Tag Archives: Romanian Politics
The Romanian face of justice
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 [...]
Posted in Romania Also tagged corruption, Daniel Morar, DNA, EU Enlargement, European Commission, European Union, justice, politics, Romania 1 Comment
Latest monitoring report on Romania- definitely not the last
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 [...]
Posted in Romania Also tagged Bulgaria, cooperation and verification mechanism, corruption, EU Enlargement, European Commission, European Union, judicial reform, politics, Romania 5 Comments
Corruption in Romania
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 [...]
Posted in Romania Also tagged Bulgaria, corruption, EU, EU Enlargement, Europe, judicial reform, Romania 3 Comments
Blogs – A new image tool for Romanian Social Democrats
Blogs are one of the latest additions to the Romanian political landscape. From a totally unknown concept, they have turned overnight in fashionable tools, a “must have” for any politician who wants to be taken seriously. In fact, most of the politicians pay small fortunes to have a blog (although most of them use free [...]
Posted in Romania Also tagged blogosphere, blogs, campaign, political blogging, political blogs, politics, psd, Romania, social media 3 Comments
Welcome back!
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: [...]
Posted in Brussels, European Debate, European Union, International Politics Also tagged blogging, EU, EU Reform, Europa, Europe, European Politics, Kaczynski, poland, Romania, UK, US Politics 1 Comment
Romania’s political mess – A mini roundup
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 [...]
Posted in Brussels, Eastern Europe, European Union, Romania Also tagged Elite, EU, Europa, Europe, European Commission, European Politics, politics, Romania, Securitatea 9 Comments
An introduction to Romanian Politics
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 [...]
Posted in Brussels, Eastern Europe, European Union, Romania Also tagged Bucharest, Elite, EU, Europe, European Politics, Romania 5 Comments
A case of “Romanian uniqueness”?
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 [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Humanities & Social Sciences Also tagged Education/Universities, Europe, Romania, University Leave a comment
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