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Freedom of movement inside the EU of European citizens is no longer guarenteed as Italian Government issued legislation contrary to this fundamental principle on which the European Union is built. According to this new law, the Italian authorities have already deported tens of Romanian citizens living in the peninsula, even though they enjoy the rights guarenteed by the European citizenship. The action came as a reaction against the Romanian minority living in Italy fallowing the killing of an Italian women by a Romanian immigrant.

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?

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.

The Public Politics Institute released last Friday a study on the parliamentary activity for the last session, February-June 2007. The criteria used for evaluating the Romanian MPs were their presence or absence to the vote, the number of legislative projects proposed, the number of questions addressed to the public authorities and their loyalty for the party (expressed through their votes).

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.

According to the last statistics of Eurostat, Romania registered in July an annualised inflation of 4.1 per cent, compared with the 2 per cent of the EU. The Euro zone annualised inflation stood at 1.8 per cent in July, down from 1.9 per cent in June. In Romania, the inflation projection for 2007 stands at 3.9 per cent, and the inflation target, at 4 per cent, +/- 1 per cent.