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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania and Bulgaria: occupy the transition!
Last year’s mass protests in Romania and Bulgaria gave citizens a taste of how together they can transform public...
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Published in: HomeDon't miss Stream of Love
After a while, we begin to feel that the stream of love embraces many people in this community - there is so much...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The tragedy of education in rural Romania
Rural 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?"Let's not talk about it": how the mass surveillance debate was silenced in Romania
The active suppression of debate about mass surveillance, SIM card registration and data retention by Romanian...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Communist nostalgia in Romania
A recent poll suggested that nearly half of Romanians have a positive view of Ceausescu and believe that life was...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new Balkan revolts: from protests to plenums, and beyond
The current wave of protests in Bosnia may represent the birth of true activist citizenship. These movements...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Between legality and legitimacy: Romania’s fight against corruption
Romania has made vital steps in developing its institutional capabilities to deal with corruption. The way that such...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Back to the basics: let's talk democracy out
People have more rights and freedoms than ever before, so why do they feel so estranged from the political processes...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What Romania can teach the western world
Unlike France, Italy or the Netherlands, the crisis of Romania’s elites has not led to a rise in xenophobic politics...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romania's 1989 revolution redux
This 21 December, around 4,000 people took to the streets of Bucharest to commemorate the 1989 revolution....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain's Bulgaria-Romania phobia
The panic in Britain over prospective Bulgarian and Romanian immigration is based on misunderstanding of European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Where the buffalo shouldn't roam
In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Educating Romani children: why Europe must make it a priority
Can education be the answer to the "Roma issue" in central and eastern Europe? A look at the challenges in one Roma...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Romanian spring or Carpathian autumn?
After more than a decade, the fight to save Rosia Montana has entered its final phase. It would be an incredible...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"The Revolution begins with Rosia Montana"
A new law going through the Romanian parliament allowing a Canadian mining company to forcefully expropriate the...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageHuman rights in the vernacular
The road to greater ownership of human rights by emerging powers is a bumpy one. But it will lead to a more real,...
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Published in: HomeRomanian media in crisis
Romanian media is in a sad state, with newspapers losing stamina by the day and television channels shamelessly...