Romania / Calinesti / Rad Maria, 69, has been farming her entire life, and not much has changed, no one has really helped her.
During communism everyone had jobs, everyone had enough, but now that kind of stability doesn’t exist.
Romania’s entrance into the EU is, if anything, going to make their lives more complicated with more laws, regulations, and restrictions. They might no longer be able to sell the cheese they make because it won’t comply with the necessary pasteurization. They feel like there’s no justice, and there never will be. They have received some assistance that came from EU funds in order to purchase pesticide.
With all of the young people leaving the country for better opportunities, it’s too hard for them to raise animals, they are too old to do that kind of work themselves.

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