16th January 2019
King Charles Street, London
Last month I attended the last in a series of round-tables events about the opportunities for UK and EU collaboration in science after Brexit. UK Embassies across Central and Eastern Europe hosted academics and policy-makers to discuss the future of UK and EU collaboration on science after we leave the EU. Through my internship at […]
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8th May 2018
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As part of our ongoing campaign, #BritainInRomania, to illustrate the close ties between our two countries, the British Embassy has been working with museums across Romania in all those cities which have at one stage hosted a British Consulate. This took me last month to the Museum of Oltenia in Craiova, for the launch of […]
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8th February 2018
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The staff of the British embassy in Bucharest gathered this week beside a large flag with three horizontal stripes: purple, white and green. What was this about? One hundred years ago this week Royal Assent was received for the 1918 Representation of the People Act, an important milestone in women’s suffrage in Britain and one […]
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16th November 2017
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Oina is a traditional Romanian sport, whose origins appear to be quite ancient. Some believe that the name derives from the Cuman word for “game”, and it does seem to have a linguistic association with many Turkic languages. Other theories place its origins in shepherding, given its closeness to the Romanian word for sheep. While […]
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19th September 2017
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George Enescu, who died in 1955, is Romania’s most celebrated composer. A child prodigy, he wrote an opus for piano and violin entitled “Romanian Land” at the age of five. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then the Conservatoire de Paris. As well as a prolific composer, he was a distinguished conductor, and was […]
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19th September 2017
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One of the strands of the Embassy’s current #BritainInRomania campaign is to highlight all of the cities in Romania in which the UK has ever had a consulate or other form of diplomatic representation. This took me earlier this month to Focșani, capital of the county of Vrancea, some three hours drive to the north […]
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2nd August 2017
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The UK is currently negotiating with our partners on our withdrawal from the European Union, following the outcome of the referendum in June last year. But as Prime Minister Theresa May has underlined, while we are leaving the EU we are not leaving Europe. We are determined to develop our deep and special partnerships with […]
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5th January 2017
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January is a time for looking both back and forward, rather like the Roman God Janus. Here’s a personal selection of a dozen of the highlights of a busy and productive 2016 at the British Embassy Bucharest. In January I was in London for the DIT Civil Nuclear Showcase, talking to UK companies in the […]
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6th December 2016
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The small town of Sangeorgiu de Padure, in Mures County in the heart of Transylvania, has a mostly ethnic Hungarian population and an unexpected connection to the British Royal Family. At the heart of the town is the two-storey white-walled Rhedey Castle, actually more palace than castle, which dates originally from the 17th century, though […]
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29th November 2016
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Ghidigeni is a village, easily overlooked, in southern Moldova, just off the main road between Tecuci and Barlad. Just next door to the town hall a locked metal gate stands in front of the Chrissoveloni Palace, built in the late 19th century in a French neoclassical style, but having endured a particularly tough history. I […]
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