The Romanians from Transylvania speak very slowly.

Approximately 96.6 of the population of Bucharest are Romanians.

According to surveys, about 90 of Romanians backed NATO membership.

In 1881 he became Carol I, King of the Romanians.

Romanians seem divided over the two main options available euthanasia or sterilization.

Too many dictatorships have accustomed Romanians with habits of obedience, conformity and irresponsibility.

Too many dictatorships have accustomed Romanians with habits of obedience, conformity and irresponsibility.

Of course, most Romanians are Greek Orthodox, as Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians and Russians are.

Would Romanians have found the courage to rise against Nicolae Ceausescu a month later?

On the opposite side, Nicolae Pascaru asked Did the Russians invade us or did the Romanians betray us? He answered his own question by saying that the Romanians were traitors and they remain traitors.

So now Bulgarians are beginning to blame Romanians for keeping them out in the cold.

Hungarians and Romanians, after nine centuries of hatred and wars, are embarking on the same process.

Many Romanians compare Kosovo with Transylvania, where ethnic Hungarians make up the majority of the population.

We don t want the Romanians deciding on how we should order our lives, a Dutch professor complained.

So, the argument goes, Romanians must join with the Serbs and Russians in an anti Western front.

So it seems to most Romanians not only preposterous, but immoral , for the EU to care so much for a pig's last moments of life when it seems to care so little for the everyday life of ordinary Romanians.

Hundreds of thousands of Romanians cheered President Bush as he welcomed us into NATO, and we meant it.

Although 73 of Romanians approve of entering NATO, less than 20 agree with Romanian participation in a war against Iraq.

France, among others, is concerned about antagonizing Romanians, perhaps the only people in Eastern Europe who take their diplomatic cues from Paris.

Some 70 of Romanians reportedly now claim to regret the death of Comrade Nicolae Ceauşescu, whose summary execution in 1989 elicited general enthusiasm.

Everyone knows, of course, that this means that the Germans want to keep the Romanians waiting at the EU gate as long as possible.

Moreover, unlike the Serbs or Bulgarians, Romanians have always perceived Russia as their arch enemy, sentiments made white hot up during the communist era.

But perhaps before we Romanians are asked to establish animal rights, we should told to pay more attention to ensuring respect for our own.

Within the first year of Romania s accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.

The Dutch professor who fears that Romanians may start to order his life might reflect that Romania itself is changing as a result of EU membership.

It will happen, I hope, also in other places and not only with Romanians but with all the people ready to face the provocations of our time.

Collective punishment also means not only a type of amnesia by Italians and Romanians about what happened under fascism, nazism, communism, but also for their own national histories.

The number of unregistered Romanians is difficult to estimate, but the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network suggested in 2007 that there might have been half a million or more.

According to surveys, about 90 of Romanians backed NATO membership. Most newspapers and broadcast media enthusiastically welcomed the prospect of NATO enlargement in the hope that Romania would be invited into the club.

As economic pressures drive Romanians to emigrate, however, the struggle to redraw the treasured albeit at times idealized emotional space occupied by notions of family is likely to continue for quite some time.

This scale of population shift is unparalleled in the country s history, and the exodus of Romanians has been a topic of great alarm and concern for both our society and state authorities these last several years.

Other significant groups have identified themselves as belonging to the nationality of Russians (17.3 ), Belarusians (0.6 ), Moldovans (0.5 ), Crimean Tatars (0.5 ), Bulgarians (0.4 ), Hungarians (0.3 ), Romanians (0.3 ), Poles (0.3 ), Jews (0.2 ), Armenians (0.2 ), Greeks (0.2 ) and Tatars (0.2 ).

New poll shows over one third of the Romanians (34,7 ) believe stray dogs have to be sterilized and placed in shelters, 31,8 say they should be adopted or euthanized, while 25 say the solution for stray dogs is euthanasia.