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Romania's winter of discontent
The protestors aren't ready to go home yet...
Romania – a revolution for evolution ?
It’s been a week already since the beginning of protests in Romania. Every day in Bucharest and in over 40 cities more Romanians go to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the abuses of ruling regime and calling for … Continu...
Romania's politicians must reconnect with reality | Cristian Cercel
Protests in a normally apathetic nation are still being ignored by Romania's government and given little support by the oppositionIn the 22 years that have elapsed since the fall of the Ceaușescu regime in Romania, free market and privatisation have...
Teodor Baconschi and Media Responsibility
The Romanian Foreign Minister, Teodor Baconschi, gave the keynote address at this morning’s Bucharest AEJ Congress session on ‘Freedom and Responsibility in the Mass Media’, though his remarks were so brief that they served more as...
Dutch bouquet of flowers rebuffed
Flowers are the traditional way to say “I love you”. But in European Union etiquette, they can just as well be the side-product of a political spat. Romanian authorities this week-end blocked six trucks filled with flowers from the Netherlands, &...
‘Bacteria’ is consuming Schengen
Romania has blocked imports of Dutch flowers and bulbs. Oficially the national phytosanitary agency is checking them on suspicions they may contain a mysterious bacteria… Well, not so mysterious, in fact. Bucharest obviously tries to send a mes...
A Schengen plan for Bulgaria and Romania
Later this week the European Commission will put forward its plan to reform the passport-free Schengen area, as we detailed in our paper edition some weeks ago, and again today. But its proposals won’t address what to do about Bulgaria …Conti...
The (Un)Importance of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism
The new set of reports under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) for Bulgaria and Romania were published by the Commission. The mechanism is used by the Commission to monitor the progress of both countries in the fields of judicial ̷...
Romania and Bulgaria, the R&B countries
We were already familiar with PIGS, that is, the faltering and overspending Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. Now here is a new acronym. People from the inner circle of Former Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn say he used to call Romania and Bulgar...
Romania’s clumsy way to Schengen
Four years after its accession to the EU, Romania is facing its first big test: the accession to the Schengen zone. Part of the accession treaty, but conditioned by the fulfilment of clear technical criteria regarding border management and security,...
Schengen Wars
After France and Germany sent a letter to the EU opposing the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen zone (a decision each Schengen member state has a veto on), Romania has hit back with suggestions that it will delay Croatian accession (o...
A Close Look at Romania’s GDP Figures Reveals Gloomy Prospects
The night is always darkest just before dawn...And its getting pretty dark for the Romanian economy as the EU newcomer's worst recession in 60 years deepened in the third quarter.
Where did all the Romanian doctors and French med students go?
Mobility within the European Union also applies to the medical sphere, resulting in a freedom which leads to problems as well as advantages. Celia Laherre on the failings of medicine without borders...
How not to run a country
Romania's policy-making process is utterly dysfunctional, says the World Bank...
Un calendar pentru alegerile primare europene
Dan Luca is the President of the Romanian Social Democratic Party section in Brussels. He also writes a blog at casaeuropei.blogspot.com where he discusses European and Romanian politics. In an article entitled "Un calendar pentru alegerile primare e...
'Come to Romania': quest to brand Bucharest
Forging a skate culture, redesigning lei banknotes and offering a story to tourists, aside from the palace of parliament hotspot, the result of dictator Ceaucescu's tearing down a third of the city in communist times. These are just some of the ideas...
