Originally Posted by
Cybele
The question about the economic impact of the union and how that affects our countries financially, is totally valid imo. Because one has to talk about these practical aspects too. In South Korea, they have a Ministry of Unification in charge of developing plans on different issues like: infrastructure, economy, education, health, culture with a view in the unification of the two Koreas. To my knowledge there are no such governmental departments in Romania or R.of Moldova, to seriously think and discuss union. As a bigger country, Romania should probably take charge of this. But Moldovans should give their feedback (if they're really interested) and approve in majority for the union to happen (currently the percentage is under 50%).
Unification means that Romania commits to pay equal salaries, allowances, pensions and so on, for its citizens from both sides of the Prut river. Commits to develop equally the hospitals, schools, roads...
At the moment there are problems in all these sectors in Romania, so how would we handle to bring more people to our level (and that in maybe 20 years), which is already not the best? We haven't even sorted our own problems.
And our part of Moldova is already less developed than other regions, with less investments and higher rates of poverty in certain counties. And our Moldova region has been part of the country for a long time already. I believe Iasi county is the only one, which is doing best in the region.
We have to think the issue on all sides, not only based on emotions (talking about emotions: I don't even know if the feelings of brotherhood are so strong even).