Romania, one of the EU’s top honey producers, lacks the processing factories it needs to ensure its output stays pure, and a loophole in EU legislation enables the use of dangerous pesticides that beekeepers and NGOs say are killing the bee population.
Dutch resistance is widely blamed for keeping Bulgaria and Romania out of Europe's border-free zone despite EU institutional acknowledgment that they're "more than ready to join."
Tens of billions of dollars' worth of gas lies right beneath CA Rosetti and a handful of other Romanian villages. But for now at least, they and more than 90 percent of the country's other rural households are stuck burning firewood.