The head of the EU Delegation to Bucharest, Jonathan Scheele, said on the Romanian TV station Antena 3 on Monday that prices would not explode once Romania would join the EU and salaries would not spiral out of control either.

He said the Union sees Romania as a developing market and a factor of stability in the region.

He said, however, that corruption was very hard to tackle in Romania, especially in the field of health and education.