[userulluipeste]

"when your company is doing poorly financially or is having issues it's the government that is going to pay your worker's salaries"

If true, it rather looks to me like a recipe for zombie enterprises than for healthy ones. Don't you want that, if it is to fail, to fail fast?

"New companies get a very friendly, near 0 taxation for few years, and the more people you employ (especially if young) the more slack on taxes you get. Do companies in countries with lower taxes get that?"

Romania is on lower end of all kind of taxes in the E.U., then especially new/small companies (whose turnover is lower than 1 million Euros) there is this tax option of 3% (from income) or even 1% if there is at least one employee.

Education, healthcare, and even government grants (thanks to investment & development policies in overall E.U.) were worth mentioning only in relation to U.S., as Italy does not particularly excel at any of them.