Are we? One thing is for sure: We are no ally of Serbs like Milosevic, Karadzic or Mladic since we learned out of our bloody and idiotic alliances with Hitler and Stalin.
It is up to Serbia in the long run if it wants to be a member in the civilized word or not. You are free to do whatever you want since you lost your ability to subjugate your neighbors. Serbia is no threat anymore and if it continues to act like it acts in the moment it will never be a threat again.
Concidering Romania... lik this... statistic is such a fine art.. Rich people are eating sausages, poor are eating beans, but, statistics says that Romanians are eating Beans with sausages- in average... :)
After all I am eating rump steak. ;)
Seriously - I have been to Romania last November doing some business there. My impression is that their economy is in a sharp upward movement. Although I am mainly employed as a architect and a civil engineer for a city council here in south-western Germany I still do some private business for the company of my family. In this coherence I sold lots of heavy construction machinery to Romania over the past decade and I was able to watch the development there. There is still lots of corruption and the ordinary people have many difficulties, but it has gotten much better. In the moment they still earn simply too little to make a worthy living. Nevertheless there is some light on the end of the road, since the country is in a boom.
Simply read the CIA-factbook:
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Romania began the transition from Communism in 1989 with a largely obsolete industrial base and a pattern of output unsuited to the country's needs. The country emerged in 2000 from a punishing three-year recession thanks to strong demand in EU export markets. Despite the global slowdown in 2001-02, strong domestic activity in construction, agriculture, and consumption have kept GDP growth above 4%. However, macroeconomic gains have only recently started to spur creation of a middle class and address Romania's widespread poverty, while corruption and red tape continue to handicap the business environment. Romanian government confidence in continuing disinflation was underscored by its currency revaluation in 2005, making 10,000 "old" lei equal 1 "new" leu. The economy grew at 6.4% in 2006, the strongest growth in the last decade. Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, and the IMF has praised the country's recent reform efforts in preparation for EU accession.
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If there would be not the EU as a market for Romanian goods there would be no boom either in Romania. Therefore we can say that Romania has a immense benefit from its EU-membership. Love it or hate it.
We all know that the economy is much worse in Serbia. This is no wonder due to 10 years of Milosevic mismanagement, the lost war against NATO and the lack of markets for Serbian goods. Most of the country is completely dependable from money send by Serbian expats that live in Germany. Your provinces try to leave "Jugoslavia" behind. And I am not only talking about the old "Jugoslavia". Montenegro left and Kosovo might leave soon.
As I said - your problems are completely self-made. We Europeans are forced to secure your former war zones. That costs us money and material. Even a few of your soldiers lost their lives because of your BS. Therefore you are well advised to shut up about the "evil" EU. Even if you Serbs ever will stand on your own feet again one fine day you will be completely dependable to the access to our EU domestic market (If you think that you can do without the EU, simply ask Putin for help. Have fun!).
Man, we in Serbia were under embargo, civil war,NATO war, and after all our economy is better than Romanian!
Figures on paper are showing that Romania is doing just great!
But so did ENRONs papers....