Romania is a pre-accession candicate. That means that negotiations between EU and Romania started in Febrary 2000, after that Romania submitted its application for EU membership in June 1995.
Romania's objective is EU membership in 2007.

(census 2002)
21.7 million inhabitants

Romanian: 89.5%
Hungarian: 6.6%
Roma: 2.5%
German: 0.3%
Ukranian: 0.3%
Serbian: 0.1%
Turkish: 0.2%
Tartar: 0.1%
Slovakian: 0.1%
Jewish *
Russian/Lipovan: 0.2%

The national hymn

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