Ugh man, don't be a fool to equate economic growth and wellbeing of the people. The two have little in common with one another. The measure of GDP alone is a poor indicator of the quality of life. And to think that the best you could do is take a wikipedia article.
Especially vivid is the upheval facing the country...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLG80487220090616
Unemployment rising to double digit figures soon, along with a tumbling GDP are vivid.
It's just the simple consequences of pursuing "dependency" rather than "development".
Shit, I can buy up a beach in Bulgaria, make money by getting tourists from england to go there... stuffing myself with the money... I run off with a killing, and GDP technically increases, but it doesn't really help.
In primitive romania, other than dead guys winning elections...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7459695.stm
...we have entire villages being slaughtered by western capital.
In poland the EU is blocking the government from helping out the ship building sector...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7714643.stm
And lets not forget that after 15 years of free market economics, all they had to show for it was more income inequality and a 20 percent unemployment rate. That is our poster-boy success model - insane levels of unemployment, brought down only thanks to millions of these serfs fleeing to the West upon entry to the EU.
There were other poster boys for free market capitalism. Guess what happened to them and who they were. Argentina for example. They collapsed because this model sucks. They are now doing quite well with a more smarter approach, one that looks into the fair market more so than the free one. In poland... well, there was not complete collapse as in Argentina, but a stagnant unemployment rate of around 20 percent speaks for itself. GG.
Jee, I think I forgot Romania. Lets ruin the livelihood of much of their population like has been done all over latin america and the third world. You see, the landless-peasants-to-be can not compete with mechanized agriculture. This is where free trade kills them as they can not compete with our prices.
"I did not want to leave my village, because this is the life I've learned ... apartment blocks are too small, the air is dirty and I'm afraid of cars," Serban said.
Such dramas are occurring all over Romania, as one of the European Union's poorest and most backward members tries to modernize its antiquated agricultural sector.
Of almost 13,000 villages in Romania with an average of 800 inhabitants, 100 villages are completely empty and some 1,500 villages have under 100 people, according to the National Statistics Institute.
Some 40 percent of Romania's 22 million people still live in the countryside. It is common to see them working the fields with their hands or with wooden implements and driving horses and carts. Many villages still lack running water.
That's right, we must tame these savages, change their inappropriate way of life, to readjust them into our money making apparatus.
And if it fails we gotta bail it out and keep at the same things that brought us into the mess that we are in.
I on the other hand say no to the "Dependency Syndrome".
edit:
Here is a map of the results of the first election. It's the only such map that I have been able to find... hence it could be better.