Posted in Bucharest, Ludovic Orban, National Liberal Party, Politics, Romania on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a real plan of action for a Liberal mayor:
Widen the four main roads into the city
Create a new outer ring road
Build a new rail link from the centre to the main airport
Extend the underground system to the south western suburbs
Build a new airport to the south of the city
Construct new port facilities in [...]
Posted in Bucharest, Cozmin Gusa, National Liberal Party, Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
You turn your back for 10 minutes and a whole bunch of new parties appear in Romania.
Arrived in Bucharest in the middle of the local elections to discover the Popular Christian Social Union (they almost got all the bases covered there with the name and the Civic Force Party as the newest kids on [...]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on October 7, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m off to Bucaharest for a few days next month for the climax of their European Parliament elections.
But, in the meantime, the European Parties, Elections and Referendums Network has published my report on the impeachment referendum held earlier this year. If you like that sort of thing you can find it here.
Posted in Football, Norwich, Rapid Bucuresti, Romania on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gales; rain; cold, dark nights and live football on the radio - it must be August!
I cant share Norfolk Blogger’s optimism that a 0-0 draw at Preston is a good start for City’s ‘injury ravaged’ squad - it’s the first day of the season for heaven’s sake, did they all trip over their sand castles [...]
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
… and still only get 25% of the vote.
That, according to provisional results, is all that the ‘Yes’ campaign could muster in its efforts to impeach Romania’s president Traian Basescu.
Whatever else he might be, Basescu is a mighty skillful political operator with a populist touch. A skilled politician in touch with the populace - well [...]
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Hampshire Labour News” had nothing on this report about campaign tactics in Romania’s presidential impeachment referendum:
An SMS with PD leader Emil Boc as alleged sender was received on journalists’ phones over the weekend. “Basescu sees himself back in Cotroceni. Power has taken his reason. On May 19, show him you don’t want any more dictators. [...]
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who has not been following political events in Romania should read this. Gallagher over-eggs the pudding a bit in suggesting the impeachment of the president could undermine the whole of the EU but the threat to the development of Romanian democracy is real. And the most shocking fact is that the threat is being led [...]
Posted in Romania on March 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Well that’s a bit of a b*gger. I’m due to go to Romania in mid May to help the Liberals in their European Parliament elections. But I’ve just seen on EuroNews* that the (Liberal) Prime Minister has postponed the elections indefinitely…
The official excuse is an on-going constitutional dispute between the government, the opposition and the [...]
Posted in Politics, Romania, Sussex Uni on January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A weekend conference at Salford University on the EUs expansion into South Eastern Europe – the sort of event that Tabman would doubtless have us all attend as a form of intellectual National Service
A whole range of interesting speakers, papers and opinions. Some of the points that particularly caught my eye and which [...]
Posted in Politics, Romania on January 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The second issue that I wanted to rant about was reaction to the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU. I was especially disappointed by the official Lib Dem reaction to the Government decision to impose restrictions on working rights on citizens of the new EU states. As I said in a letter to [...]
