Clara Volintiru
Regional Director, Black SeaEnglish
Romanian
Clara Volintiru is the Black Sea Regional Director based in Bucharest.
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October 29, 2024
The United States has engaged heavily in Romania over the years. Now Bucharest must do more in the Black Sea region, and not just given the...
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October 23, 2024
The isolation of many political parties—in power in Moldova, or in opposition in Georgia—is a larger vulnerability than the malign interference of...
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June 13, 2024
Clara Volintiru looks at Romania, where the year’s election cycle is only just beginning....
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March 28, 2024
The European Parliament elections in 2024 will shape the political direction of the EU over the next five years and, therefore, constitute a defining...
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December 12, 2023
Several plans have been designed to offer financial assistance to Ukraine, and they overlap in their demands for political and anti-corruption reforms...
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November 27, 2023
Moldova held local elections on 5 and 19 November. Clara Volintiru and Laurențiu Pleșca assess what the results of the elections told us about the...
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August 24, 2023
In our latest Quick Reads series, GMF experts comment on the ramifications of Yevgeny Prigozhin's presumed death....
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August 9, 2023
This piece was originally published on the London School of Economics' European Politics and Policy Program blog and is reproduced here with the...
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The Russia-Ukraine war has had a significant impact on the stability of states bordering the Black Sea. Bogdan Cozma and Clara Volintiru examine how...
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February 16, 2023
Anniversaries should be celebratory, but some are painful remembrances of events that elicited profound change. ...
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Cities in Central and Eastern Europe are becoming promoters of democratic values, even when central governments are acting otherwise....
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The European Union is stepping up to the economic challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic with a €750 billion recovery plan called Next Genera...