From the government that brought you a compulsory profit tax on losses, and a tax on fast food comes another wonderful initiative designed to see thousands more Romanian companies close: all Romanian companies (no matter their size) must hire not one, but two full time accountants.
Yes, you read that correctly.
More than 40 MPs, including big [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Traian Basescu’
Basescu’s Romania: Arse and elbow in new mix-up
Dogs. Again.
We read this yesterday with much enthusiasm: Bucharest City Council has pledged to change the law so that all stray dogs it captures and sterilizes will no longer be returned to the city’s streets.
We take our hats off to the prefect of Bucharest, Mihai Cristian Atanasoaei, who said he supports “immediate, firm action [on the [...]
Astrology, Witchcraft, Pseudoscience & Classic Comedy
Last night, Romanian television was awash with astrologers, pyschics, energicians, homeopaths and other such quacks. All of whom were given time to explain – as if their theories had any scientific validity – the power allegedly being influenced by Traian Basescu’s Purple Flame Brigade. (Apparently, Basescu takes a chap called Aliodor Manolea – a ‘parapsychologist’ [...]
Esoteric energy & Purple flames: Romanian politics goes officially Michael Jackson
How many times have we used the phrase ‘You really couldn’t make it up’ on these pages?
Too many to count.
But we are about to do so again anyway…
You really couldn’t make it up: wife of defeated presidential candidate Mircea Geoana appeared on television on Saturday night to reveal that during the election campaign (especially [...]
It’s not the Romanian government’s business to go around building golf courses
Elena Udrea, everyone’s favourite Minister of Tourism, has been a fantastic source of inspiration for Bucharest Life for some time now. We were therefore chuffed to bits that Traian Basescu chose her to continue in the role in his new government (going as far as to increase the size of her portfolio by throwing in [...]