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Romanian child needs suicide to make his will heard

Every single minute, one person commits suicide - worldwide. On Tuesday, 2 October, 06:02, this person was a 12 year old child from Romania. He decided not to live any more because he found no solution to his mother’s leaving. A potential scenario to be followed by any of the 60.000 children confronted with the same problem.

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Bucharest – Paris Café

With more than 50 blogs all over Europe and 26 local offices, the Community of Babelians grew strong, providing us tools for a better interaction and a wider space for expressing our ideas and communicating easier in Europe our local news.

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Electoral Campaign with European Personalities

25th November - the date for the European Parliament Elections is approaching, so the electoral campaign is becoming more intense. Besides of making use of the Romanian crisis in Italy for drawing the debate into their favour, two of the most important parties brought last week to Romania, international guests to support them.

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The Romanian real estate market

In the past few years the Romanian real estate market has seen a soaring growth in terms of prices and number of transactions. What seemed a dead market almost 20 years ago is now a huge magnet for foreign capital investment. Only in the first quarter of 2007 real estate players have announced future investments of 22 billion Euro for the 2007 – 2013 period taking the total amount to a staggering level of 42.5 billion Euro to enter the market in the following 7 years.

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Failed an exam? Blame the interior design of Bucharest University

Can the external look of the chemistry and journalism departments of the oldest Romanian university have an impact on how you study? Can the lighting, colours, decoration, symbols or general 'look' of a department influence the education process?

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Touring Romania

The Rolling Stones, The Prodigy, Alice Cooper, Marylin Manson, Reammon, Pink, Muse, The Pussycat Dolls, Shakira...No, it’s not my blog’s playlist, but these are just few of the bands that have been touring our country this glorious year of 2007 and by doing so, they’ve added Romania on the map and on the touring agenda of other famous musicians.

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Love scanarios

Love – an inexhaustible subject, tackled from any point of view, by all sort of characters that can’t be written down on the list of taboos anymore because the media today knew how to seize it in order to develop attractive, manipulative, novelty stories.

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Elections for the European Parliament

The final lists with the candidates for the European Parliament elections, set on 25th November, have been sent yesterday to the Central Electoral Office. The political parties finally decided whom to send to Brussels, after many negotiations with their members, as they didn’t want to leave Bucharest not to loose their internal influence and positions.

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First White Night in Bucharest

All the magic happened in the Constitution Square, where thousand of people gathered, as if they were summoned by one creed: Tonight no one sleeps!

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NOT IN MY BACK YARD

This seems to be the expression that guided the British in their struggle against the undesired constructions situated close to their home. Shouted or not, this motto proves the interest of the Albion’s inhabitants towards the preservation of the green spaces.

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