I can confirm Romania is that bad , as someone who traveled there from Deutschland, France, Poland, Hungary, Romanian prices from food to hotels are much more expensive and of lower quality, hopefully they get their act together.
This is also, unfortunately, due to the European Union in part. Many Romanian people come to work in Western European countries, who also suffer from ageing populations and need those people very much. But Romania and other Eastern European/poorer countries in EU get left to pay the bill.
This is why people in like the Netherlands and other EU countries are so annoying when they complain about EU. Western European countries have nothing to complain about, we have all the benefits of EU. It’s no more than fair that are net payers to the system, because the system is to our benefit. We should help the poorer regions to build up their economies so long term they don’t have to come to us, like in Poland is slowly starting to work.
I also have the tendency to that comparison between benefits received from EU vs social state of a country . Just imagine that there are at least 4 millions Romanians abroad and these are people in their prime , majority of them don’t want to come back. It is that bad that last time they did a census they couldn’t even count properly how many people are still living in the country. It is one of the worst population decline in modern time not caused by a pandemic or war. Just social decline.
Yeah I can completely imagine. Same is true for Balkan countries, it’s a real problem. I strongly believe EU needs to step up or watch these countries shift away from us politically.
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u/Lex2882 2d ago
I can confirm Romania is that bad , as someone who traveled there from Deutschland, France, Poland, Hungary, Romanian prices from food to hotels are much more expensive and of lower quality, hopefully they get their act together.