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Bucharest Life 2012: It’s all about politics

by Craig Turp January 1, 2012 Bucharest

 One thing will dominate Bucharest Life this coming year, and it’s not Elena Udrea in latex. No, having taken a year’s holiday, Romanian politics is back in a big way, with two sets of elections scheduled for 2012, the first since the controversial presidential election of 2008. As things stand today, the loose and unholy [...]

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Pointless bureaucracy

by Craig Turp November 9, 2011 Business

 Chances are you have never heard of the Registrul Operatorilor Intracomunitari (ROI; Inter-EU Commerce Register). Until a couple of weeks ago, neither had we. Without going into too much detail, the ROI is a register of all Romanian VAT-paying companies which do business with other EU member states. Since August 1st, 2010, all VAT-paying companies [...]

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Burying Bucharest’s Cables

by Craig Turp October 18, 2011 Bucharest

 We’ve been going on about Bucharest’s unsightly and downright dangerous overhead cables ever since we began writing about the city here at Bucharest Life. In brief (we do not want to risk repeating ourselves too much) we think that the cables make the city look Third World, and that burying them would do wonders for [...]

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The idea that tourism can ‘save’ Romania is too simplistic

by Craig Turp September 4, 2011 Business

 Shortly after the Romanian revolution of 1989 graffiti appeared on the streets of many cities in the country saying ‘Monarhia salveaza Romania‘ (The monarchy will save Romania). You still see the slogan occasionally, although these days it’s usually written with a heavy sense of irony. Without irony however is the current trend amongst certain parts [...]

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And now for something completely different

by Craig Turp August 20, 2011 Bucharest

 A post in which Bucharest Life turns consumer watchdog. As has probably long been clear to at least one of our two readers, we have a rather sharp and well-functioning bullshit radar. It has gone off the scale a couple of times recently, once at our local swimming pool when we overheard one chap telling [...]

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From our department of blatant self-promotion

by Craig Turp February 7, 2011 Bucharest

 We made Switzerland’s top financial publication Finanz und Wirtschaft on Saturday. No, we’re not quite sure why either…

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On Polish tomatoes in Romanian supermarkets

by Craig Turp August 7, 2010 Bucharest

 We love Poland. We have probably spent more time there than we have any other country in Europe (Britain and Romania excepted of course). But we have to ask why Auchan (a French retailer) is selling Polish tomatoes in its Romanian supermarkets? They are not bad at all, though of course not half as good [...]

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