The Năstase case is not an exception in PSD. Actually, just about the whole leading team has image problems arising from corruption suspicions. Which made Victor Ponta say recently that he can’t think of any clean person among the party’s top three-four leaders. “Operation Aunt Tamara,” which could have been an opportunity for the reform of PSD, eventually turned into a... 

Identification of PSD with an Opposition party seemed clearer in early 2006. Last year both the Alliance and the media acted, strangely enough, as if the Social Democrats had been still in power. As ruling parties were striving to lay hands on all leading offices in most sectors (Parliament, Justice, local administration, healthcare, etc), they faced firm opposition from PSD or persons close to this... 

For the readers who never heard the name of the great mathematicians, father and son, founders of non-Euclidian geometry, Bolyai stands for nothing but discord in the Romanian education system. In Cluj, plans are afoot for the segregation of the University-, while in High School- has become, as of this year, an education unit with exclusively Magyar tuition. The political community managed to... 

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) has lately been subject to a terrible commotion, mainly sparked by “the old man,” but also by the fury with which the incumbent Power assailed Adrian Năstase and Nicolae Văcăroiu’s chairs. The twilight of dinosaurs? The famous reconciliation between Iliescu and Petre Roman came as a surprise to everyone. The former idol of the working girls... 

The Justice and Truth Alliance won the elections in 2004 because a large part of the electorate had actually had enough of the PSD immorality. The Alliance thus relied on a “moral intransigence” message, with Traian Băsescu as its spearhead. But since PNL is rather a capricious party in this respect, the colours of moral intransigence were taken over by the Democratic Party. The Liberals’... 

The Romanian political agenda is focused these days on the political objective of introducing the unicameral parliamentary system. The natural question is whether the initiative is worth the effort, and if so, which is the model to be followed? Prerequisites for unicameralism The objective of introducing a single-chamber Parliament has the incumbent President as a promoter, although he is not the... 

Traian Băsescu put forth the unicameral parliament topic during his visit to Washington. Apparently at least, the President’s message was not calculated. Băsescu expressed his position in favour of the shift to the unicameral parliamentary system, when answering a question asked by the Romania language media in the USA. Taking no time to think it over, Premier Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, while... 

Political science experts have identified, in the analysis of post-Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe-, a very close relationship between social-economic issues (measured in price rises, inflation, unemployment, poverty, future of the children) and the voters’ penchant for authoritarian leaders, with an authoritarian rhetoric. Electoral profiles Revision of the European Union’s... 

Relationships between the D.A. Alliance and UDMR might get complicated in the ensuing period. President of the Union Marko Bela has been often emphasising, as of recently, the substantial contribution made by his party to the good functioning of the Government, the positive part the party has played so far. By claiming that UDMR is a necessary partner, the party leader actually means to illustrate... 

The legislative package on property includes provisions on the drafting and enforcement of legislation on: restitution of real estate assets abusively seized in March 6, 1945 – December 22, 1989, restitution of landed property and encouraging agriculture development. Principles of the law The core principles of the legislative package on the modification of the real estate property regime...