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EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor

EASTERN EUROPE: BUCHAREST, Oct 29 (IPS) - Low-income Eastern Europeans contracting easy consumer loans in the mid- 2000s are now falling below poverty lines. Ioana Damian, a 47-year old social worker from Bucharest, has a monthly salary of ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: World Bank

BULGARIA: Migrants Denied Even Medicine

BULGARIA: BUCHAREST, Oct 17 (IPS) - Hasun Albaadzh, an asylum-seeker from Syria, died Oct. 6 at the Busmantsi detention centre on the outskirts of Bulgarian capital Sofia. He had been held at Busmantsi for months - considerably more than ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

ROMANIA: Government Collapse Deepens Economic Woes

ROMANIA: BUCHAREST, Oct 5 (IPS) - Romania is heading for a week of massive protests by state employees. With the governing coalition collapsing last Friday, the new minority government will have a hard time navigating between the demands ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  Social Democratic Party,  Emil Boc

EASTERN EUROPE: Fair Trade Takes Off

EASTERN EUROPE: BUCHAREST, Sep 29 (IPS) - Fair trade is becoming popular in Central and Eastern Europe, as activist groups raise awareness of the region's responsibility towards the rest of the world, and open an increasing number of fair ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  29 Sep 2009

EASTERN EUROPE: Disabled Seek to Move In From the Margins

EASTERN EUROPE: BUCHAREST, Sep 17 (IPS) - At 37, Dimo Kokorkov, a carpenter from Stara Zagora in central Bulgaria is "broken-hearted". Dimo says this to describe his sense of deep injustice after being systematically abused in prison ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ministry of Justice,  European Union,  United Nations

EUROPE: Easterly Wind Picks Up

EUROPE: BUCHAREST, Aug 24 (IPS) - The natural conditions in Romania and Bulgaria make these countries some of the best placed in Europe for producing wind energy. Interest in investing in wind power is high in both countries, but ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  24 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Erste Bank,  European Union,  ENEL

EUROPE: Small Farmers Lost in Transition

EUROPE: BUCHAREST, Aug 18 (IPS) - "Our country would have gone through the economic crisis much smoother had we invested more in agriculture over the past 20 years, and had we not wasted so many resources on consumption," Romanian ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: European Union

Q&A: 'Time to De-Grow'

Q&A: Claudia Ciobanu interviews economist SERGE LATOUCHE BUCHAREST, Aug 3 (IPS) - Serge Latouche, professor emeritus of economic science at the University of Paris-Sud, is one of the main proponents of "the society of de-growth". He calls ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU INTERVIEWS ECONOMIST SERGE LATOUCHE, Inter Press Service,  3 Aug 2009

RIGHTS-BULGARIA: Two Women Take on Defence Ministry

RIGHTS-BULGARIA: BUCHAREST, Jul 29 (IPS) - Two young women are suing Bulgaria's Ministry of Defence over gender discrimination in the mainly ceremonial, National Guard - a case that could go a long way in changing patriarchal social norms. ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: United States National Guard,  Ministry of Defence

EDUCATION: Not This Romanian Way

EDUCATION: BUCHAREST, Jul 21 (IPS) - One of three students in Romania studies at Spiru Haret University, the largest private university in the country. But more than 100,000 students, recent and older graduates, could be left without their ...

From CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Inter Press Service,  21 Jul 2009

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