Romania: bad and good news from the EU periphery & social and trade union situation in CEE
24 June 2012
1. INTRODUCTION The good news is that the much hated anti-social and anti-democratic Government that imposed some of the most aggressive Austerity measures in Europe long before similar measures would be taken in Greece, Portugal, Spain or Ireland, fell a couple of weeks ago following a motion put forth by the opposition in the Romanian Parliament. The new Administration is the Social-Liberal Union (USL), i.e. an alliance between the Social-Democrat Party and the Liberal Party. However, it (...)