Political

Endless source of guts!

President Traian Băsescu asked the Parliament not to influence politically the fight against corruption! After transforming the battle with corruption into its electoral forte, after politically influencing the...

More votes, less democracy

The Chamber of Deputies, while exercising the powers that all parliaments have in the democratic countries, has decided not to approve the start of prosecution against two of its members. The Chamber of Deputies,...

European Deadlock

It became a habit for the governments whose commitments are cancelled by European referendums to expect that people would be pro-European and that the refusal regarded only the texts submitted for ratification. It...

Addicted independents

According to the data from the Permanent Electoral Authority, there are 805 independent candidates for the 2008 electoral elections in Romania: 55 for the big cities, 84 for the towns and 666 for the communes....

Who Politicizes the Olympic Games?

In 1978, the communist China ended the dogmatism of the cultural revolution and started an organized transformation based on the trial to conciliate the socialism inspired by Marx and Lenin with the...

The Godfather of the political press

This week, we witnessed a show in which the Romanian media presented its limits and the cards up its sleeves. An attack against it that came from the only supplier of great political issues, President Traian Basescu,...

Political poles following local elections

Political analysts comment the regrouping of political forces following the local elections and say two weight-poles emerged: the SDP and the NLP-DP Alliance MONICA IORDACHE The will of both the Social Democrat...

The political left, the political right, and the Romanians

There is one deeply entrenched view that Romania had solid traditions regarding the right-wing political thought and was poorly represented to the left of the political spectrum. One tends to name, to that end, great...

The Dissenting Intellectuals and the 1989 Revolutions

VLADIMIR TISMANEANU - Editorial - June 19 2004 The revolutions of 1989 resulted from both the popular insurgency and the new political framework set forth by Michael Gorbachev. Dissenting intellectuals played a...

Political fight not over when polls were closed

ION CRISTOIU - June 21 2004 Not even now, at the end of the second round of voting, is one to know for sure which political party won the local elections. The Social Democrat Party says it won, pointing out the...

The Social Democrat Party Works Hard To Its Own Dismantling

ION CRISTOIU - June 28 2004 The political parties making the Alliance - the Democrat Party (DP) and the National Liberal Party (NLP) - did away with their state of euphoria following the results in the local...

Tomorrow the Electoral Campaign Starts

POLITICS - October 27th 2004 Starting from tomorrow, for 30 days, Romania enters the electoral campaign for the parliamentary and presidential elections which are to happen on 28 November. The electoral campaign...

Traian Basescu Is the New Romanian President

NEWS FLASH / FINAL RESULTS - December 14th 2004 Basescu is the winner of the second round of the presidential elections, obtaining 51.23% of the votes (with 5,125,794 of the votes respectively), while Adrian N...

The Romanian Baobab

By DORIN TUDORAN - January 21st 2005 This is the title of one of my editorials, which I published three years ago. It read: "The time of the doctrinarian trees seems to have disappeared in Romania. The ideological c...

For a Political Clearing Up

by MIRCEA CARTARESCU - January 25th 2005 The optimal configuration of the Government for a country like Romania is no other than the governing alternation of two opposite political polls. This system worked in...

Jimmy, hop on!

by DORIN TUDORAN - January 28th 2005 I take a look at the Washington Post. One of the titles draws my attention - "The Rise of Hoffa". Could this be a miracle and the one considered to be the most powerful...

Basescu - Alliance Break, a Great Political Error

President Traian Basescu considers that a break between NLP (the National Liberal Party) and DP (the Democratic Party) and the separate participation in the eventual before-term elections would be a big mistake and a...

Tariceanu Again Changed His Mind: He Will Not Resign Office

PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu surprised once more the political class with changing - yet again - his mind about leaving office. This time he said he will not resign, boarded a chopper to Bacau county and visited the...

New Diplomacy, no "Stars on the Shoulders"

Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu believes Romania should have an European diplomacy, without any clich...s or "stars on the shoulders", like before 1989. How much is true and how much is surreal in these targets? You will find the...

Document - the Risks and Threats of the New National Security Strategy

Source and Destination for Criminal Acts The highly disputed Strategy for Romaniaâ€™s National Security has been made public by the Presidential Administration yesterday, at the demand of the media, the...