Romania: “Revolution of Decency”
Power & Politics World reports on the protests in Romania, sparked by budget cuts and the resignation of deputy health minister Raed Arafat. Csíkszereda Musings writes about Raed Arafat and the government's policies: “Basescu and his government seem hell bent on using the excuse of ‘austerity’ to destroy education, healthcare and pretty much everything else that the country actually needs.” GV's Ruslan Trad is posting links to media reports on the protests on the GV-CEE Facebook page.
Written byVeronica Khokhlova
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Is Arafat of Arab origins ???
Yes, and the second and third links here talk more about him.
Arafat is naturalized Syrian Palestinian, living in Romania since middle of 80s.
Thanks a lot Ruslan and Veronica, the story is quite interesting and somehow and in one of the rares occasion we hear mentionning an arab name with praise n without accusations of corruption, terrorism .. and so on
and to say, that next monday i start my Romanian language Class :)