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Electoral Campaign with European Personalities

Tuesday, November 13 2007 By Camelia | Politics | 10 comments

This post is also available in: Spanish

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.

The vanity of our highest politicians drives Romania to chaos

Wednesday, November 7 2007 By bucuresti | Politics

For the last weeks, the Romanian political scene was split by the disputes on organizing in the same day the referendum for the uninominal voting system and the European Parliament elections, especially because there will be used different human and financial resources for each ballot.

The Romanian real estate market

By bucuresti | Economy | 9 comments

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.

Failed an exam? Blame the interior design of Bucharest University

By bucuresti | Society | one comment

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?

Premium Launch Event in Bucharest

Monday, October 29 2007 By Camelia | Cafebabel Romania | 15 comments

Today took place our Community Launch Event in Bucharest, at 18h, within the University of Political and Administrative Studies.

International Photo Salon

Thursday, October 25 2007 By Camelia | Culture

Starting with Sunday, October 21st, The International Showroom of Photography Art from Sibiu is celebrating its XII edition. With this occasion, The International Federation of Photography Art is awarding the organisers with a bronze medal.

Touring Romania

Tuesday, October 16 2007 By bucuresti | Culture | 2 comments

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.

Youth employment

Wednesday, October 10 2007 By bucuresti | Society | 11 comments

We are being told that the more we study now, the more comfortable we’ll live later. We are being told to invest in our career. To participate at courses, trainings, internships, all kind of activities that can put you in competition with others like you. But nothing guaranties that once the university graduated we’ll obtain a well paid job, or we’ll manage to build a successful career, or even that we’ll work in the same field as the one we studied for. But also we don’t have to accept anything that comes in second hand. If you did study a lot, think about what you have learned and what you can use it for. Maybe somewhere in the future, it will be us the ones who rise the statistics for studies abroad, or the high quoted jobs!

Love scanarios

Wednesday, October 3 2007 By bucuresti | Society | 4 comments

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.

Elections for the European Parliament

Thursday, September 27 2007 By Camelia | Politics

This post is also available in: Spanish

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.

European Parliament

Start for a virtual Romania

Tuesday, September 25 2007 By Camelia | Society | 3 comments

In a few years now, one can see every corner of Romania by browsing an online map. Considering the EU directive, Inspire, which aims at creating a 3D map for the EU, the National Agency for Cadastre from Romania, ran in the past two years a photo shooting in which our country “showed off” its landscapes to a special photo camera, set on a plane.

Carpatian Mountains

First White Night in Bucharest

Monday, September 24 2007 By bucuresti | Culture | one comment

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!

The activity of Romanian MPs

Monday, September 17 2007 By Camelia | Politics

This post is also available in: Spanish

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).

CAMERA DEPUTATILOR - SEDINTA IN PLEN

Jobs, housing and education – main concerns for Romanian Youth

By Camelia | Society

This post is also available in: Spanish

According to a survey released by the National Authority for Youth, 97% of the young people declare themselves being concerned about getting a job, a better education and access to housing, since the prices rose very much on the market.

Romanian school

NOT IN MY BACK YARD

Thursday, September 13 2007 By bucuresti | Society | 10 comments

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.

A smoking Europe

Wednesday, August 29 2007 By bucuresti | Society | 10 comments | one attachment

Smokers watch out! EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou launched on the 1st of March 2005 a four-year anti-smoking campaign „Help, for a life without tobacco”.

Dead smoking doll

Stufstock Festival - the most important summer festival in Romania

Sunday, August 19 2007 By Camelia | Culture | one attachment

Each year at the end of the summer, the Stufstock Festival gathers together the most famous rock, punk and metal bands in a nice athmosphere - the Black Sea Coast. Between 17th and 19th of August you can find here the metallists from Cradle of Filth, the punkers from Toy Dolls and Dandy Warhols, and the funkers from Defunkt.

Vama Veche

Romania registered a 4.1% of inflation this July

By Camelia | Economy

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.

Vara culturală în Sibiu

Wednesday, August 8 2007 By Camelia | Culture | 6 comments | 2 attachments

După concertul lui Julio Iglesias sau cel jazz al trupei poloneze Piotr Wotjtasik Band, Sibiul îşi contiună seria de evenimente europene, nu doar muzicale, şi în luna august.

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Electoral Campaign with European Personalities

The vanity of our highest politicians drives Romania to chaos

For the last weeks, the Romanian political scene was split by the disputes on organizing in the same day the referendum for the uninominal voting system and the European Parliament elections, especially because there will be used different human and financial resources for each ballot.

The Romanian real estate market

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?

Premium Launch Event in Bucharest

Today took place our Community Launch Event in Bucharest, at 18h, within the University of Political and Administrative Studies.

International Photo Salon

Starting with Sunday, October 21st, The International Showroom of Photography Art from Sibiu is celebrating its XII edition. With this occasion, The International Federation of Photography Art is awarding the organisers with a bronze medal.

Touring Romania

Youth employment

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.

Elections for the European Parliament

Start for a virtual Romania

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!

The activity of Romanian MPs

Jobs, housing and education – main concerns for Romanian Youth

According to a survey released by the National Authority for Youth, 97% of the young people declare themselves being concerned about getting a job, a better education and access to housing, since the prices rose very much on the market.

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.

A smoking Europe

Smokers watch out! EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner Markos Kyprianou launched on the 1st of March 2005 a four-year anti-smoking campaign „Help, for a life without tobacco”.

Stufstock Festival - the most important summer festival in Romania

Romania registered a 4.1% of inflation this July

Vara culturală în Sibiu

După concertul lui Julio Iglesias sau cel jazz al trupei poloneze Piotr Wotjtasik Band, Sibiul îşi contiună seria de evenimente europene, nu doar muzicale, şi în luna august.

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