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Deutsche Welle: EU funds spent on ‘brutal revamp’ of Romania’s Saxon churches

Standing to face a room full of angry conservationists, the Romanian Evangelical Church lawyer Friedrich Gunesch looks red faced and shaken. Over the last four hours he has faced accusations of...

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Peonies grown in Lehliu hit the Flower Stock Exchange in Amsterdam

A Romanian producer in Lehliu Gara has reached the performance to sell peonies to the Dutch, adevarulfinanciar.ro informs. On the plots of land in Lehliu Gara, but also in greenhouses spanning a...

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15 city mayors suspended due to corruption charges

15 city mayors are currently suspended from office following the investigations conducted by the National Anti-corruption Directorate in their cases. In Bucharest, two district mayors out of six are...

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Romania, lagging behind in European funds absorption

When we joined the European Union it was said that accession is the best chance for Romania’s modernization since the Great Union of 1918 onwards. But the money that could have helped us to reach the...

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Washington Times: Romania considers legalized bribery to keep doctors

Romanian leaders believe they have found a solution to the low pay and corruption that are driving doctors out of this impoverished Eastern European country: legalized bribery. Among a raft of...

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3,000 Romanian offenders arrested in Europe this year

3,000 Romanian law breakers have been arrested in Europe this year, the Foreign Affairs Ministry informs. Organized in strong criminal organizations, many of them were cracking cribs of millions of...

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Record visitors to Turda salt mine: 500,000

Turda Salt Mine is one of the most beautiful tourist sites in Romania. Visitor number five hundred thousand this year descended underground these days, not before receiving a free subscription gift for...

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Business integrity in Germany. What Does the Volkswagen Story Really Tell Us?

by ERCAS The scandal involving the car maker uncovered an ‘apalling’ level of business integrity amongst German industry, as studies on corruption reveal.   The current scandal around Volkswagen (VW)...

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President Klaus Iohannis’ balance sheet after one year in office

A year ago, over 6.2 million Romanian had voted Klaus Iohannis for president of the country for five years. The current president promised Romania a different policy, far less scandals and more...

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Corruption, the real ‘Game of Thrones’ being played in our democracies

By ERCAS     Why have corruption scandals become so salient in the news? In countries like Brazil, India, Ukraine or the Balkans, many rounds of elections in the past decades have sometimes changed...

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Corruption and football: If FIFA were a country, it should be one the US...

By Ercas   The international football association is so corrupt that if it was a country, it would be ranked somewhere in the bottom half, says specialist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, who advocates for a...

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‘Politico’: European Commissioner Corina Cretu’s work habits prompt aides...

Nearly half of EU Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Creţu’s closest staff resigned during her first year in office over concerns about the Romanian’s work habits, politico.eu informs. Current and...

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Remus Truica was pulling strings to push Prince Paul into the government, to...

Businessman Remus Truica (photo), defendant in the illegal land restitution file of Baneasa Farm, along with Prince Paul, Dan Andronic and others, was pulling the strings in 2008 for Prince Paul to get...

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The European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee demands answers on...

The European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee has asked the Commission to explain the work habits of its EU regional policy chief, Corina Creţu, following a report in politico.eu that nearly...

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‘Write a book to escape jail’ loophole, widely spread among Romanian famous...

The now famous habit of Romanian prisoners to write books and scientific papers in order to reduce their jail sentence became ‘viral’ also in the international media. Renowned  public persons such as...

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Books from the penitentiary: Miron Mitrea’s confessions – election frauds,...

Former social-democrat Transport Minister Miron Mitrea is writing the third book while serving his sentence for corruption at the Poarta Alba penitentiary. The book, titled ‘Electoral campaigns...

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Public Integrity: A multi-speed Europe

The first objective report ranking public integrity in European Union member states shows Finland leading and Bulgaria lagging behind.   By Ramin Dadašov  The Dutch Presidency of the European Union...

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Al Jazeera reveals modern slavery in the UK, Romanian workers live in...

The findings prompted a warning from Britain’s anti-slavery commissioner that companies all over the United Kingdom could unwittingly be using modern-day slaves. Secret filming by Al Jazeera uncovered...

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Can one really speak about corrupt countries?

 by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Corruption researcher Alina Mungiu-Pippidi challenges the politically correct views at the recent London summit on anti-corruption.   Prime Minister Cameron shocked everyone by...

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The Sun: Criminal gang exposed. Thousands bought false Romanian passports to...

A bombshell investigation has shown how crooks arrange false papers for Russian, Ukrainian and eastern European nationals so they can work in countries like the UK, thesun.co.uk reports. The gang are...

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