When will the interest of the child be finally at the centre? The book of Roelie Post makes clear how easy this principle of the Convention on the Right of the Child is put aside. And replaced by the wishes of a few doubtful Western organisations. With this the de-institutionalisation process in Romania was frustrated and a more humane local approach of the issue hampered. Already beginning ‘90s many Romanians were ready to take children out of the orphanages, where they often lived in diar circumstances, to take them into their family. But it took years before they got this chance. And the story goes on, in other countries. What is the EU about? About the Rights of the Child, or the pressure of a doubtful Western lobby?