Crin Antonescu

First day of school

by Craig Turp September 15, 2009 Bucharest

 As a mildly-regular user of Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport, we know what utter chaos looks like when we see it (as does anyone unlucky enough to have been at said airport when two planes land within a few minutes of each other). Nothing though could have prepared us for, nor compares with, the utter chaos, carnage [...]

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The Week in Bucharest: September 4

by Craig Turp September 4, 2009 Bucharest

A weekly digest of news and sport from Bucharest and around Romania

Former President attacks Basescu; Presidential election set for November 22

Former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu this week labelled called current president Traian Basescu a “lying, long-term Securitate informer” in an open letter (published on Constantinescu’s own website) in which he endorsed the candidacy of the Liberal Party’s Crin Antonescu. Constantinescu claimed that Basescu was man of “limited eductaion” who had repeatedly shown his incompetence in a long political career in which he had achieved little except “destroiying the [Romanian commercial] fleet and delaying the construction of motorways.”

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Antonescu Presents Genuine Alternative

by Craig Turp June 3, 2009 Romanian Politics

 With an eye on December’s presidential election as much as this Sunday’s European vote, the Romanian Liberal Party (PNL) on Monday presented the  most coherent yet radical political agenda in recent Romanian political history. Alas, on a day when the disappearance over the Atlantic of an Air France flight from Brazil to Paris made all [...]

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