Something is rotten in the state of Romania

There is a saying in Romania: "Beautiful country, too bad it's inhabited." It is the kind of black humour Romanians developed during the dark years of Communist dictatorship, when they had given up hope anything will ever change.

Sadly, after travelling through the country for a week, one can witness a similar sense of hopelessness returning to Romanian society.

People are angry, upset, disappointed. They blame the politicians, whose main reason when taking up a post on local or...