The group of people on the left:

We are Romanians, we are Romanians…
The EU and the IMF:
We are still the bosses here!

In the course of its most recent visit to Bucharest on November 5, the delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demanded that the Romanian government implement a further austerity package to facilitate the reimbursement a €13bn loan contracted in 2009.
Measures in the package include an increase in the price of fuel and higher property taxes.

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