ROMANIA-

STEREOTYPES
GENERAL DATA

• Capital: Bucharest
• POPULATION: 19.96 million
• OFICIAL LANGUAGE: Romanian
• CURRENCY: Romanian Leu (1€= 4,55 LEUs)
• RELIGION: 86.8% Orthodox
 CURIOUSITIES
• “ROMANIA”- Latin word “Romanus” = “citizen of the Roman Empire”
• Oldest Cave drawings in Central and Eastern Europe (320,000 years)
• Predecessor of insulin “pancreatine” discovered by Nicolae Paulescu
• Engines used in airplanes- Henri Coanda
• Timisoara. First city in Europe with electric street-lighting (1889)
• World’s first industrial oil refinery (1857)
Real stroy of Dracula
• Real Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impales) son of Vlad
Dracul -“Demon”- was kidnapped with his two brothers by the
Ottoman Empire and he wanted to avenge his father’s death.
 MAIN STEREOTYPES
• POOR COUNTRY
• CRIME
• CORRUPTION
• MAFIA (
• REFUSE TO WORK
• NOT A TOURIST DESTINY (UGLY COUNTRY)
POOR
COUNTRY
POOR COUNTRY
• 25 years after bringing down one of the last communist European
dictatorships, Romania still has consequences.
• Nº Pensioners (5,3 million) > Nº Employed People (4,3 million)
• The “Unwanted Generation”: 25.000 children, who grew up in
orphanages as a result of the prohibition of abortion during
communism.

• Romania joined EU in 2007, and is now the second fastest-growing

economy in Europe. Low wages, cheap operating costs. Last 5 years 170
start-ups were built.
CRIME
CRIME
MAFIA
MAFIA
• Romania is considered by many experts as the ground zero “zona
cero” of European sexual exploitation.
• During 2013, 900 victims were identified as the illegal traffic, most of
them to Spain, Germany and Italy. However, experts think that the
real number is even 20 times higher.
• In Spain, 90% of begging business is controlled by Romanian Mafia.
• Bucharest is shared between 3 large Mafia Clans.
• ”Gemenii”(twins) clan : car thefts. (district 1).
• “Dudienii”: rivals of Gemenii, Prostitution and drug dealing(district 2).
• Sile Pietroi: Kidnapping, Blackmailing and violent assault (district 3)
CORRUPTION
CORRUPTION
• 9 out of 10 citizens consider corruption as a serious problem in
Romania.
• 2 out of 3 citizens admitted they bribe to speed up processes, to obtain
health attention or to guarantee a good education.
• In 2015 a music club turned into fire, uncovered one of the biggest
corruption cases in Romania.
• Mafia Clans have ties with the police

• In February 2017, after 4 days of street protests, Romanian Government

decided to avoid the decree which decriminalize corruption cases.
REFUSE TO
WORK
REFUSE TO WORK
• Romania only has 7.3%
of unemployed people.
NOT INTERESTING
COUNTRY
 NOT A TOURIST DESTINY (UGLY
COUNTRY)
The Palace of Parliament

• World’s largest and most

expensive civil
administration buliding in
the world.
• 2nd largest building in the
world, after US Pentagon.
• More than 1 million tons of
marble, steel, crystal and
wood
• http://romaniatourism.com/did-you-know.html#history
• https://qz.com/763630/one-of-the-poorest-countries-in-the-eu-could-be-its-next-tech-startup-hub/
• http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/02/11/actualidad/1486846196_930242.html
• http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/02/06/actualidad/1486406224_860059.html
• http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/02/04/actualidad/1486235333_675752.html
• http://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/spain/romania
• http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/aragon/mafia-rumana-controla-negocio-mendicidad-toda-region_97135.html
• http://www.nineoclock.ro/bucharest-under-mafia-clans-rule/
• https://www.numbeo.com/crime/country_result.jsp?country=Romania
• http://destinoinfinito.com/palacio-del-parlamento-rumano/