It is not often that Romania’s image is associated with positive things. That is why I was nicely surprised to see Transylvania and the Carpathians featured both in the Financial Times (here) and on Travel Channel (video below), all in the last couple of months. What is even more important is that both reports, beyond [...]
The European Institute for Participative Democracy (Qvorum) published today a study on the activity of Romanian MEPs in a one year period (January 2008- February 2009) during their current mandate. The goal of the NGOs study is two-fold: on the one hand, to look into how the MEPs contributed, through their activity, to stimulating participative [...]
In the aftermath of the report issued by the European Commission on the Romanian justice system and fight against corruption, many comments and interpretations have emerged in the Romanian press . This was to be expected. One of the most prominent debates stirred by the report these days is about the re-confirmation of Daniel Morar [...]
Today the European Commission released the monitoring reports on Romania and Bulgaria, foreseen by the “cooperation and verification mechanism”. On the whole, not many surprises: the rough tone that was expected, telling off the two countries for the very small (if existing) progress regarding judicial reform and fight against corruption. This time, Bulgaria is more [...]
A short reminder for the European Commission that will issue the progress report for Romania next week, dealing with the progress made in judicial reform and the fight against corruption … safeguard clauses, anyone? (check here for the so called Cooperation and Verification Mechanism) Click here to watch the video. (Hat tip to The Short [...]
Russia Blog: The Misconception of Russian Authoritarianism This looks interesting. Don’t forget the other 5 parts! “Kevin Cyron, an American living in the Russian Federation who recently graduated with a Masters degree in Sociology from St. Petersburg State University, has agreed to Russia Blog publishing his thesis titled, “The Misconception of Russian Authoritarianism (doc)“. Continental [...]
The Financial Times has a very accurate analysis of the state of politics in Romania: One word probably best describes the political process in Romania, little more than a year after the country joined the European Union. It is dysfunctional. A minority government is forced to scrape together a spendthrift budget with the erratic support [...]
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After all the political scandals in Romania, it becomes clear that only a new constitution can bring the much needed reform to the country. But first lets look at some problems that the country is facing: It seems that, after EU accession, reform willingness has somewhat disappeared. This can be seen as a result of [...]
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