In the European Union, Romania is about as far as you can get from the UK geographically. And in Bucharest, the capital, you encounter a vision of the EU that is as far as you can get from the suspicious brooding of British eurosceptics.

To doomsayers in the UK, the accession of Romania to the EU in 2007 meant only one thing - an uncontrollable flood of unwelcome immigrants. Unsurprisingly, Romanians see the event differently.