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  Politics of Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Politics of Romania takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Romania is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Romania's 1991 constitution, amended in 2003 proclaims Romania a democratic and social republic, deriving its sovereignty from the people.
Lipovenian Rusian Comunity of Romania (Comunitatea Ruşilor Lipoveni din România)
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 Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 under the Moldavian domnitor Alexander John Cuza.
Union of Transylvania with Romania was ratified in the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
Romania now has one of the most liberal taxation systems in Europe, and it is expected that this, along with increased foreign investment, will boost economic growth in the coming years, as well as lower corruption and bring to light the grey economy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romania   (4777 words)

  
 Romania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Romania occupies, roughly, ancient Dacia, which was a Roman province in the 2d and 3d cent.
Shortly thereafter, Romania annexed Bessarabia from Russia, Bukovina from Austria, and Transylvania and the Banat from Hungary.
In 1965, Romania was officially termed a socialist republic, instead of a people’s republic, to denote its alleged attainment of a higher level of Communism, and a new constitution was adopted.
www.bartleby.com /65/ro/Romania.html   (2599 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Romania (formerly and wrongly sometimes spelled Rumania and Roumania) is a country in southeastern Europe.
The modern Romania was born when the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia merged in 1859, and became independent in 1881.
Parts of Romania were incorporated by the Soviet Union in 1940, mostly comprising the present-day country of Moldova.
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 Romania on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Romania's acquisition of Bukovina, Transylvania, part of the Banat (the rest going to Yugoslavia, now in the constituent republic of Serbia in Serbia and Montenegro), and Crişana-Maramureş (until then a part of Hungary) was confirmed by the treaties of Saint-Germain (1919) and Trianon (1920), but the USSR did not recognize Romania's seizure of Bessarabia.
Romania was powerless (1940) to resist Soviet demands for Bessarabia and N Bukovina or to oppose Bulgarian and Hungarian demands, backed by Germany, for the S Dobruja, the Banat, Crişana-Maramureş, and part of Transylvania.
Romania's nitrogen and methanol industries: with one of the largest fertilizer and methanol industries in eastern Europe, Romania has had to adapt to the changing circumstances produced by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Romania.asp   (3252 words)

  
 Romania - About Romania - KnowledgeIsFun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The decades-long reign of president Nicolae Ceauşescu was ended with an uprising in late 1989, although ex-communists, now reformed as social democrats continue to be present in the democratically elected government.
The average gross wage per month in Romania is 8,292,762 lei as of April 2004, an increase of a significant 7.8% over the previous month.
The true size of the Roma population is unknown because it is undercounted in national censuses (for various reasons, some Gypsies choose to declare themselves as Romanians or Hungarians; usually the criterion is the language they speak).
www.knowledgeisfun.com /R/Ro/Romania.php   (1036 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Regional Politics and Instability
The political process in Romania is compounded by the complexities of transition.
Political instability, however, is not purely the domain of inefficient politicians and systems.
Present day Romania is a country that has been pieced together throughout the 1900s from parts of the empires that preceded it.
www.ce-review.org /00/2/lovatt2.html   (837 words)

  
 Romania - Gurupedia
Roman Empire in 106, which marked the beginning of a succession of invasions of Romania, although the rulers usually allowed a high degree of autonomy.
Romania reached an agreement with the IMF in August for a
Latin language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, which are also called Romanic, and are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
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 Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the 1992 census returns, the Romanian population was 22,788,993 however an estimate (not by the Romanian government) of the 2001 population is a decline to 22,364,022.
It shares land borders with, to the east, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, to the north, Ukraine, in the west with Hungary, in the south-west, the states of the former Yugoslavia and, in the south, with Bulgaria.
Romania is a sizeable country (the twelfth largest in Europe) with a total area of 237,500 squared kilometres of which water comprises 7,160 squared kilometres.
scic.cec.eu.int /Main/enlargement/lan_pres/rom_02.htm   (580 words)

  
 History of Romanians
Romania is situated in Central Europe, in the northern part of the Balkan peninsula and its territory is marked by the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube and the Black Sea.
The independence of Romania, similarly to that Serbia and Montenegro, as well as the union of Dobrudja with Romania were recognized in the Russian-Turkish peace treaty of San Stefano (March 3, 1878).
Romania was compelled to follow in the steps of her Russian ally, because on the Moldavian front the Romanian troops were interspersed with the Russian ones and it was impossible for combat to continue on one area of the front and for peace to settle on another front area, and so on.
www.roembus.org /english/romanian_links/history_of_romanians.htm   (5696 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Politics of Romania Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Romania 's 1991 constitution, amended in 2003 proclaims Romania a democracy and market economy in which human dignity, civic rights and freedoms, the unhindered development of human personality, justi...
Romania's 1991 constitution, amended in 2003 proclaims Romania a democracy and market economy in which human dignity, civic rights and freedoms, the unhindered development of human personality, justice, and political pluralism are supreme and guaranteed values.
Romania has made great progress in institutionalizing democratic principles, civil liberties, and respect for human rights since the revolution.
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 Politics of Romania - Uncyclopedia
Now Romania is ruled by Traian Basescu that leads a junta of claustrophobic maniacs who like to organise naked parties in the sewers.
No one knows how, but the Ceausescu couple became king and queen of Romania; the first law they made was that the Rumanians work twice as hard (note that the main occupation in Romania is nose picking) - so the Rumanians are the hardest nose-picking workers in the area.
At that time Văcăroiu was preety unknown on the romanian political stage, but due to heavy drinking habits of Ţuică and Palinca he made himself very popular among miners in Valea Jiului (aka betzivani or betzivani ratatzi).
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gigi_Becali   (3034 words)

  
 The Nationalism Project: Book review of Cultural Politics in Greater Romania
Intellectual, commercial and political life in these provinces were dominated by non-Romanians at the time of unification.
Cultural Politics in Greater Romania is an excellent text on Romanian ethnic relations in the 1920s; while more consideration is given to the Romanian discourse on those problems, in this case it is a strength since Livezeanu is able to focus on that position and give excellent archival support.
For scholars of nationalism, her suggestion in the introduction that Gerschenkron's theories of state intervention in industrialization can be applied to nationalism - “the state can substitute cultural policies for the structures of industrial society which Gellner stipulates as a prerequisite for the development of nationalism” (6) - is intriguing.
www.nationalismproject.org /books/bookrevs/Livezeanu.html   (570 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Romania - Government and Politics | Romanian Information Resource
THE PROMULGATION of the Constitution of 1965, in which Romania officially proclaimed its status as a socialist republic, was a milestone on its path toward communism.
Romania's political system was one of the most centralized and bureaucratized in the world.
Romania condemned the Soviet-led Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact) invasion of Czechoslovakia and was the only member of the pact to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel following the June 1967 War.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/romania/romania150.html   (708 words)

  
 Livezeanu: Cultural Politics in Greater Romania (Book Review)
Cultural Politics starts by considering the impact of three major additions to the Kingdom of Romania as a result of the peace settlements of 1918-1919.
The weak, regionally-oriented nature of Greater Romania (România Mare) was a surprise for the Romanian nationalists whose own irredentism left them unprepared to deal effectively with a multinational population in which the percentage of Romanians had dropped.
Romania's swollen bureaucracy, in alliance with the nationalist intelligentsia for whom it provided employment, attempted to compensate for the thinness of ethnic Romanian urban civil society with an interventionist strategy of cultural activism.
www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/soeg/ethnos/inhalte/inhalte9/br_livez.htm   (771 words)

  
 Romania After 1989 Version2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
People expressed their support for the historical parties that participated in Romania’s political life during the inter-war period.
A new Constitution, guaranteeing the freedom of the press, the protection of private property, and the separation of powers, was given with the further costs of several social upheavals (“mineriade”).
The signing of treaties such as the Partnership for Peace with NATO (1994), the Strategic Partnership with the United States (1996), the Protocol for Admission into NATO (March 2004) and the ending of negotiations for accession in the EU (December 2004) are all important stages in Romania's foreign policy.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~dsurdule/classweb/WorldPolitics/MySite_Variante/Romania_After_1989_Version2.htm   (490 words)

  
 IRR: Romania Extreme-Right politics
In the general elections held at the end of November, the far-right Romania Mare (Greater Romania) party polled well and now has forty-eight seats in the lower house of deputies (total 332) and twenty-one senate seats (total 137).
The refusal to allow the 72-year-old exiled former King of Romania to return to the country has become the latest event in the battle to come to terms with Romania's pro-nazi past.
The Romanian government has refused to either confirm or deny that villagers in the county of Satu Mare, in northwestern Romania, set fire to nine Roma homes, forcing dozens of Gypsy families to abandon their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring villagers.
www.irr.org.uk /europebulletin/romania/extreme_right_politics   (576 words)

  
 POLITICS: Romania Faces Political Uncertainty
With almost all the votes counted from Sunday's election, Basescu, 53, the charismatic mayor of Bucharest and head of the centre-right Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) had 51.75 percent of the vote compared to 48.25 percent for Prime Minister Adrian Nastase of the ruling Social Democracy Party (PSD).
Romania is scheduled to join the EU alongside neighbouring Bulgaria in 2007.
Negotiations with the EU ended early this month, but Brussels has expressed frustration that Romania is still far off the mark in meeting the bloc's stringent human rights and rule of law standards.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26653   (670 words)

  
 Romania : RO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Romania : RO Romania : RO Romania : RO Romania (formerly sometimes spelled Rumania and Roumania) is a country in southeastern Europe.
Main article: Politics of Romania See also: Kings of Romania, Prime ministers of Romania, Presidents of Romania
The official language is Romanian, making Romania the only Eastern Block country where a Romance language is spoken.
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 Peace Corps Online | June 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Romania: COS - Zimbabwe: Politics: Communism: Speaking Out: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If Romania had not been hijacked by communists for so many years, there is no reason to think it would have turned out much different from any Western European nation, instead of its current state of inching toward economic reform at a snail’s pace.
One of my most vivid memories of Romania is of entering the border city of Arrad and seeing the endless blocks of dreary, homogenous, soviet-era high rises.
Her uncle was a former government official who had gone into hiding in Greece after the collapse of communism and had returned a few years later.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2022179.html   (1109 words)

  
 EUguides - Romania - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The next report is expected to appear in October and will play a major role in the EU’s final decision on accession. Romania became a member of NATO on 2 April 2004.
Romania's economy experienced disruption during the transition to a market system in the early 1990s.
The prospect of Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 is proving a significant factor in attracting inward investment.
www.eubusiness.com /guides/Document.2003-08-28.3831   (397 words)

  
 The Politics of Dracula - Romania - Romania :: BootsnAll Travel Network
For much of the world outside of Romania, the name Dracula conjures up the image of an evil vampire nobleman living in a sinister-looking castle perched high on a mountainside somewhere in the haunted land of Transylvania.
In Romania this success has been met in various ways: from a quick way to make a buck from gullible tourists to paranoid nationalist accusations that "Dracula" is a Hungarian plot designed to debase a Romanian hero.
Century Romania, judging Vlad Tepes as a hero, villain, or sadistic psychopath depended on which side of the stake you stood.
www.bootsnall.com /articles/04-10/the-politics-of-dracula-romania.html   (1580 words)

  
 Romania Government & Politics News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Rosapepe, a former state delegate, former ambassador to Romania and now a regent of Maryland's state university system, he let it be known...
Romania detects new cases of avian flu in fowl
Romania confirms new case of bird flu in poultry
www.einnews.com /romania/newsfeed-Romania-Government-Politics   (1412 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Jeff German: Cabbies take back seat to politics in Romania
But she was a no-show because she was thousands of miles away in Romania declaring her candidacy for, of all things, president of the former Soviet bloc country.
Roberts, who holds dual citizenship in the United States and Romania, has since given up her title as chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party so that she can focus on politics in one country at a time.
It seems obvious that Roberts has been too busy in her native Romania to deal here at home with basic matters that affect the safety of Las Vegas cabbies, the tourism industry's ambassadors at large.
lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/commentary/2004/apr/09/516665903.html   (638 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Romania since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Those who study Romania must confront the theoretical challenges posed by a country which is undergoing a profound transformation from a repressive totalitarianism regime to a hazy and as yet unrealized democratic government.
The most comprehensive study of Romanian politics ever published abroad, this volume represents an effort to collect and analyze data on the complex problems of Romania's past and its transition into an uncertain future.
Editor Henry Carey has brought together the world's leading scholars on Romania to analyze key aspects of the country's politics, economics, and society, in a groundbreaking work which includes six resident Romanian authors, a subset of Romanian scholars which rarely publishes in the global academic press.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0739105922   (314 words)

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