In political terms, Corneliu Vadim Tudor’s fate has been on a downward course since the elections in 2000. The best he was able to accomplish was participation in the presidential run-off and winning, almost single-handedly, an outstanding score for the party in the parliamentary elections. With Eyal Arad, about angels Corneliu Vadim Tudor has many trades, but one calling: that of manipulating... 

Minister of Justice Monica Macovei is one of the few dignitaries to have indeed started fighting against corruption. Completion of a professional and independent audit on the anti-corruption strategy of the past four years was one of the recommendations included by the European Union in the safeguard clause. The Freedom House Report points to the main flaws in the Romanian legal system. The analysis... 

PSD turned into a blurred text. What happens inside the party is disappointing even to fans. Political analysts in the pro-PSD interpretation frame, such as Ion Cristoiu, are increasingly baffled and confused. God knows what miracle it takes to side with Ion Iliescu and Adrian Năstase! As days go by, the disease spreads into the party organism. There is no doubt that PSD needs a surgeon. Could Sorin... 

In full swing early this year, talks about the timeliness of the merger between the two parties in the D.A. Alliance have lately receded. Signals launched by the Democrat Party are clearly against the merger, whereas, for the civil society or the Liberal Party, negative signals are hidden behind the mask of concerns for “governance”… If the two parties really intend to merge, nobody... 

Traian Basescu started off as a President with a huge capital of trust. Almost as high as Ion Iliescu’s in 1990 or Emil Constantinescu’s in 1996. With one notable difference however: he won voters’ confidence 15 years after the revolution, at a time when citizens were less willing than ever to invest their confidence in a politician, given the accruing disappointment with and distrust... 

Minister of Administration and Home Affairs, Vasile Blaga, one of the politicians true to the incumbent President, stands out through his management skills.Blaga is one of the new politicians promoted by Traian Băsescu, with a fairly quick rise, just like Traian Băsescu. One may even say that his rise coincides with Traian Băsescu’s. Because Vasile Blaga was Traian Basescu’s confidante... 

Since the elections, PD is the author of the most serious blunders, related either to appointing the wrong people (the blonde for the Integration Ministry, Silvian Ionescu, Gheorghe Dobre), or to launching insufficiently considered topics for discussion (e.g. Videanu and his idea of having everyone state their wealth, but paying no heed to the way these assets were obtained, until 2005). The last really... 

Tax reforms launched by the Bucharest authorities were made without prior consultation with the International Monetary Fund. Statements made by its officials recently reveal their dissatisfaction and concern. The Prime Minister of Romanian replies quite vehemently, claiming that “it’s not the IMF which decides the policy in Romania…” In the meantime, the new Minister for Public... 

The conclusion of the first ballot for electing the President of Romania and the Parliament was by no means spectacular, just as the campaign itself was not particularly exciting, both on account of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC), and of the National Broadcasting Monitoring Authority (CNA). And we have had no spectacular outcome not because the final results were not interesting, but because the... 

I don’t know how many of you remember the story behind this phrase which has been so widely used, that it has become somewhat out of date for quite a while now, although it is sure to come back to life quite soon. But the story has its own significance, one may say, apart from the respective phrase. Reportedly, in the early history of Rome, when the city showed no signed yet that it would grow...