How welcoming Romania and Bulgaria inside EU on january 2007 ?

loloieg ViP

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loloiegViP05 October 2006 08:30:14

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Hello there,

the 1st january 2007, Romania and Bulgaria will enter into the UE... that will count 27 countries.
That is a good news from my point of view

But, according to the warm welcome we gave to the others 10 countries in 2004, I'm a little bit afraid...

My first question would be: how to welcome them warmly ??

This post would be interesting if Bulgarian, Romanian, expats in Bulgaria or in Romania would told us how it is a chance to welcome them. "This is the end", yes this is the end of the clichés about Romania and Bulgaria !!

If anybody is afraid, he/she is welcomed to say why... and so maybe some of us would dissipate these feelings

From my point of view, of course, it would not be easy (but not very hard as well), we will need to make some efforts, but they already made a lot more. I think that there are more good things than bad things...
I'm very proud to be European and to live in an area that connect people with different cultures and make them live together in peace !!

WELCOME (in advance) !!!!

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juleslvdMember05 October 2006 09:08:51

I have been livinging Romania for 6 months untils last saturday.

I was there when we knew Romania would join the EU on 1st January 2007.

And according to what I saw (collegues and friends), They didn't celebrate it. And they are perhaps more afraid than GB about this new arriving...

Romania is entring the EU knowing that many countries don't want them. Every day at the news, we can hear about the Bristish who are so afraid about the imigrants coming from Romania. Yesterday, the fact of 15 million has been said. 15 million would be the population of Romania in 2015. Because of two reasons: lake a baby, and, emigration.

But I'm not personnaly sure that arriving in EU will make every body coming in GB or other countries. It will happen, but from what I can see, is that since few years theren the salaries are getting higher and higher. or that would be the main reasons why people would leave their country.
So I guess, the working conditions would't be in few years a reason of imigration.

But this is gonna make the inflation going higher as well...And dig the inegality....Already now there are huge differences between poor and rich. And it's not gonna be stopped with the EU.

In the argriculture :
In romania the majority of the agricultors own small land. What will they become? like in France, only the bigger will survive?
People are afraid in the small village because the EU want them to leave their 3 or 4 chickens....

There is definitely good things and less good for romania, as for the EU. People there are happy to be acceptedin the EU, but we all know that Romania has still a lot to do to reach the Eu standards.

Jules/