Here we go again! A (small) selection of interesting links I collected during the last few weeks: Two articles that remind us of the last couple of years in US politics: Think Progress » The legacy of Bush’s presidency & Iraq: The War Card – The Center for Public Integrity Here is an interesting article [...]
The summer break is over. Slowly, the Brussels xpat crowd is coming back from holiday. I just started deleting blog spam….it is incredible what kind of spam you get these days! It used to be only the obvious things about different medications and various operations, as well as dating opportunities…but now they started making compliments: [...]
Last week the political crisis in Romania truly escalated. A few weeks ago I posted a general introduction on the nature of politics in Romania and the fight between President Basescu and PM Tariceanu. Now, President Basescu is suspended from office and there will be a referendum on May 19 (unusual for elections: a Saturday [...]
Romania joined the EU a few months ago but not too much is known of Romanian politics in the rest of Europe. Only Vadim Tudor managed to get some press coverage in Brussels by helping to set up the Independent Tradition Sovereignty (ITS) group in the European Parliament. But nobody seems to care about what [...]
What is the problem of universities in Romania? I am sure everybody who studied in Romania could come up with some very interesting points when answering this question. At least for me the lack of basic academic approaches is more than obvious. Nobody questions the lousy teaching, the badly equipped libraries, corruption, the widely spread [...]
Thanks to Evgeny, I came across this story about Sorin Antohi. I am sure, some of you have read stuff written by him, so you might be interested in that: The immediate cause of Antohi’s exit was a line on that CV which claimed he received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Iaşi [...]
Finally I managed to see the movie with the best title ever: “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”. The movie has been described as quality trash and got a lot of controversial press coverage. For some good comments look here and here and here. In my opinion it is [...]
is obviously Bucharest. Especially when it comes to innovation and technology. Green Horizon, the quarterly magazine of the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Budapest runs an interesting story about the revival of public transport in Eastern Europe: “In Bucharest, for example, the city’s bus operator, RATB, has begun implementing sophisticated [...]


