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Saturday, June 28, 2014

What happened to the protest movements in Romania and Bulgaria?

The project's social and environmental costs far exceeded its benefits, and yet politicians across party lines and all mainstream media had been promoting it for 15 years, which to people, was a sure sign of corruption.
Rosia Montana became the symbol of everything that was wrong in the country. Romanians identified with the Rosia Montana's villagers who had been for years harassed by the state and foreign companies which wanted to destroy their environment in order to make profits.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/06/protest-movements-romania-bulga-201462713325276686.html 

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