Why does this happen?

[Bsharp]

I believe that if you puppet (or annex) Romania, you don't have this problem?

 

[208]

This is very annoying. I had to stop most of my Southern army group at the beginning of Barbarossa because the spoils were going to Romania and Hungary. I've no problem with Romania getting Bessarabia back, but after that, the provinces should get grey stripes and become part of the great Reich!

That would make playing as Romania very annoying and practically pointless.

 

[Oof]

...and that it will be fixed in FTM.

Its not broken. There are numerous threads from players complaining about the Italians obtaining France after the surrender, but the problem is always the same: the Italians are called in to early and they manage to conquer more French provinces and some major VP cities in the South. Most players just forget that with the French army busy in the North, the South is only lightly defended...so it’s a walk over for the Italians once they manage to create a breakthrough.