The ongoing heat and the resulting drought (secetă) is destroying agricultural crops on an unprecedented scale — almost 200,000 hectares. Prime minister Nicolae Ciucă told Bloomberg that he expects Romania to join Schengen this year — which makes one wonder if he was struck by the heat when he said that…

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Romanian Dispatch #53 (August 13, 2022)