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Romania’s Monetary Policy in Federal Europe
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Sometimes monetary policy and federalism can interact in interesting ways. To grasp a particular relation, such as that of Romania in the European Union, it is first necessary to keep in mind that monetary policy is not federalism and vice versa. An...
Romania to Sell Bonds With New Euro Deal
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Romania is seeking to raise funds in the European bond market with its first new euro deal since June last year, in a transaction likely to cost the country only slightly more than what Spain is paying for debt of a similar maturity.
Love story in the East
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TweetA heated debate on twitter the other day spurred out an interesting idea, and in many ways this post is a response to that: “nick panayotopoulos @npanayotopoulos @hferchiu Kinda confirms my hunch that GR and much of East Europe would have b...
Change: How Badly Does Romania Want It?
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"As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to know what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect." Martha Gellhorn, The Fac...
Romanian President For Summit
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Which Romanian leader gets to attend the European summit in September.
A Critique Too Far
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Article by Hannes Swoboda published on European Voice, 17 September 2012 The European Commission must do better in handling future constitutional crises than it has in the case of Romania. Read the article ...
Should Romania’s president have been impeached?
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On 29 July, a referendum was held in Romania on whether or not Traian Băsescu, the country’s president, should be impeached for abuse of powers (including allegations of wire-tapping and deploying the intelligence services against his politi...
Journalists under fire
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TIMES are tough for some journalists in Romania working for the international media. They are victims of a fierce campaign initiated by government officials and Cotidianul, a news website. The allegations of ethical and other violations are widely re...
PES Congress to be moved from Bucharest to Brussels
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Due to the political battles between the Romanian governing coalition of socialists and liberals and the conservative president, the Party of European Socialists (which sits in the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament) will move...
Despite President Traian Băsescu’s referendum ‘victory’, Romanians are continuing to lose trust in their government and governing institutions.
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At the end of July, Romanian President Traian Băsescu survived a national referendum on his dismissal, initiated by Prime Minister Victor Ponta. Clara Volintiru looks at the lead-up to the current political conflict in Romania, and finds few reasons...
Romania must remain under strict EU Surveillance
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23 years after the bloody destitution of President Ceaucesco from power and five years after joining the EU, Romania`s credentials as a fully democratic country respecting the rule of law continue to fall short of EU constitutional standards as laid...
Romania impeachment vote ruled invalid by court
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Romania's suspended President Traian Basescu will be allowed to return to the post after the country's constitutional court rules that a referendum on his impeachment was invalid...
Romania Crisis Part 2
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18889374Following on from my previous article about what the EU would actually do in response to the political crisis in Romania it seems that the action taken so far has been in the form of criticism and p...
