Thursday, November 19, 2009

Don’t vote if you don’t want to

by Craig Turp November 19, 2009 Bucharest

 Romanians go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election. That much you probably know. You probably also know that just three of the candidates have any chance of making the second round a fortnight later. They are: current president Traian Basescu; PSD leader Mircea Geoana; and [...]

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Bucharest’s metro workers go back to work as strike ends. And a quiz

by Craig Turp November 19, 2009 Bucharest

 The strike by workers on Bucharest’s metro – which had crippled the city for the past two days – ended this morning as trains once again began running on the city’s four metro lines. The strike had been declared illegal late yesterday by a Bucharest court. The Metro trade union now has ten days to [...]

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