Romania: Politics · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Two blogs comment on the situation in Romania. Transatlantic Politics: “Four months after Romanian accession, it is clear that not even the post-accession monitoring mechanisms imposed by Brussels and the threat of safeguard clauses are real means of pressure for the Romanian politicians.” Romerican: “I often sense a deep hopelessness among the Romanian people who generally perceive the political process as something done by others in a unreachable place.”