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** FILE ** Romanian witch Mihaela Minca holds cards during an interview with the Associated Press in January 2011 in Mogosoaia, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
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Under Secretary General Nicolae Ceausescu's 25-year dictatorship, all of Romania was a monument to his greatness.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Workers collect cucumbers for disposal at a greenhouse outside Bucharest, Romania, on Monday. Producers destroyed thousands of tons of cucumbers in Europe over the past two days in reaction to the E. coli outbreak.
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Queen witch Mihaela Minca (left), followed by apprentices Ana, Melisa, Esmeralda, Casanndra and Alice, performs a Valentine's Day ritual in Mogosoaia, Romania, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. The witches' ceremony is crafted to help people find true love. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Members of the Lipovan ethnic Russian community attend a Christmas religious service in Carcaliu, eastern Romania, early Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox Christians in Eastern Orthodox churches that use the Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian witch Mihaela Minca (right) speaks with the Associated Press as her daughter and apprentice, Casanndra, looks on in Mogosoaia, Romania, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Trouble is brewing for Romania's witches, whose toil is being taxed for the first time despite their threats of putting curses on the government. Also being taxed for the first time are fortune tellers, who probably saw the taxation coming. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Italy's Mario Balotelli is controlls the ball during their international friendly soccer match against Romania in Klagenfurt, Austria, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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Italy's Mario Barwuah Balotelli ,right, challange for the ball with Romania's Gabriel Torje during the international friendly soccer match between Italy and Romania in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
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Mourners stand around the coffin of Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu at the Writers Union in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Paunescu, Romania's most famous poet who praised ex dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, yet whose sentimental verse struck a chord with many Romanians has died. He was 67.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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An Orthodox priest sings as mourners stand around the coffin of Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu at the Writers Union in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Paunescu, Romania's most famous poet who praised ex dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, yet whose sentimental verse struck a chord with many Romanians has died. He was 67.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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In this picture taken on May 5, 2008 Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu gestures in Bucharest, Romania. Paunescu, Romania's most famous poet who praised ex dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, yet whose sentimental verse struck a chord with many Romanians has died. He was 67. (AP Photo/Agerpres/Paul Buciuta)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) speaks with Romanian President Traian Basescu during a roundtable meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. A summit of government leaders seeking to mold a united European Union front on the global stage opened in disarray over France's expulsion of Gypsies and comparisons with World War II deportations.
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Romanian Gypsy leader Iulian Radulescu on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania's pro-Nazi wartime leader following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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FILE - In this file photo of May 15, 2003 Romanian patients sit on their beds in the city hospital in Odobesti, northern Romania. No sutures and other basics; a dire shortage of staff; catastrophic hygiene; then this _ a hospital blaze that killed five premature babies. Romania's hospital system is on the ropes. Romania's hospitals were a nightmare under communism which ended in 1989. But more than two decades after communist rule was toppled and almost four years after it joined the EU, Romania remains one of Europe's poorest countries _ and the sorry state of its hospitals reflect that status. (AP Photo/Karina Knapek, File)
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A Gypsy woman carrying her baby, disembarks a bus at the Saint Exupery airport, enroute for Bucharest, Romania, in Lyon, France, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. A French Immigration Ministry official says 93 Roma are to be repatriated to their native Romania. The flights are part of a crackdown by France's conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. He has linked Gypsies, or Roma, to crime and spearheaded a campaign to dismantle their illegal camps and send some home to Eastern Europe.(AP Photo/Thomas Campagne)
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French police officers guard a bus carrying Romanian Gypsies en route to Romania at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, near Paris , Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. France has expelled nearly 139 Gypsy or Roma, from Paris's airport to their native Romania as part of a very public effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma camps and sweep them out of the country. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Police guard a group of Gypsies, disembarking from a bus at the Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport in Lyon, France, en route to Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. A French Immigration Ministry official said 93 Roma are being repatriated to their native Romania as part of a crackdown by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. He has linked Gypsies, or Roma, to crime and spearheaded a campaign to dismantle their illegal camps and send some home to Eastern Europe. (AP Photo/Thomas Campagne)
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A man holds a leaflet with a picture of the late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu as media and members of the public gather around his freshly dug-up grave in the background at the Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, at the request of their children. The top of leaflet reads: "They shot me. Do you have a better life?" (AP Photo/Octav Ganea/Mediafax)
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Media and members of the public gather around the freshly dug-up grave of the late communist dictator Nicolaie Ceausescu at the Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, at the request of their children. (AP Photo)
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A leaflet with a picture of the late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is seen on his freshly dug-up grave at the Ghencea Military Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Taking the country by surprise, forensic scientists on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, at the request of their children. The top of leaflet reads: "They shot me. Do you have a better life?" (AP Photo)
