no
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Yup!Eu sunt din Romania!(Yup!I am from Romania!)
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Romania and Bulgaria are Axis satellites; Greece and Yugoslavia are members of the United Nations; Albania is occupied territory; and Turkey has been a fairly consistent nonbelligerent. Bulgaria was happy with German permission to occupy Yugoslavian and Greek Macedonia and Thrace. Obedient to its master’s voice, Romania did not complain out loud when Hitler ordered the cession of northern Transylvania to Hungary in 1940. But Romania has not forgotten this enforced loss of territory, and underneath the surface of common membership in the Axis, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria are seething with territorial jealousies and ambitions. Greece and Yugoslavia are also insistent that their seized provinces shall be restored to them.\n\nSuch trouble spots as Transylvania, Thrace, Macedonia, Northern Epirus, Kossovo, and the Banat may be just words to other people. But to the people of the Balkans they have been fighting words. Much had been done before the war, however, to make boundary disputes less dangerous to peace. Only one of the six Balkan states, Bulgaria, was still unreconciled, and even Bulgaria had undertaken not to try to modify its frontiers by force of arms.\n\nAdded to these disputes between the nations are the internal divisions between various groups within (or exiled from) each country. That between the Chetniks and the Partisans is only the most spectacular and most publicized conflict. In Greece and Albania as well, struggles are in progress between the popular, forces of resistance and liberation on the one hand, and the elements of reaction and collaboration on the other, although the latter are almost negligible. The real fight is rather between bands with conflicting ideas of patriotism. Some people think there are pro-Allied movements in Bulgaria and Romania too, awaiting the opportunity to throw out pro-Axis governments. In all the Balkan countries, as in the rest of Europe, there are seeds of civil strife.\n\nIn this pamphlet, much of the blame for past Balkan troubles has been freely placed on the great powers. But of course they are not solely responsible.\n\nUncritical nationalism is particularly strong in the Balkans. And it is just in the Balkans, a small area crowded with many different peoples, that unbridled nationalist rivalry is perhaps most dangerous. The great powers have been as much motivated by nationalism as the small ones—and perhaps will continue to be. But if it is questionable whether they can afford to prolong a system in which aggressive nationalism is curbed only by the force of opposing nationalism, it is certain that the Balkan countries cannot afford it.\n\nTo put it the other way around, if the great powers have had to “recognize the necessity of establishing ... a general international organization ... for the maintenance of ... peace and security,” in the words of the Moscow Declaration, the Balkan nations are still more obliged to seek for peaceful ways of settling conflicts through cooperation or else destroy themselves.\n\nIn the settlements after World War I it was clearly not possible to draw national boundaries in the Balkans according to the wishes of all the people. Unavoidably a great many people in the mixed populations had to be left on the “wrong” side of the line wherever it was drawn. To resolve this difficulty, population exchanges were suggested and tried as the easiest and most durable solution.\n\nIn one instance—between Greece and Turkey after 1923—that method proved, in its outcome, highly successful. It removed the cause of incessant quarreling between Turkey and Greece who have since become good friends instead of bitter enemies. In a second instance—between Greece and Bulgaria—it was also beginning to show good results.\n\nPopulation exchange might work as well in other instances and again in some it could not be applied. To uproot the half-million or so Albanians who live in the Kossovo region of Yugoslavia and dump them into an already pov
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U are asking if Romania should join the EU?Yes,they should,they made progresses this past year,so they deserve it.
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G'day Parvicadi,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nBasescu is doing a good job as President of Romania as far as I can tell. He seems to be popular with the Romanian people.\n\nRegards
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Is the question: Are you for it or against it?  I'm not European but looking at how many different countries and different cultures make up the European continent, I don't think we should just lump them all up into one.  I believe they would want their own identities and would like to keep their heritage alive.  Although it is well-meaning and optimistic to believe we should all be one and call ourselves citizens of the world, alas, that is not the case.  We are still culturally divided and as human beings inherently attached to tradition and view our past as well our future tied up to who we are and where we come from.
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a13 (above posting) got it REALLY right.   I just want to comment about how people outside of Romania (particularly in USA) ARE IDIOTS about vampires.  Go to Romania to Sighisoara and eat lunch in Vlad Tepes' bedroom (it's a quaint little restaurant in the citadel there now) and see how there's no way that vampires are all over the place there - and how people there think you are a fool if you believe otherwise (although there are bats).  And the next time someone tells me that Transilvania is in Pennsylvania I'M GOING TO EXPLODE!  lol.  Gypsies are less dangerous than gangstas in the US.  All that aside, Romania is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there... just yet (that will change by 2020).
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Hi!\nAfter 1st of January every Bulgarian citizen will be allowed to travel freely everywhere in Europe without any visa or time period restrictions!\nAnd Greece allows Bulgarians to work in their country!\nYou won't have any problems about that!\nAz sa6to sam balgarka
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Yes. That they must do. Romanian people work and count for that. All changes in Romania was happened under auspice of EU. They have one or two problem more to solve (corruption, labor), but they can give a lot to EU. Not only free labor, also some agricultural product.
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The EU doesn't want Turkey in. If they did, Turkey would have been a member many years ago. \n\nI find it strange that the Eastern European States are entering the EU so easily, while Turkey, a very powerful country, that would add much to the EU, is barred from entry.\n\nI am also surprised that the Turks still want to join the EU, it's such an insult to Turkish Pride, I mean, this IS Turkey afterall, the Ex-Ottoman Empire, being insulted by Europeans who refuse it entry into a regional union. \n\nWhen countries like Slovenia get in so quickly and Turkey is left out like that, I'ld look elsewhere for friends.\n\nEurope is confused and hypocritical.\n\nSad sad sad.
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Absolutely.  I'd love to visit all of the countries if it were possible.  That's a pretty lofty goal, too, because I've only been to a few... live in the US, been to Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas.  Not too far from home!\n\nWhats your favorite thing about Romania?
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From what I've heard, Eastern Europe is a great place to buy real estate right now. \n\n I'm English, but I have a Romanian friend, and she's always going on about how cool the Black Sea cost is. \n\n The only part of Eastern Europe I've been to is Hungary (although you could call it central Europe), and it was beautiful. It's a part of the world I'd love to visit more.
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I don't know about Romania but I can tell you how does it work in Bulgaria. Foreigners can buy property there, but when there is a land included, the foreign citizens have to register a company in Bulgaria. As soon as the company is registered, any property in Bulgaria may be purchased to the company name. \nBut if you want to buy an apartment, it's not necessary to establish your own company or else.