29th August 2012
Tonight is the opening ceremony of London 2012 Paralympic Games. Romania will be competing with its largest ever paralympic team, almost double the size of its delegation to Beijing four years ago. And this will be the largest Paralympic Games ever, with over two million tickets sold, and all the venues selling out fast. I […]
23rd August 2012
The Foreign Office made a statement yesterday evening on the political situation in Romania. Romania has had a long, hot summer. My hope (as an optimist) is that temperatures will fall in the autumn and that the focus will be on economic and institutional reform and strengthening the rule of law. There are important decisions […]
16th August 2012
I’ve just returned from two weeks in the UK, when our whole nation was on the edge of our seats watching the captivating spectacle of the London 2012 Olympic Games – whether at the venues themselves, in the big parks where the events were screened live or at home in front of the TV. Let […]
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 […]