17th December 2015
Next up in our list of video blogs is Dana Tane, who has worked for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement around the world, from Ethiopia to Nepal. In this piece she looks at the challenges currently faced by humanitarian workers. Dana Tane was one of main speakers for the project’s seminar in […]
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14th December 2015
In this fourth episode of the Soft Skills in Hard Times, our guest blogger, Madalina Vlangar, explains how soft skills can make a difference when working in law enforcement and peace keeping operations. Madalina Vlangar is working as an Internal Affairs Attaché at the Romanian Embassy in Spain, and was one of our guest speakers […]
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7th December 2015
My guest blogger for this post is Chris Barton, who works as Director of International Trade and Export Control, within the British Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. In this video, he shares his views on using soft skills in the context of trade negotiations.
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2nd December 2015
Last week the embassy organised a seminar as part of the ‘Soft Skills in Hard Times. Remembering the Service of Great Romanian and British Women’ project. Entitled ‘Nothing Quiet on the Eastern and Western Fronts’, the event aimed to focus on the work of Romanian and British women in promoting peace, security and humanitarian support. Guest […]
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27th November 2015
In the first of this video blog series, my Deputy Head of Mission, Adam Sambrook, shares his views on using soft skills in the context of climate change negotiations. The series is part of the project ‘Soft Skills in Hard Times. Remembering the Service of Great Romanian and British Women,’ which aims to both commemorate […]
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18th November 2015 Bucharest, Romania
Forty pairs of eyes watched us curiously in the library of the Josika Miklos High School. The teachers of the “Hungarian School”, as the high-school is known in this Transylvanian town still suffering the effects of de-industrialization and subsequent migration, invited me to talk to the students about trafficking in persons. Much to their praise, […]
12th November 2015
We held a learning and development week at the British Embassy last month. Alongside training courses ranging from performance management to social media I decided to put together a slightly more light-hearted finale. We would attempt to identify the pieces of music which, in the view of Embassy staff, best represent Romania and Britain. I […]
10th November 2015
The Magna Carta was a document designed to establish peace between the rather unpopular King John of England and a group of rebel barons. Yet this piece of thirteenth-century English domestic politics still resonates around the world eight hundred years on from the events which forged it. For in establishing that no one, even the […]
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30th September 2015
SMURD might sound to the British ear like one of those evil syndicates aiming to take over the world in a sixties spy caper. Or possibly a new brand of detergent. But the acronym actually stands for “Serviciul Mobil de Urgenta, Reanimare si Descarcerare”. It is a Romanian mobile emergency service, which began life in […]
23rd September 2015
One of the many great NGOs in Romania with which the Embassy has a long-established relationship is the Romanian branch of the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF). We provided support to the WWF for example in helping to bring the Earth Hour initiative to Romania. I was therefore delighted to accept this month an […]