With Nokia, Romania catches up to the west

People called it "caravan capitalism," when Nokia announced it would close its factory in Bochum and move production to Romania. Germans were incensed, Romanians ecstatic. Luca Niculescu writes: "The Romanians should understand that they may be needed today but can also be cut loose tomorrow. Factories can be shifted to even cheaper countries, if production costs climb too high. There may well come a time in which we have to seriously consider a 'social Europe' with uniform taxes and working conditions. To reach that goal, the new EU countries have to overcome the economic differences that divide them from the west. Nokia will help us catch up."

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