Bogdan Prelipcean used his earliest paychecks to help his parents build an indoor bathroom.
A decade-and-a-half later, the 33-year-old Romanian has a new-build apartment, two cars and a motorcycle.
That transformation is the result of something that more than 100 million people in eastern Europe have been dreaming of since the fall of the Iron Curtain: European Union membership made his country rich.
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