While Romania registered almost 20,000 corona infections on Friday, a record, Parliament and the government abandoned the green pass, the coalition partners could not agree on measures to alleviate rising energy prices, and the Prime Minister was accused of a copy-paste job. On top of that a strike of the public transport company threw traffic in the capital into chaos.

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Romanian Dispatch #48 (January 15—21, 2022)