Cel mai recent raport al ECFR, la care am contribuit, ‘Welcome to Barbieland: European sentiment in the year of wars and elections’ mentioneaza, din pacate, Romania, aproape exclusiv prin prisma cresterii euroscepticismului, a resentimentelor și sentimentelor de superioritate fata de Occident:

„over 35% of people in Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Bulgaria believe their country could better face the future outside the EU – while only a fifth or less share a similar feeling in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland […] not only might many people and governments in central and Eastern Europe feel vindicated, but they may now also claim the right to moral leadership in the EU” (deja o sursa importanta a narativelor nationalist-populiste in Romania de multi ani)

„…a plurality of over 30% (in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), or even an absolute majority (in Slovenia), look on the EU with ‘distrust’…”

„In Romania, it appears that young people have voted disproportionately for the far-right parties – but also for an independent ecologist, Nicolae Stefanuta”

Și avem și o mentiune a uneia dintre posibilele cauze: „Some countries (including Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Croatia) have suffered a major outflow of the national population […] Over 3 million Romanians (16% of the country’s population) now reside in other EU member states”