Romania’s incumbent President Traian Basescu looks to have won re-election today (7 December), narrowly defeating a leftist challenger to the job of leading the EU newcomer out of political and economic crises.
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The Socialists and the Liberals, who finished behind ruling President Traian Basescu after the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, agreed to form a coalition  on 23 November with the aim of outperforming the incumbent in the 6 December run-off.
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Incumbent Traian Basescu won the first round of Romania’s presidential election on 22 November, exit polls showed, but the slim margin gave few clues as to who would form the next government and help resolve the economic crisis.
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Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, young Romanians laugh heartily at a film reminding them of the “Golden Age”, as totalitarianism is commonly referred to. But the scars left by the Ceausescu dictatorship are still visible, Adrian Lungu, chief editor of EurActiv Romania writes.
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An article of the Bulgarian contemporary author Georgy Gospodinov that refresh our memory about the events that precede 10th of November when the change of the system was officially announced: “On 10th of November it was announced to us that we were free. But there were more significant dates in the same 1989 that [...]

The UK government said on 3 November it would keep restrictions on the number of Romanians and Bulgarians allowed to work in Britain until the end of 2011 to protect British workers during the recession.
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The flaws in Eastern Europe’s model of growth have been exposed by the financial crisis and commodity-reliant countries like Russia must expand their industrial base to make them more resilient, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an annual report on 2 November.
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US President Barack Obama sees Eastern Europe as a “Bush administration project” and is not conscious of the need to counter growing Russian influence there, Edward Lucas, who has been The Economist’s correspondent for Eastern Europe for over 20 years, told EurActiv Slovakia in an interview.
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Adrian Severin, a prominent centre-left Romanian MEP, is preparing to bid for the EU foreign policy job to be created by the Lisbon Treaty once it is ratified, EurActiv has learned from several sources in Brussels and Bucharest.
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