With daily coronavirus infection rates continuing to hover around 1,200, no one really knows what September will bring. If it is up to the newly elected PSD’s leader Marcel Ciolacu we will not have a government as of next week. But COVID-19 is unlikely to interfere with the local elections elections on September 27. There is a hotly contested mayoral race in Târgu Mureș. Smart mobility options keep expanding in Romania while new data show that Romanian migrant workers seem to be reluctant to return to Western Europe after they got back to Romania during the lockdown this spring. You will find out about these developments and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.
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Romanian Dispatch #3 (August 22-28, 2020)
l pasado 19 de junio, viernes, Bucarest fue escenario de una muerte de novela. Las redacciones de los periódicos ya se preparaban para irse de fin de semana cuando llegó el comunicado de la Policía: un hombre extranjero de 52 años había fallecido en un céntrico hotel de la capital rumana tras caer de uno de los pisos superiores.
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Romania is gearing up for local elections on September 24 and mayoral races around the country promise to be full of suspense. Schools are getting ready to re-open too, although the high rate of COVID-19 infections may be a spoiler. That and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.
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Romanian Dispatch #2 (August 15-21, 2020)
This is the first official issue of Romanian Dispatch, after we launched our zero issue last week. Thank you for all your positive feedback and congratulatory messages!
Romanian Dispatch will arrive in your mailbox each Saturday morning and provides you with a summary of the main news of the week, highlights particularly important developments and provides context and analysis — from politics to pop culture. Starting in September we will also be offering a weekly podcast.
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Romanian Dispatch #1 (August 8-14, 2020)
This is the zero issue of Romanian Dispatch, a weekly English-language newsletter, and soon also a podcast, about developments in Romania — from politics to pop culture.
Every week we plan to compile the main news of the week, highlight particularly important developments and provide context and analysis.
This is an experiment and we very much like to hear from you if this newsletter is useful to you, what is missing, redundant, etc. Please do not hesitate to forward Romanian Dispatch to others you think might be interested in weekly news and analyses from Romania.
Romanian Dispatch #0 (August 1-7, 2020)
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