Monday, November 23, 2009

Top Gear in Romania: Do you know what good press is?

by Craig Turp November 23, 2009 Romania

 Last weekend, the BBC’s Top Gear featured Romania heavily (especially the Transfagarasan highway) in the first programme of a new series. If you have not seen the programme, tough: it was on You Tube but the BBC has taken at least some of the videos down (and not without good reason, they do own the [...]

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Notes on Romania’s Presidential Election (Round 1)

by Craig Turp November 23, 2009 Bucharest

 As expected, the current Romanian president, Traian Basescu, will face the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Mircea Geoana, in a second round run off on December 6th. Both men polled around 30 per cent in yesterday’s first round of voting, with Liberal Crin Antonescu third, with around 22 per cent. The final, actual results [...]

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