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Basescu defends record before parliament
Traian Basescu, Romania’s president, defended his record in office on Wednesday in front of a generally supine parliament. Representatives of the main opposition parties left well before the close of Basescu’s speech.
Basescu said his main achievement had been to oversee ‘unprecedented economic growth,’ and was quick to praise the current government of Emil Boc, a member of Basescu’s Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).
Basescu heavily criticised the government of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, with which he uncomfortably cohabited for the first four years of his term.
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I was wrong.
Back in January I said Unirea Urziceni would not be allowed to win the Romanian league title this year. I was fortunately very wrong. Urziceni, an awful town of 17,000 people, 66,227 stray dogs and no supermarket a short drive north east of Bucharest, can now boast to be the home of the Romanian [...]