by Odessa Toma

Created on: April 08, 2010   Last Updated: April 09, 2010

I moved to Romania over a year ago from the U.S., don't hold that against me!  My husband is originally from Romania.  We thought that Romania joining the EU in January 2007 was going to be a good thing. Make the crooked RO government fly straight, create more jobs and opportunities for the people of this country.  However, after getting here, the E.U. has done nothing but sink this country further into repression. 

There are taxes galore now.  It is still nearly impossible for Romanians to work anywhere in the E.U., in most countries they are still required to obtain work authorization, etc. to work in other EU states.

Romania was in negotiations with U.S. companies to come in and build new roads, highways, interstates, etc., essentially fix the road problems here.  When the negotiations were wrapping up, the EU stepped in, and shut the talks down, telling Romania they COULD NOT use an American company, they HAD to use companies from the EU, whose fees were astronomically higher than that of the U.S. competitors. 

By the way, you have to pay road taxes here, which are suppossed to go to the maintenance of the roads, but are they going there, no, those taxes have to be sent to the EU, who then divides those taxes up and gives the back to the countries they think need the benefits of them.

The EU has come into this country and taken over it's natural resources, with the country from whence all these natural resources are coming from getting only a fraction of the profits.  The local workers still working for peanuts! 

The E.U. calls the shots in other countries, completely negating the need for governments to operate properly in the respective countries.  The Euro was supposed to make a stronger currency in Europe, which has done the opposite. 

The U.K. has not and never will adopt the Euro as it's main currency, but other EU countries are required to adopt the Euro as it's national currency. 

The EU is just another Fascist government entity, flexing it's muscles on countries.  Romania was not a huge world player, never has been, it does however hold a strategic value. 

Like all countries, Romania isn't perfect, they have their flaws.  It's 20 years later, and they are still struggling to become the free country they wanted it to be, instead of the communist one that it was. 

The Romanian government, as well as the other EU member states joined the EU thinking it would be a good thing, a benefit for their country, and hence their people, but in reality it has been the opposite, it placed a large heavy yoke on the shoulders of the people.

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