The general goal of this paper is to study senior Romanian citizens’ EU attitudes after ten years of European membership, with a special focus on the unsolved tension between the instrumental and symbolic perspectives. By looking at the present context, the purpose of this research is to assess the challenges and transformations of the EU-related opinions and support of traditional euro-enthusiastic citizens in times of vulnerability and struggling economies. Equally, the paper favours a future-oriented view, and puts under scrutiny people’s expectations and evaluations of the future developments of the EU and their consequences at personal, national and supra-national level.

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老年人和欧洲联盟。罗马尼亚视角

本文的总体目标是研究在加入欧洲十年后罗马尼亚高级公民在欧盟的态度，并特别关注工具性和象征性观点之间尚未解决的紧张关系。通过研究当前的情况，本研究的目的是评估在脆弱和经济困难时期，与欧盟有关的意见以及传统的欧洲热情公民的支持所面临的挑战和转变。同样，本文赞成以未来为导向的观点，并对人们对欧盟未来发展及其在个人，国家和超国家层面上的后果的期望和评估进行审查。