The results of last month’s local elections have started reshaping Romania’s political landscape, including new alliances, mergers and acquisitions. New numbers show that direct foreign investment was up in 2019 and predicted wage increases materialised in the first half of 2020. Yesterday a record number of Romanians were tested positive for corona (yes, we used this very same sentence last week too). Consequently, cinemas, cafés and restaurants were closed in Bucharest and seven counties where the infection rate exceeds the threshold of 1.5 per 1,000 inhabitants. All this and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.

Romanian Dispatch #10 (October 3-9, 2020)