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…
Photo: Dacian Ciolos, head of the USR/PLUS 2020 Alliance list on the campaign trail The European elections will take place exactly one month from now, on 26 May, and according to the latest projections, out…
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…
Although it holds the Council presidency, Romania remains among a number of EU countries that do not recognise the legitimacy of the auto-proclaimed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. On 31 January, The European Parliament recognized…
Political life in Romania was dominated this weekend by the fusion of the main two reformist political formations, two conglomerates that have pooled together the potential votes of the educated urban younger generations for the…
Je t’aime moi non plus… Romania has two nominally Liberal parties that are permanently at loggerheads. The smaller one (ALDE) is part of the present ruling coalition, together with the Socialists (PSD), while the other…
Let’s have a look at this picture. I took it inside the European Parliament on 12 July 2012. It shows, seated, from left to right, the (then) Romanian Socialist prime minister Victor Ponta and the…
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