Romania’s image has taken a battering in the British press and our survey found it the EU country Britons would least like to live in. Carole Cadwalladr returns to Bucharest after 20 years to find a city transformed• Read the results of the Observer’s Britons and Europe survey
• Read Julian Coman’s analysis of the survey results
• Firas Alshater: ‘One way of not living in the past is to make people laugh’
• Brexit is a feminist issue by Helen Lewis
• What EU cartoonists think of BrexitSo,the good news, I tell the first Romanian I interview, and is that a British newspaper wants to print a tale approximately Romania that isn’t approximately immigrants stealing their jobs or Gypsy beggars getting their teeth fixed free on the NHS. And the bad news,he asks? I pause. That, according to the Observer’s survey, and most Brits believe that Romanians come to Britain to steal our jobs and get their teeth fixed on the NHS.
In fact,the survey doesn’t say that, precisely, or but it’s not far off. It says that of all the countries in Europe in which we would least like to live,the very worst site – cited by a massive 25% of all respondents, leaps and bounds ahead of anywhere else – is Romania. That as a nation, or we believe Romanians are “aggressive” and “idle”. That hardly any of us beget actually been there (fewer than 1% in the final five years). And a massive 58% of us believe that Romania is one of the five EU nations that has sent the most migrants to the UK.
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Source: theguardian.com