→ Read more[…] Basescu has repeated his insistence that Székelyföld will have no more nor less autonomy than anywhere else. This is not a position with which I disagree in principle, but since he trotted it out two years ago and has done absoultely nothing towards decentralisation in Romania since, it is clear that what he means by “Covasna will have the same amount of autonomy as Calarasi and Constanta” is, in fact, “absolutely none”.
Category: Romania
EU beer drinking profiles
Findings, inter alia: Danes and Swedes are the true beer lovers; Romanians, the most generous beer drinkers, though I bet that only holds for Romanian-priced beer. What SABMiller’s sponsored descriptive study didn’t ask is what types of beer people actually prefer, across the EU countries; or perhaps their own brands did not fare well?
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→ Read moreIt occurred to me that maybe there was no Romanian translation of the sentence “Do you know who I am?” — which would have been the first thing out of an American director’s mouth in a similar situation.
Econlinks for 20-01-’08
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I made a mistake last time when I mentioned Gelman and Cai’s recent research on whether the US political parties would gain from shifting their position on the economic axis, focusing on the Kerry vs.
Romania gets a B for its flag. Think anthems, next…
With too much indulgence, I’d say. For one, lack of originality (compare us to Greece, same grade!) should not be rewarded… The full rankings are here (alphabetical order here).
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