Romania

Nicolae Ceausescu—death of brutal dictator was a Christmas gift
Features

Nicolae Ceausescu—death of brutal dictator was a Christmas gift

Stalinist regimes across Eastern Europe fell in 1989, but Romania was the icing on the Xmas cake says Tomáš Tengely-Evans
16 December 2019
Protests in Romania call for the government to go
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Protests in Romania call for the government to go

A government decree watering down punishments for corruption has sparked large scale protests with thousands taking to the streets.
07 February 2017
Mass protests demand Romanian prime minister steps down over 'corruption law'
International

Mass protests demand Romanian prime minister steps down over ‘corruption law’

Over 200,000 people took to the streets of Bucharest in Romaniaon Sunday night.A further 300,000 marched in towns and cities across the country, including 40,000 in Timisoara and 45,000 in Cluj-Napoca.
07 February 2017
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Protest against raids on Roma

Roma people and their supporters are preparing for a protest to defend Roma from raids and harassment.
23 July 2013
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Roma victims remembered as racist violence returns

Romanian Roma and others gathered at the Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial in central London on Friday two weeks ago.
14 August 2012
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Reviews & Culture

Police, Adjective

Cristi is a police officer stalking and staking out a gang of young drug offenders in a small town in Romania. He is reluctant to prosecute them as this would ruin their lives and the law will soon change.
05 October 2010
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Arms cash

Chile – BAE secretly paid £1 million to General Pinochet in return for help over arms deals.Romania – The 2003 sale of two ex-Royal Navy frigates saw payments of £7 million in "secret commissions" to clinch the £116 million ship refurbishment deal.Czech Republic – The 2003 sale of Gripen fighter aircraft to the Czech Republic saw the CIA, rival arms companies and the Czech police confirm bribery attempts by BAE.Qatar – After the sale of UK arms to Qatar in 1996, BAE paid a £7 million "commission" into three Jersey trust funds under the cont
09 February 2010
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Attacks on Romanians in Belfast reflect the sectarian state

The simmering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland has boiled over this week with more than 100 Romanians forced out of their homes in a series of racist attacks in Belfast.
18 June 2009
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Solidarity with Romanian families in Belfast

Email messages of support to the chair of the Anti-racism network in Belfast [email protected]
17 June 2009
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What We Think

A very high price for Nato expansion

George Bush arrived in Romania for a Nato summit this week backing applications from Ukraine and Georgia to join the US-led military alliance. The expansion of Nato to Russia’s borders has been key to the "new Cold War" between the US and Russia.
01 April 2008
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Features

A new left for eastern Europe

In 1989 one party regimes crumbled in six countries in Eastern Europe. Within a few weeks there were massive political changes in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The Eastern Bloc, which the Soviet Union had dominated, was finished.
05 February 2008
Roma: blaming the victims in Slough
Features

Roma: blaming the victims in Slough

"A flood of Romanian gypsy children has left a British town facing financial crisis," screamed the Daily Mail last week. "Roma children flood into Slough," said the BBC.
22 May 2007
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Comment

Another stir of the toxic mix – New Labour and workers from Romania and Bulgaria

Labour’s long anticipated approach to the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union (EU) was announced last week. As expected, Home Secretary John Reid has opted for various restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians working in Britain.
04 November 2006
Letters
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Letters

New wave of xenophobia The possibility of Romanians and Bulgarians being able to travel to seek work when their countries join the European Union (EU) in the new year has been greeted by the usual xenophobic noises.
04 November 2006
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New Labour attacks migrants from Bulgaria and Romania

Not content with whipping up Islamophobia, New Labour is now targeting workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
28 October 2006
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What We Think

Blame the rich, not migrant workers

Amid the slew of lies about the "crisis" that will be caused by "floods of immigrants" who are threatening to arrive from Romania and Bulgaria (lies echoed by all the major parties), it is important to restate some basic facts.
26 August 2006
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Adrian Stan campaign

Romanian refugee Adrian Stan would have been dumped on a plane to Bucharest were it not for the action of local campaigners.
24 June 2006
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Features

Ukraine’s Brutal History

Ukraine means "borderland". It suggests a country far away from the heart of Europe. But many Ukrainians believe they live in the middle of Europe—and they have a point. The Ukraine may have a huge border with Russia, but it also touches Belarus, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Hungary and Romania, as well as Moldova.
04 December 2004
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Reviews & Culture

‘It all started with a bad experience in Romania’

The whole thing began for me in November 2002 after a rather bruising experience in Bucharest, Romania.
30 October 2004
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Labour and Mittal steel: favours just for business friends

Trade Unions give money to New Labour and get kicked. Businessmen hand over cash and get favours. That's what has been revealed around the scandal of the £125,000 donation to the government by steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. Mittal wanted to buy a privatised Romanian steel plant last year. He made a donation to New Labour's election campaign.
23 February 2002