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meaning of spending the funds received from the European Union. The other two medium-sized cities are
characterized by massive depopulation, the lack of new investments and significant economic activity,
with only services and some construction activities being noticed and have no certain strategy to change
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the bad fortunes.

Finally, the small-sized cities are also the least fortuned in our analysis, many being founded or lived with
only a large industrial facility dominating the city, which, in most cases collapsed quickly after 1990's.

Currently, as identified by the facts above, these cities must carefully choose a single domain or industry
on which to invest all its human and material resources, is order to ensure a sustained development on

medium and long term. One good example is Negresti-Oas, that invested heavily in the tourism sector,
after losing almost all its industrial basis after 1990's. Second in line would be Cernavoda, an old city that
thrived only because the country's only nuclear facility was built there, all the city's businesses surviving

on the nuclear power plant's shoulders.

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