Raluca Besliu is a freelance journalist from Romania. She runs a blog about young changemakers and entrepreneurs called Taking on the Giant. You can follow her @Raluca_Besliu
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Refuge, and a home, in Vienna: a young Iraqi's storyAn Iraqi refugee tells us how he came to Vienna and managed to make a life for himself there against the odds.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reclaiming the forest: a Romanian storySince the fall of communism, Romania's ancestral, cultural link to its forests is being undermined by corrupt...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The dying beauty of old BucharestIn order for Bucharest to reclaim its role as a leading European capital, it has to undergo a major process of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania's unsolved communist ecological disasterGeamana was once a picturesque village in the Carpathian Mountains. Today, the village has almost entirely been...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The tragedy of education in rural RomaniaRural education in Romania is in a dismal state, lagging far behind its urban counterpart, and having among the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Communist nostalgia in RomaniaA recent poll suggested that nearly half of Romanians have a positive view of Ceausescu and believe that life was...