9th October 2012 Bucharest, Romania
Today I would like to present the story of yet another great Briton in Romania, as told by Peter Thomas, Head of Political Team in the British Embassy in Bucharest: Fifth in our series of Great Britons in Romania is Sally Wood-Lamont, President of the Romanian National Paralympics Committee and founder of the Lamont Centre, a […]
1st October 2012
Last month, I hosted a reception with Inchcape Motors. This is one of the oldest British companies in the automotive business, and here in Romania it is the distributor for Toyota and Lexus. The international automotive industry has great potential to deliver growth for Britain’s economy, and so the reception was to introduce Lexus’ new […]
27th September 2012
Members of Parliaments across Europe are finding themselves subject to more and more scrutiny these days from public institutions, the press and from their own electorates. Romania has the National Integrity Agency (ANI) which is setting new standards in public life. This month an MP’s mandate was revoked on the grounds of incompatibility, implementing ANI’s […]
24th September 2012
The Royal Air Force is about to take delivery of one of its newly upgraded helicopters from the Eurocopter plant at Ghimbav, near Brasov. I was there on Friday to see the helicopter make its first flight post-upgrade, along with Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta and Lord Davies, chairman of the All-Party Group on Romania […]
5th September 2012 Bucharest, Romania
This week I invited Cristina Bazavan, blogger and friend, to guest blog about the Paralympic Games. Cristina has just returned from the Games in London so she can tell us more about the unseen side of the people, the places and the emotions she experienced. Let’s find out more! Check Cristina’s blogs in Romanian. Find […]
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3rd September 2012
Last weekend was a great weekend for Romania at the London 2012 velodrome. Many congratulations to Eduard Novak for first beating the world record in the qualifiers for the Men’s Individual C4 Pursuit, and then going on to win Romania’s first ever Paralympics Gold Medal in the final. Eduard is an amazing athlete, making his […]
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 […]
21st August 2012 Bucharest, Romania
The following is a guest blog by Sally Wood-Lamont, President of the Romanian National Paralympic Committee. The Romanian Paralympic team are currently at their Pre-Paralympic Games training camp in Knowsley, Liverpool. The cycling team, with athletes Eduard Novak, currently world champion in both the road and track events with Torok Imre a fellow cyclist from […]
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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 […]