romania and. within days the army switch sides and all of a sudden he opens the door no more interrogations and he's a free man. was executed and eventually becomes a european member of parliament. wow talk about having 9 lives almost well you mentioned the european parliament romania of course now is a full fledged member of the european union has come a long way from its dark past that you just outlined this seminal moment in its history how is it doing the wounds are still open are there challenges. give us an update a lot of people think that the people who are responsible for a lot of the injustices in the country i was just to have not being taken to task are not have not being made accountable yet and also there's 2 major problems still in the country one is the population at least 3000000 if not 4000000 have left remaining to work in the west because of the low salaries in romania so they're in spain especially in spain in italy in germany in england and there's. sign that they're coming back to remain that's one problem the other problem and this is people are very sensitive about this is there's a culture of graft a culture of corruption in romania and so people are d

european member of parliament. laila: wow, talk about having nine lives almost. romania, of course, is a full-fledged member of the european union. it has come a long way from its dark past that you just outlined, this seminal moment in its history. how is it doing? are there challenges? give us an update. arpad: a lot of people think a lot of the people responsible for the injustices in the country have not been taken to task or made accountable yet. also, there's two major problems still in the country -- one is depopulation. at least 3 million if not 4 million have left romania to work in the west, especially in romania, and germany, in england, and there's no sign they are coming back. that's one problem. the other problem -- and people are veryry sensitive about this- is the culture of corruption in romania, so people are desperate to try to find honest politicians who will deliver what they promise, and there have been countless demonstrations about corruptions going on. they came to bucharest a number of times to protest about this horrendous situation. dissident