30th April 2012
Bucharest, Romania
So you’ve checked the embassy’s call for interns here and you have decided to apply for an internship at the British Embassy! If you are an undergraduate or graduate student with an economic/political background interested in EU economy/ political affairs, you are about to step into one of the most competitive and dynamic job markets […]
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4th April 2012
Bucharest, Romania
I’m continuing my section of guest bloggers with Felicia Alexandru, our Senior Political Officer. I invited Felicia to talk about a recent project she worked on, organising a seminar on asset recovery, set up in partnership with the Romanian Ministry of Justice and also the National Anticorruption Directorate. Let’s find out more! Romania and the […]
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2nd April 2012
Bucharest, Romania
Third in our series of Great Britons in Romania is Ian Tilling, founder of Casa Ioana, a charity devoted to Bucharest’s homeless. Guest blog by Ian Saunders, our colleague from the embassy. Ian arrived in Romania in 1990 and settled in Bucharest in 1992. His wish was to convert a block in a deprived area […]
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21st March 2012
Bucharest, Romania
Eduárd Novák (36 yrs old) , cyclist from the Tusnad Cycling Team, Miercuri Ciuc, Romania has become world champion for the third time, after he took gold in the 4 km pursuit race at the veladrome, at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles. Eduárd succeeded in defeating the Czech rider Jiri Jezek, the […]
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22nd February 2012
Bucharest, Romania
Second in our series of blogs about Great Britons in Romania are Shajjad and Katie Rizvi, founders of The Little People – a charity dedicated to providing psycho-social and educational services to children suffering from cancer. Shajjad came to Romania in early 1990 to deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid. He planned to stay for […]
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13th February 2012
Bucharest, Romania
Guest blog: I am Iulian Craciun and I am a disabled person. So what? I learned that in order to be successful in life you need to build your own luck. Not to wait from others. I’ve learned that you are the only person that can really make a difference in shaping your destiny. “You […]
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11th January 2012
Bucharest, Romania
There are many Brits doing great things in Romania, like David Savage and Ben Wells from the Nightingales Children’s Project, a charity based in Cernavoda, 200kms from Bucharest. David came to Romania in 1993 to work in a local orphanage, and soon realised that there was a large number of children living in the orphanage […]
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23rd December 2011
Bucharest, Romania
Blog post by Cora Motoc and Peter Thomas from the Political team in the British Embassy As we all know Christmas is all about giving. So for the second year running the British Embassy was very pleased to participate in the “Santa’s for everyone” campaign by collecting toys and clothes to donate to urban and […]
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24th November 2011
Bucharest, Romania
British philanthropist Graham Perolls and his superb team at Casa Sperantei have been supporting Romanian charity sector for almost two decades now. As British Ambassador Martin Harris commented recently, Casa Sperantei is a British strategic investment in humanness. Graham is sharing with us details of his latest project aimed at helping terminally-ill patients in Bucharest […]
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