Allan Fisher pentru Al Jazeera - in direct de la Mioveni.

Al Jazeera a scris despre efectele crizei financiare in Romania.
In articolul de la Al Jazeera troneaza cu zvac o fotografie cu Hadrian Nascase (stiti voi... ala cu oualelele nenumarate) .

""" Almost every day for the past 15 years, Marian Florea, 52, has driven to work from his apartment in Mioveni with his wife Maria by his side.

They had jobs at a car parts plant on the edge of town, 130km northwest of Bucharest. They took pride in their work.

Marian still remembers the factory owner telling staff that not only were their jobs guaranteed but their children would work there too.

He thought he would have a job for life, but he was wrong. (...) "We were worried about our jobs, all 250 of us. We knew about the problems in America, but no one told us we were in crisis," says Marian.(...)

Two days later, as they walked into work, they were handed another letter.

It said: "The General Manager invites you to attend an organised meeting with the purpose to help re-orientate your professional career and to find a new job."

"We knew then it was definite, nothing would save us," says Maria. (...)

Last year, Romania was considered Europe's fastest-growing economy; now it is its most vulnerable.

The country's fortunes turned because people accumulated debt in euros; now that their own currency is worth less, it has become harder for them to pay back what they owe.

Add that to high levels of public debt, and you have an economy in trouble.

A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, to discuss a possible bailout; the figure most heard around town is to the order of $25bn. (...) """

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