For the first time since December 1989, a senior Power representative, in the person of Dinu Patriciu, is charged, right at the onset of the new mandate, with serious law violations. A signal that the fight against corruption has gone beyond the political complexion of its actors, or is there more to it than meets the eye? Dinu Patriciu’s arrest, a move for electoral ends Accidentally or not,... 

Premier Tăriceanu thus finds himself in a position to slalom among idiosyncrasies in Cotroceni, the incompetence in counties affected by floods and the public policies imposed by Brussels. Undeniably, the Premier’s task is ever more difficult, and he is probably beginning to regret the well-off businessman’s life, which definitely requires far less effort. Facing a political test of paramount...