A Mass Grave Raises Ghosts of Romania’s Holocaust Past
This article was first published on www.time.com One day in 1941, Vasile Enache was tending his cows in the forest of Vulturi, near the city of Iasi, 260 miles (420 km) northeast of Bucharest, when he...
View ArticleAn update about the France-Roma-Romania argument
This article was first published on the Economist’s website Eastern Approaches. It is worth looking at the Economist’s version of the article as it has been quite well edited, tightened up and...
View ArticleWhy Romania?
This article was translated by Iulia Marusca and published in the Hotnews blog “Contributors”. * I’m reading a book that has helped me crack a mystery that has troubled me for 20 years: why do I live...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Romania?
This article was first published in the Hotnews Blog “Contributors”. Someone recently asked me what’s the main factor that prevents Romania from realising its economic potential and I said, without...
View ArticleOrdo Quod Chaos
This article was also published in Romanian, on the Dilema Veche website. My view of Romania over the last 10 years is that it has been developing in a steady, predictable and incremental manner. The...
View ArticleThe Romanian Second Hand Scam
This article was also published in Romanian on contributors.ro (worth looking at for the intelligence of the comments). When my brother Moona moved to Portugal and started to build an eco house out of...
View ArticleHow to Prepare for an Earthquake
This article was also published in Romanian on contributors.ro I have just walked away from a really annoying talk show on one of Romania’s news channels with a feeling of déjà vu. Every time there is...
View ArticleAdrian Severin hangs on Gaddafi style
Romanian MEP Adrian Severin is being hounded by the Bucharest press to resign from the European Parliament for his part in an 8-month long Sunday Times sting operation. Two undercover journalists from...
View ArticleSwedes Sue Romanians Over the Name Ice Hotel
Getting to Romania’s Ice Hotel involves a hair-raising ride in a cable car to a frozen lake two thousand metres above sea level. Every December the family who run it cut blocks of ice from the frozen...
View ArticleRomanian Senate Relaxes Road Traffic Law
The Chinese Ambassador to Bucharest once compared the building of motorways in his country to what’s been achieved in Romania. He said that both countries have been engaged on motorway building for...
View ArticleBritish Comedy in Bucharest
This article was also published in Romanian on Hotnews. The most interesting thing about “British Comedy Night”, which takes place on the first Saturday of each month, is the street. Strada Gabroveni...
View ArticleSighisoara Needs Your Help
This article was also published in Romanian on Hotnews. Anyone who knows Romania is aware that Sighisoara is a pretty amazing place. Guidebooks describe is as the only medieval citadel in Europe that...
View ArticleA Guide to Addiction Treatment in Romania
It’s not easy finding treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction in Romania. I know this because I have been looking for addiction treatment services in this country over the last year. You may be...
View ArticleThe power of lobbies
This article was also published in Romanian on Contributors.ro “There are two types of political lobby campaigns” explained my tutor of political science at Liverpool University, “you have the big...
View ArticleMemories of Bucharest in 1990
In 1989 I taught myself to be a journalist (I had no idea you could study it in university). By the end of that year I was covering the Romanian revolution for Scotland on Sunday, a newspaper that was...
View Article3 Romanian Film Directors
This video was found in our archives, translated into Romanian and published in Jurnal National (click here). If you want to see the video without reading all this text, go to the end of this article...
View ArticlePrince Charles of Romania
You can also read this article in Romanian, on the Contributors section of Hotnews. I don’t have a TV as I can’t stand the sensationalist nonsense pumped out by ProTV or the endless “analysis” the 24...
View ArticleAbolish The Ministry of Tourism
This article also appeared in Romanian on the Contributors section of Hotnews. When I published my first article in the Huffington Post I was greeted by over 100 negative comments, all from people who...
View ArticleMega Image Take Over Bucharest
This article also appeared in Romanian on www.121.ro. My son Luca is nine years old and he’s obsessed by the supermarket chain Mega Image. If you ask him “What would you like to do today?” his face...
View ArticleEugen David vs Goliath
Romanian villagers face down Canadian mining corporation over cyanide lake. A small charity has succeeded in blocking a multi-billion dollar Canadian gold-mining operation in the Romanian village of...
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