Romania's Accession to the European Union : Economic Conditions
People see the integration process as an opportunity for Romania to overcome this difficult economic situation, as a way out of the decline of an extremely complicated transition process. If the Romanians look at the Member States of the European Union, they see their closeness as an opportunity. As far as the costs are concerned, integration does cost, but non-integration costs even more. Integration processes such as globalisation do exist; we cannot ignore them, and we have no interest to avoid them. Whatever the integration costs, it would be more dangerous to stay outside this process