Bucharest mayor Nicuşor Dan made headlines this week with introducing pedestrian-only zones in the capital on weekends and declaring his intention to raise parking fees in order to increase mobility. The European Commission once again called on EU member states to admit Romania to the Schengen area. And the long-awaited National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) was approved by Brussels and published by the government on Wednesday.

This and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch’s coverage of the past seven days. If you like it, why not pass it on? New readers can subscribe here.

Romanian Dispatch #32 (May 29 — June 4, 2021)