Romanian poet exiled to New York who wrote about childhood, ageing, freedom and, above all, love The poet Nina Cassian, who has died of a heart attack aged 89 in New York her home since she gave up Romania for her safety's sake in the mid-1980s produced more than 30 volumes of witty, vigorous verse, first in Romanian and, in her later years, in English. She was an entertaining reader of her own poems,...
Ukip leader says Britain has opened doors to countries that 'have not recovered from communism' The enlargement of the EU to include former Warsaw Pact countries such as Romania has created a "gateway for organised crime", the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, has said. As more damaging details emerged about the views of Ukip candidates, Farage admitted his party had made mistakes in its selection...
Bison bred in UK and Irish zoos to be released in Vanatori Neamt Nature Park in Carpathian Mountains Half a dozen rare European bison bred in captivity in the UK and Ireland have been sent to Romania to be reintroduced into the wild. European bison were driven to extinction in the wild by the early 20th century as a result of hunting and destruction of their habitat, conservationists said. Continue...
Website jobs.gov.ro was set up to combat nepotism in the civil service and it kickstarted a transparency revolution in Romania Two years ago as a first year PhD student at the National School for Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, I was browsing the internet for Romanian e-government tools to use as examples for my thesis on bringing about transparency via digital tools. Something you...
Survey shows increase in the number of new poor in seven countries and challenges the official European Union discourse Far from being over Europe's economic crisis is getting worse with disturbing levels of poverty and deprivation being noted among children and youth, says a report compiled by the Catholic charity Caritas. The survey, conducted over the course of the past year, not only challenges...
Bright red dots on buildings in the Romanian capital warn of the risk of collapse Kit Gillet ...
Throughout last year there were forecasts in several national newspapers that Britain was about to be inundated by migrants from Romania and Bulgaria. The reports became increasingly hysterical towards the end of 2013. For example, The Sun carried this in November: "A tidal wave of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is threatening to swamp Britain" . The following month, the Daily Express quoted an...
s beating heart; plus rabbit news Principles of the week QPR – £177m in debt and backing a reported legal threat to fair play rules , a year after owner Tony Fernandes set out his fair play vision : "There are people where money comes first … Ethics should come first. Principles. Principles of good business, of working a hard, honest day." • Also living the dream: Leicester reporting a £34m loss ,...
s FA chairman A Romanian court has handed prison sentences to eight football officials including the former Tottenham and Barcelona defender Gheorghe Popescu for tax evasion and money laundering. Popescu, who also played for PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona and Galatasaray, was sentenced to three years and one month. The 46-year-old, who was named player of the year in Romania six times, had been among the...
s move as "xenophobic" and evidence of "anti- Romanian and anti-immigrant rhetoric" from leading politicians and sections of the media that was at odds with Europe's basic democratic principles. "The government is trying to hide its own problems by blaming everything on Romanians – that is the feeling not only among Romanians, but generally in Brussels as well," he said. Luhan said the UK's reputation...
s history, language and customs challenges our longstanding prejudices The wider demonisation of Romanian immigrants to the UK after the recent relaxation of border controls has fuelled longstanding negative attitudes to the Roma, in particular, as work-shy thieves and troublemakers. Most seem to assume the two are one and the same, though Roma make up under 5 per cent of Romanians. Stories last year...
Romanian invasion' is Bucharest opening its land market – to the detriment of the local farming economy Amid the hysteria surrounding Romanian immigration at the beginning of this year, something crucial was forgotten: borders open both ways. As the English tabloids were throwing a tantrum about the impending "Romanian invasion", the would-be-intruders were preparing for an invasion of their own: 1...
Rudi' as a Roma Romanian representative – let me fill in the gaps about our people, culture and economy After the disappointment of not seeing waves of Romanians arriving in the UK once restrictions were lifted, some tabloids have found a new eastern European bestseller: the abuse to the benefits system. A particular case attracted my attention: the Daily Mail interviewed "Rudi" , described as "an...
s controversial film has been handed a IM 18 XXX certificate, meaning it is too explicit to be shown to the general public The second part of Lars Von Trier's film Nymphomaniac has been banned in Romania, given an IM 18 XXX certification by the country's cinema board which bars it from being shown to the general public. The film is already notorious for its sexually explicit scenes, as it tells the...
NHS data obtained by the Guardian shows which nationalities contribute to the British healthcare system Mona Chalabi ...
attitudes harden Trainee doctor Felicia Buruiana first realised the newspaper headlines warning of a tide of Romanian beggars and benefits cheats were starting to intrude on her day-to-day life when patients began taking a keen interest in her background. At first the 37-year-old got "funny looks" when she told them she was Romanian because she "didn't look like a gypsy". Then, as the political and...
s UK ambassador. So he and a Romanian journalist, Alina Matis - the foreign affairs editor of a leading title, Gndul - have carried out what he calls "a full deconstruction" of the Mail's original story. It can be found here . It is compelling stuff. But will his PCC complaint be dealt with? The commission does not usually take up third-party complaints. Update 2.30pm: I understand that the PCC have...
demands, the prime minister's official spokesman said: "We will look closely at the amendments that have been tabled." Downing Street has dispatched John Hayes, its ambassador to the Tory right, to try to reach agreement with Mills and other rebels as ministers prepare for the report stage of the immigration bill. The bill had been held up after Sir George Young, the chief whip, told No 10 that it...
s Day, the 30-year-old, who lived in a small village in rural Romania before flying into the UK to "work, earn money and go home", became the unwitting face of the UK's latest convulsion over immigration. Since then he has, in a supreme irony, been forced by frenetic media attention to leave his first job working in a carwash in Bedfordshire – although he has managed to find another this week in east...
standing, I nevertheless find it difficult to know what angle to take on this week's much anticipated mass influx of Romanians . I am filing this column, in English, on the morning of Thursday 2 January, but by the time you read it, on Sunday the 5th, it may already be appearing only in Romanian, in an attempt to court some of the 29 million potential new Observer readers the soft right predict will...