Social Issues within Eastern Europe Throughout Eastern Europe there’s many countries that extreme poverty, for example Romania is considered to be one of the Eastern European countries. Since the country experiences poverty,they tend to have a bigger wealth gap which means the poor people in the country won’t be able to survive with the amount of money they receive or have. Since romania is the poorest country in Europe they don't get benefits like the other countries do. Eastern Europe experiences corruption against minorities, which causes feuds between two different types of people with different beliefs. Education is another social issue in Europe, since some countries experience poverty some citizens don't get the education they deserve,causing them to not have better jobs they can survive from.