&#62; <i>I'm not sure we should have accepted Romania into the EU before this problem is fixed.</i><p>If I lived anywhere else, I'd have the same opinion :)<p>&#62; <i>Do you think it's helping against corruption or is any incentive now gone?</i><p>Actually, it's helping, since we are monitored and we get warnings and sanctions now and then ... one of the main concerns being corruption. I don't think that the end-result can be predicted though, we'll see ... although since we entered the EU, I can see things improving.<p>Unfortunately with this economic crisis, we're back to square one.<p>&#62; <i>it's just that EU institutions are pretty far away from EU projects and are usually terrible at detecting corruption</i><p>My impression is that they are pretty good :-) ... I've heard of reports more accurate than what is published in our media.