Well, since I live in Romania and have been closely following the events in the political life, I can shine some light on the subject.
The current president by the name of Traian Basescu has been chosen because at the time (in 2004) he was a much lesser of two evils. In 2009 he was re-elected again because he stole a lot of votes in the country, and a lot of votes from romanians who live in other countries (like Spain, Italy, France, etc).
His policy is simple, he blames everything on communism, and that anyone who opposes him are in one way or another a communist. The prime-minister has been elected by the president and is nothing more than a puppet. Actually the entire government are puppets of this president. The president has taken control of most of the written and televised press, including our national television. He is doing this in order to maintain power, so he can steal money from the national budget. Because the european funds cannot be stolen (I guess because of how they are given out) the president Basescu has indebted Romania to the International Monetary Fund, in 3 years by more money than in 19 years after comunism fell.
So finally, after many years, because of one free television in Romania, which has continuously analyzed and showed the truth behind what the current government is doing, which is now affiliated to CNN, the romanian people have begun to openly protest on the streets.
The government tried to intimidate and discredit the protestants, to show them as simple hulligans, by placing undercover agents in order to provoke riots. Because of this, old people were beaten, innocent people were beaten, the police forces were extremely forceful and savage.
What is there to say, although a great cold has started in Romania which has never been seen in the past 50 years here, people are still protesting peacefully across the cities of Romania.
Our crysis has nothing to do with what happens in Greece, Italy, Egypt or anywhere else, it's about the people of a country, who have been tired of being treated like stupid people by their own government. It's not much that now a lot of people live poorly, as it's about the president and puppet government not showing any kind of respect to the people who they represent.
We now want the president and the government to quit on their positions and start anticipated elections, so we can elect a new president and a new government.
