Sociology

Minister announces "change of electoral system"

Minister announces "change of electoral system"

BELGRADE -- Deputy PM and Public Administration and Local Self-Government Minister Kori Udovicki has announced "changes to the electoral system on all levels."

Speaking over the weekend, she noted that that a combination of "majoritarian and proportional electoral systems" was #the best solution."

IRES survey finds DNA, DIICOT trusted by majority of Romanians

A survey conducted by polling agency IRES (the Romanian Institute for Assessment and Strategy) between March 9 - 10 found that 63 percent of the Romanians have high and very high confidence in the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), while the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) enjoys the trust of 55 percent of the citizens.

Football racism highlights Europe's struggle with transition and entrenched racism

Recent football-related racism highlights European nations? tortured transition from ethnically relatively homogeneous to multicultural immigration societies amid a resurgence of entrenched racial, including anti-Semitic, attitudes that flourish in times of economic crisis and are not limited to Muslim communities.

JusMin Cazanciuc: Plugging jail capacity shortage requires 1 bln euro worth of investments

Minister of Justice Robert Cazanciuc said on Friday in Constanta that building new penitentiaries to plug the current jail capacity shortage of about 11,000 inmates requires investments of approximately one billion euros.

Photo credit: (c) Constantin DUMA

Two different time zones

By Maria Katsounaki

In the last few days people in Greece have been living in two very different time zones: real time and political time. While no one living in real time can escape it, not even for a moment, the only winner to emerge from the latter is the political system itself.

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