29th November 2010
Last week I had the honour to award certificates to forty men and women of the Romanian armed forces that will soon be joining the rest of the Romanian contingent in Zabul Province in Afghanistan. They had just completed four weeks training with British military instructors as part of a course of several months spent […]
15th November 2010
This is the time of year when we remember all those killed in the First and Second World Wars, and in the conflicts since. Yesterday I visited Comana, a beautiful nature reserve and monastery not far from Bucharest. I was there with a large team from the Embassy and a number of our partners from […]
4th November 2010
Last month I joined a group of ambassadors visiting the vast and impressive Vauban Fortress at Alba Iulia. As a historian I found this a fascinating place to visit. All the different eras of Romanian history are represented here – the original Dacian settlement, the Roman legionary fortress and the magnificent Habsburg citadel in the […]
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1st November 2010
This week, I made my first official visit outside Bucharest, and chose to go to Cluj- one of the largest cities in Transylvania. Why Cluj? Because this town is becoming one of the hottest centres for IT software development. European and UK companies are getting a piece of the action. Have you had an SMS […]