Second, in every University we learn that profits comes from cheap labor and big sell price.
cheap labor means low salaries,
the lowest salaries in Europe are in Bulgaria and Romania, yet they are still poor,
why? are investors so 'stupid'?
No.
then? Universities are teaching a lie?
No.
then?
I did not find an answer to that, I think that investors do not exist, or they care for competition much more than profit
or something else, that prohibits them,
From my perspective as a Romanian, there are many more things that an investor looks for, besides cheap labor, as:
- infrastructure (how can one transport his products when there is no decent highway?)
- bureaucracy (also regulations are always changing, so there's almost no predictability)
- corruption (if state control comes they unavoidably expect an 'envelope' from the manager, otherwise they will fine you until you come out of business)
All these add to the costs of so-called 'investors'.
I don't believe in investors any more, what most of them did here is to pay some corrupt politician to give them unlimited access to our resources (the case of the Austrian gas company OMV) or simply cheaply buy old industrial buildings, close them and then sell everything piece by piece. The entire country is full with such deserted industrial complexes.
The only really valuable thing the EU has brought is the freedom of travel (which is quite necessary as there is no work to be found in many small towns).
Other than that, everything was privatized, regardless of whether it was profitable or not. Hospitals have been shut down or they lack the most common supplies (the situation wasn't like this 10 years ago). Food has become infected with many strong pesticides, chemical fertilizers etc.
Prices have also gone up since the EU 'common market', the peasants and small farmers produce much food which rots in their yards, but in supermarkets all vegetables are brought from Spain or the Netherlands. And take into account that Romania is the second largest agricultural country in the EU, after France!
So what I hope for from European Unification?
- that it doesn't extort poor countries, and then people from Central and Wester Europe complain that there are too many immigrants. Really? Perhaps they can pay the high EU product prices with 300 Euros/month.
- that the strong economic states and the European Commision don't impose their clientele politicians on us (the case of our president Basescu, which has been saved from an impeachment of 87% of voters, by imposing an artificial referendum threshold, not stated by any national law - this was done mostly by Commision president José Barroso and German chancellor Angela Merkel)
- that it stops involving in the academic curricula (especially this nonsense with the Bologna process - reducing faculty study durations and so on)
- that it doesn't spend tons of money on programmes and institutions which are useless, and concentrates instead on more important regulations such as the banking industry, which has gone out of control (in every city you visit, useful stores disappear leaving only banks, pharmacies and mobile phone shops on every corner).