Politics without economy
The Parliament is a continuous battlefield. The Liberals and the Social-democrats leave the plenary sitting hall whenever Speaker Roberta Anastase chairs a session. Two months...
Category : EDITORIAL
The burden of too many choices
The Liberals are suspected of playing at both ends. On one hand, they are attempting to consolidate the unity of the opposition in order to...
The Isarescu enigma
The governor of the central bank is a self-restrained person. For years, the gentleman has managed to keep himself detached from the tumultuous political realities....
A cultural phenomenon of the Ceausescu age
Adrian Paunescu is remembered by most of the people who knew him as a poet. An extremely prolific poet, gifted with the skill of improvisation...
Their ideas, our mistakes
What is a subordinate’s relationship with his supervisor in Romania? There is a very well-known adage that one goes to see his boss with his...
Intellectuals of character
‘Maybe Romanians won’t want a player-president like myself, maybe they will want an intellectual with foresight’. This is how Traian Basescu propelled Teodor Baconschi towards...
Responsibility for crisis vs. crisis of responsibility
Agerpres has recently issued a piece of news that is quite defining of the developments in Romania in the course of 2010: in short, we...
PSD – on a new path?
PSD plays the card of early elections, if the no-confidence motion passes in Parliament. In this case, even voices of the ruling coalition are in...
Always surprising
President Traian Basescu’s every political appearance, either in the mass-media or at some rally where he drops seemingly parenthetic remarks, manages to set in motion...
Useless scandals
Romanian politics are in ebullition. Almost each day we learn about a new row – either in Parliament, at the Presidency or within a party....
