23rd July 2012
I spent last weekend with friends in Bran, the favourite mountain refuge of Queen Marie of Romania in her later years. I’m reading her biography at the moment, and came across a lovely entry in her diary in 1934. Queen Marie was in the UK in the spring of that year to promote her book, […]
19th July 2012
Yesterday the Commission published its five year reports on Romania and Bulgaria under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. The CVM monitors and supports reforms undertaken by both countries to strengthen the rule of law, reform the judiciary and tackle corruption. The Commission sets out its concerns about the recent political crisis in Romania. William Hague […]
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12th July 2012
I had a rare treat yesterday evening. A troupe of travelling actors turned up in the George Enescu square and put on a free show for the Bucharest public. The play was Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like it’. The actors happened to be from William Shakespeare’s very own theatre, the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London. For […]
6th July 2012
Many people have asked me for an opinion about the latest developments in Romania. Here’s a link to what I said yesterday in an interview for Ziarul Financiar.
16th June 2012
Congratulations to Stan Platt OBE! Stan has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Stan is a long-standing and highly-respected member of the British community in Romania. He and his wife Camelia do fantastic work for visually-impaired people in this country, providing equipment like […]
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11th June 2012
Astăzi organizăm o serie de evenimente în București dedicate sărbătoririi a 60 de ani de domnie a Majestății Sale Regina Elisabeta a II-a a Regatului Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei de Nord. Se întâmplă doar a doua oară în istorie când un suveran britanic sărbătorește un Jubileu de Diamant și sunt bucuros că pot […]
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11th June 2012
Today we are holding a series of events here in Bucharest to mark the 60th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is only the second time in our long history that the British sovereign has celebrated a […]
14th May 2012
Victor Ponta’s new government got off on the right foot last week by making clear that its economic policy will continue to be framed within the programme agreed between Romania and the EU, World Bank, and IMF. The IMF programme sets out what Romania needs to do, both in terms of fiscal consolidation and structural […]
14th May 2012
I very recently took part in the launch of a new book covering the most remarkable chapter in the history of relations between Britain and Romania. Professor Costel Coroban has researched and presented the extraordinary story of the Scottish women’s ambulance corps (known as the Grey Partridges because of the colour of their uniforms). This […]
23rd April 2012
I returned last week from Bucovina, in the far north of Romania, where I spent Orthodox Easter with my family, my godson and his brother and parents, who were visiting from the UK. There can be few better places in the world to spend Easter than among the fabled painted monasteries of Bucovina. Here five […]