Romania: Bureaucrat Timmermans puts straw on the coal fire in (...)

February 23, 2021

Bureaucrat Timmermans puts straw on the coal fire in Romania
Feb 23, 2021

Bureaucrat Timmermans puts straw on the coal fire in Romania.

By Constantin Radut Romania has recently experienced a new drama whose protagonists were the miners from the Jiu Valley. The Jiu Valley was one of the richest areas for the extraction of underground coal used in the steel industry and in the electricity industry. Slowly, slowly the resources (...)

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