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Yes, both Hungarians and Romanians "broke the rules". I am surprised that Europeans equate the reduction of Romanian control with an annexation into Hungary. Most young Hungarians and the Hungarian government don't want that, it would only import the ethnic problems back into Hungary.
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I =/= Europe. And I do not believe most Europeans would agree with me.
In most cases "reduction of control" has been used as a blatant euphemism for annexation. What does "reduction of control" then mean? Autonomy for Transylvania within Romania?
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Economic measures against Romania and its exclusion from the EU would only increase its racist tendencies and corruption. Also, Romania's cheap labor market is a destination to outsource EU jobs to. So, like in Asia, economic measures may not work against them.
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Romania needs European economic aid. They are not trying to join because EU membership sounds nice. Corruption and severe poverty are very real concerns.
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I was not clear when I wrote to reduce Romanian control. I meant that the EU would not only monitor the Romanian judiciary, law enforcement, and school curriculum in Transylvania, but rather replace it with the experienced EU executives, this way the EU would establish a tradition of law there that Romania never had. (This could be financed from Transylvanian income taxes.) I'm afraid, if the EU does not do anything drastic, then the patterns of the Romanian behavior will only keep repeating themselves.
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EU monitors? Never going to happen.
You still haven't given anything beyond your word that there actually
is a problem of that scale in Romania.
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Does this seem go too far from the EU point of view?
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There is no EU point of view. Beyond vague ideas of fostering economic and democratic growth. The EU is primarily economic, not political. People continue to fail to make this distinction.
But for monitors there would have to be rampant and blatant abuse, and that would reach European newsmedia. So far, it hasn't.