A German mayor for a Romanian city
By Ioan Bucuraș And it’s not Iohannis. For those of you who don’t know: Klaus Iohannis, Romania’s sitting president – an ethnic German, part of the Transylvanian Saxon minority – has been the mayor of…
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Exclusive: Romania’s future Commissioner?
By Ioan Bucuraș It’s now almost official. Luminita Odobescu, Permanent Representative of Romania to the European Union will most likely be nominated by Viorica Dancila to be the next Romanian Commissioner. This has been suggested…
Presidential Sparring: Round 1
By Ioan Bucuraș Romanians will go to the polls to elect their president on the 10th (first round) and 24th (second round) of November this year. For the first time since the fall of Communism,…
The portfolio-less summer and the jobless hopeful
By Ioan Bucuraș The first signs of an inevitably and constantly deteriorating relationship between former Romanian Commissioner Cretu and her previous party – PSD – were already visible, once some of the lead figures started…
Romania’s presidential race starts in the European Parliament
By Ioan Bucuraș It’s on. Romanian political turf wars are taking place in Brussels and are then launched in the most perspicacious of ways onto the public scene back home. Still remembering Manfred Weber?…
The Union’s Ouroboros
By Ioan Bucuraș Shots fired. The East-West divide is back, alive and kicking. Today, newly elected Conservative MEP and former Romanian President – Traian Basescu – accused Western European states of completely isolating Eastern Europe,…
Room for manoeuvre: Kövesi and Romania’s German connection
By Ioan Bucuraș Never before have the Union’s heads of state and government spent so much time negotiating the top jobs. Spitzenkandidaten process down the drain or not, the fact that these positions are being…
IANVS. Too little, too late and emerging European Federalism. Via Romania.
By Ioan Bucuraș One neck, two faces. Facing the future while looking at the past – now anchored in the present. The Roman god of duality, transitions and new beginnings, Janus (Latin IANVS) and his…
Mulțumesc, Klaus! Mulțumesc, România!
By Ioan Bucuraș “I would like to thank President Iohannis and his entire team for an energetic and successful presidency. You managed to have 90 pieces of legislation agreed in the last 100 days before…
Renewing Europe: Ciolos in pole position to become political group leader in the European Parliament
By Ioan Bucuraș No effort goes unnoticed. Or at least, that’s what one should always hope for. Just before the elections, I wrote about a possible shift of power and Romania’s European Renaissance. The results…
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