New laws, no explanations.

That seems to happen a lot in Romania. Or, maybe I should say, in the area of Romania where I live. Once EU *bliss*, along with the specific size that each cucumber needs to be, came to town it seems to have created more confusion than ever before. I know, I know, it's been well over a year but I was thinking about this a lot today.
What the EU seems to have overlooked is that the EU rights have not been explained through laws clearly enough. For example, all EU residents have the right to residency in any other EU country. So, every person on my team here who is from Sweden and the UK has received Romanian residency, no questions asked, within 30 days of applying. Now, if you were to ask ANY of the police chiefs in Oradea (the city closest to us) what this residency actually means...NO ONE can tell you. And, I really mean that, NO ONE. For us, we want to know if that means these people can adopt. Which, would mean, that Romania has sort of opened up international adoptions...to a point that is. They are handing out these EU residency documents left and right like candy at a parade but no one knows what they are and what they really mean. You would think, that if they were handing out residency that they would also know the rights that this level of residency allows. You would think that the EU would have done a proper job of explaining and training the Romanian Police that work with foreigners what the heck they were giving out. Yes, you would think... Of course, this isn't the case. Now the question has gone 12 hours by train to Bucuresti where we are all waiting now for "Bucuresti to write some laws concerning this and then we'll all know what exactly is and isn't allowed with this level of residency."
Huh.
The laws have to be written already because other Europeans have been doing this in other European countries for years now. One thing I do know about the EU is that they pride themselves on everything being exactly the same. As I mentioned before this involves cucumbers, the size of strawberries and residency.
So, how did Romania get left out of the loop? And, honestly, what are these poor rural farmers going to do when the laws on fruit and vegetable sizes start being enforced at our Friday outdoor market?