by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi On 2 February 1996, the associ-ation agreement between Romania and the European Union came into force. Although few people in Romania understood at the time, it represented the engagement of the Romanian economy in a way for which it was far from prepared. The following year, the trade deficit almost doubled. Economist […]

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