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It is a wonderful experience, Romania. Where else in this world could you wake up, turn on the radio and find about the brilliant ideas that visited the finance minister over the weekend? For the last weekend, the biggest one was that of awarding old, shabby, bumped car owners with 500 euro, to bury them. (No, in Romania there are no car cemeteries, so the burial will be a funny digging operation.) Now, the money are coming from: first enrollment tax, established by the same genius for the second hand autos coming mostly from Germany.

So, while pretty good cars aren't allowed in Romania without a tax way bigger than their price in Germany, the junks on four wheels can fill the roads with smog, fog and screws. You can buy them (at hot prices!) and enroll it again, without any tax. Just don't buy a cheap, good car from Germany! It will affect the pockets of the "local producer." And we have to protect our Fra(e)nchise economy, don't we?