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What happens in Romania these days

6 February 2017

On December 11 2016, Romania had parliamentary elections. Our political system works like this: the party with most elect senators and deputats propose someone to be the Prime Minister to the President, who says yes or no. If it’s a yes, that person forms the Cabinet and starts ruling. So, PSD (Social Democrat Party) won 45%, they enlisted […]

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We want change, but not really

25 November 2016

People are somewhat surprised that the presidential candidate with most votes, Hillary Clinton, will not be president. 2 million votes more and the loser of the elections will be president, because of the electoral votes and all that. They forgot the same thing happened in 2000, when Al Gore lost to George Bush. Gore had more votes, […]

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An explanation about Antena3 and our weak politicians

21 February 2016

These days, a media trust fights eviction, but they don’t fight just that. “Intact” fights the state, the politicians and common sense.   A little bit of history Intact Media Trust was founded by Dan Voiculescu, a businessman emerged from the old Securitate. In his autobiography, we find two interesting facts about his wealth: he […]

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The Russians are coming!

3 March 2014

Russia invaded, sort of, Crimea. A peninsula it belonged to so many empires nobody ever owned it. The reason for this is Sevastopol, a city Russia has stationed a large portion of it’s naval army. They were not gonna let the new Ukraine government to take over that. So they just moved in. Problems ensured […]

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Riots in Romania – January 2012

16 January 2012

Last night, in Bucharest it was hell. Young people fought with the police, threw stones, torched a car and broke windows. This is unusual for Romania, but it’s usual for the people doing it, because there are two types of people protesting: the football hooligans and the normal people. Unfortunately, the protest aimed at overthrowing […]

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why are the people rebelling?

29 January 2011

For a few days now Egypt has had a revolution going. People took the street to protest against the government and the president, who has been in that chair since 1981. Basically, we have the beginning of a world hunger crisis. The people would be happy to have food and would not care if the […]

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Downhill for Romania

27 June 2010

Instead of action, we get a lot of talk and a lot of putting away measures that could save the country from recession. And we are on our way of becoming worse than Greece. Just because we can.

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Traian Basescu, president of Romania

7 December 2009

He granted me a 30-minute interview (in Romanian). He is not that much into social media, but he won the 2004 elections being very cool and loose, as opposed to an uptight Adrian Năstase, his opponent. I am not the first blogger to interview him, but i am the first that got to him by […]

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wrong moves

27 November 2009

The political campaign for Romanian Presidency has turned ugly. A 2004 recording in which the president Băsescu is hitting a child has been made public. It’s wrong.It does not matter if it’s true or not. It’s wrong to keep it hidden for 5 years and float it now, like it just happened. And yes, i […]

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Election failure

1 December 2008

Urban Iulian, known and fined Romanian spammer, is now a senator in the Parliament of Romania. Great day for democracy, indeed.

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