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Romania - Heaven on Earth (from Romanian raiul pe pamant) - Romania has been one of Europe's rising stars in the past decade.
The last ten years have been a wonderful period in the country's history, complete with milk and honey on the streets. This hasn't always been the case, as the
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The anti-corruption division of the Romanian police force was dismantled last week in an official ceremony, since the last corruption case was recorded in Romania three years ago. This situation has left the anti-corruption division without activity for the past few years.
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| THE ROMANIAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE |
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After Romania's Gross Domestic Product per capita reached 50.000$ last year, the Romanian government decided to hand out bonuses of 10.000$ each year to every Romanian citizen.
"This year's GDP surplus was so high that it threatened the stability of the economy", an official was quoted as saying. The
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RESERVES
As Romania's Central Bank's reserves reached extremely high levels (and no use was found for them), important sums of money were donated to poor countries in Western Europe and North America; it is
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The last remaining nostalgics of the Romanian Communist regime gathered last week to celebrate the establishment of the now abolished Romanian Communist Party. The five nostalgics remembered such fascinating communist wisdom as Art. 1 of the 1974 Constitution - "Republica Socialista Romania este stat al
oamenilor muncii de la orase si sate".
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Other interesting articles were also fondly remembered "Intreaga putere in RSR apartine poporului, liber si stapan pe soarta sa" (art.2) or "Munca este o indatorire de onoare pentru fiecare cetatean al tarii" (art.5). In the darker
days of Romania's transition from a centralized economy to a free market system, the number of nostalgics ...
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UNEMPLOYMENT
The last Romanian unemployed person was received by the President last friday, after he obtained a job as a bus driver. Romania finally reached zero unemployment rate (after recording negative rates last year).
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