| dc.description.abstract | By the end of 2009, a very cold breath of austerity was blowing from the European
financial and banking system and thoroughly was touching every Member State’s
economy, but only for some of them perspective of this severe situation is called
bankruptcy frequently. By the spring of this year (2010 – author’s note), Greece’s
financial problems set all the Europeans governments on fire and, according on the most
worrying news alerts, Germany was terribly angry and eager to treat this country as an
undisciplined schoolchild. Many and heavy financial disasters are forecast for other
countries as well, and it seems that Spain’s, Portugal’s or Italy’s Mediterranean structure
and behaviour would be the reason, since these countries are in pretty identical trouble
just like Greece. The ex-communist recently EU Member States, that are united into the
so-called platoon of the emergent economies, rapidly detected their own vulnerabilities
and their well-known resources leakages. Then, in the old-time verified and practiced
tradition of “cuts and poverty under oppression” which communism taught them well,
they were abruptly compelled to conform and to adopt dreadful austerity measures.
Although among them, Romania is again a special case, taking into account but the
heavy burden of the 80’s unbelievable sacrifices and privations, which the population
endured because of the totalitarian decision of paying its whole debt. The paper reveals
and analyses that, despite the actual context and the political circumstances which are
totally different, Romania applied an unprecedentedly severe plan of cuts and
privations, installing a general and bitter sensation of déjà-vu, instead of living and
feeling the European membership status! | en_US |
