Hm, given the evelopments of my timeline (long story), I wonder whether we could get a potential post-WWI government (or even pre-WWI, that would be even better) that adopts something of a reformist approach in the coming decades. Not exactly solve everything with fairy dust, but still allow enough space for Romania to industrialise a bit more than in OTL during this period.
The Liberals favoured an industrialization but they wanted it to be done through,local means.And The National Peasants' Party favoured an development the agriculture with the help of forging capital.
But since the liberals where in power for most of the time just relax there policy regarding foreign capital.
Another measure would have been for Romania to realise that is Germany how needed here agriculture products and not France,the idea been that Germany needs potatoes and Romania needs tractors.The idea is that Germany helps Romania industrializes and Romania provides food to Germany,with the added benefice that the extremist in both country would have a header time convincing voters.Another think don't send the gold to Russia during WWI and don't blow all the oil wells.
Concurrently with that, also carry out some (at least basic/essential) electoral and economic reforms that could then treacle over into social developments in the country.
Just have Ion I.C. Bratianu respect as much of the Alba Iulia resolution as possible ,of course a Romania that would have adopted a constitution based on the resolution would have been more decentralized nation more Germany then France ,but another effect and problaby the reason why Ion I.C. Bratianu did not take to much in to consideration would have been that his power would have diminished
- Full national freedom for all the co-inhabiting peoples. Each people will study, manage and judge in its own language by individual of its own stock and each people will get the right to be represented in the law bodies and to govern the country in accordance with the number of its people.
- Equal rights and full autonomous religious freedom for all the religions in the State.
- Full democratic system in all the realms of public life. Suffrage universal, direct, equal, secret, in each commune, proportionally, for both sexes, 21 years old at the representation in communes, counties or parliament.
- Full freedom of the press, association and meeting, free propaganda of all human thoughts.
- Radical agrarian reform. All the assets, above all the big ones, will be inscribed. The wills by which the heir consigns the land to a third party will be abolished; meanwhile, on the basis of the right to cut down estates freely, the peasant will be able to his own property (ploughing land, pasture, forest), at least one for him and his family to labour on. The guiding principle of this agrarian policy is promoting social evening, on the one hand, and giving force to production, on the other.
- The industrial workers will be granted the same rights and privileges that are in force in the most advanced western industrial states.
How much of an influence did the Romanian royal family have on the government during WWI and after ?
Lets just say that government belonged to on I.C. Bratianu.
The political adversaries of Ion I.C. Bratianu give him nicknames like Vizier, the Sultan, Pharaoh.
