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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By Ioan Bucuraș The dust of political battles and referenda has settled (for now) and Romania’s elected MEPs and political party heads are ferociously negotiating allegiances and parliamentary committees for the next 5 years. The…
By Ioan Bucuraș When was the last time that you stood in line for something or someone, or simply to get something done, for over 6 hours? Do you remember? During Sunday’s European elections, Romanians…
By Ioan Bucuraș We have witnessed the most colourful and content-driven EU elections campaign in Romania, since it joined the bloc in 2007. The civil society, the political parties, the private sector behave according to…
By Dan Alexe This year, Romania will elect not only its future MEPs, but also, more importantly, its president. It is no wonder that Russia takes a keen interest in the outcome of the elections,…
Social engineering has deep roots in Romania, ever since the project of the late dictator Ceausescu of reshaping the New Man (omul nou), a dystopian enterprise, a nationwide socio-political project that has been successfully restarted…
In Spain, a party needs 15,000 signatures to take part in the European elections. In Romania, the threshold is the highest in Europe, set at 200,000 signatures. Parties have also to obtain a minimum of…
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