Fiat challenges Dacia Logan with 5000 Euro car
Topic: Auto, Economy (Sep 6, 2006)
Plans by Fiat to counterballance the supremacy of Renault with Dacia Logan on the cheap car market in Europe are gaining pace as Italian newspaper Il Giornale has revealed the Italian company prepares a 5,000 euro model to be launched by the end of 2006.
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Steaua Bucharest to face Real Madrid in Champions League
Topic: Sport (Sep 6, 2006)
Romanian football team Steaua Bucharest learned August 24 that it would face Real Madrid, Olympique Lyon and Dinamo Kiev in the E Group of the Champions League after beating Standard Liege in the preliminaries.
Steaua managed to defeat Standard Liege 2-1 despite three key players were missing at the game. The two goals were scored by Valentin Badea.
It is the first time in ten years that a Romanian team reaches the Champions League groups. Ten years ago, in 1996, Steaua defeated another team from Belgium in the last preliminary game, FC Bruges. Eric Deflandre, captain of the Belgium team in 2006, played the 1996 match also.
Another 10 years ago, in 1986, Steaua Bucharest won the Champions Cup semifinal against Anderlecht Bruxelles (yes, another team from Belgium!). They also won the 1986 Champions Cup in a match against Real Madrid.
Over 190,000 Dacia Logans sold
Topic: Auto, News (Jul 15, 2006)
Over 190,000 Dacia Logan cars have been sold since the model was launched in September 2004. 106 Logan cars were sold last year alone, according to car maker Automobile Dacia, a division of French car manufacturer, Renault. (more…)
Depeche Mode concert – first time in Bucharest
Topic: Entertainment (Jun 25, 2006)
Some 42 to 44,000 people attended one of the biggest music events in the history of post-Communist Romania: a Depeche Mode concert in Bucharest on Friday.
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What Romanians think: Hungarians are “diligent”, Gypsies are “lazy, thieves”
Topic: News (Jun 24, 2006)
Romanian and Hungarian citizens in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca overwhelmingly trust and get along with each other, but the overall image of the relations between Romanians and Hungarians, on one hand, and Romanians and Rroma (Gypsies) on the other hand is rather bad, a new poll shows.
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“We f… up Western agriculture, now we’ll f… up Romania’s”
Topic: Economy, News (Jun 4, 2006)
Romania has delicious farming products as the West no longer remembers but international groups come to the country to destroy its agriculture as they did in the west, according to one of the characters of “We feed the worldâ€, the most successful documentary in Germany and Austria over the past decade.
“We f…ed up the West and now we’re coming to Romania, we will f… up all the agriculture thereâ€, says Karl O., a former Pioneer manager in Romania, in the documentary.
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Dracula’s Castle returned (but not to Dracula in person)
Topic: News, Travel (May 26, 2006)
The Bran Castle in Central Romania, the fortress the legend says belonged to Dracula but where the real, Middle Age Wallachian leader thought to be Dracula was once imprisoned was returned to its old owners, the Habsburg family, on Friday. The Gothic fortress, perched on a rock, has appeared in numerous Dracula movies.
The retrocession process gives the castle to Dominic von Habsburg, a US architect and son of Princess Ileana of Romania.
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Romania takes fourth place in Eurovision contest. Lordi’s Hard Rock Hallelujah beat Tornero
Topic: Entertainment (May 23, 2006)
Romanian singer Mihai Traistariu took the fourth place in the Eurovision music contest with his high-octane song Tornero on Saturday. Seen as a favorite before the start of the event, he brought home the best ever points received by Romania in the European competition won by Finnish heavy metal band Lordi.
“I’m pleased with the result! I believe in Tornero and now I’m more certain than ever that it will be successful anywhere in Europe”, Traistariu said following his participation in the contest.
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Lordi first words after they won Eurovision 2006
Topic: Entertainment (May 21, 2006)
“How weird is this? How cool is this?†said lead singer Mr Lordi, at a press conference minutes after his hard rock band Lordi had won the 51st Eurovision Song Contest.
“Think about it, a rock band just won a pop song contest. This is weird, strange, interesting. This is for all rock fans, hard rock fans, metal fans and Kiss fans.â€
He then sang the chorus of Lithuania entry, ‘We Are The Winners’.
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Eurovision winners: And the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest winner is…. Lordi!
Topic: Entertainment (May 21, 2006)
The Eurovision Grand Prix winners in the last 5 years (more…)
