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)