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A Eurocrat’s guide to Bucharest
As Romania takes over the EU’s rotating presidency, some top tips on surviving and enjoying the country’s capital.
- Carmen Paun
- Politico
Dear Eurocrat,
After a respite in Vienna, it’s time to head back to Europe’s wild east for the Romanian presidency of the Council of the EU.
If you survived Sofia, Bucharest should not come as a shock.
The Communist-era tower blocks you saw in Bulgaria feature across most neighborhoods in the Romanian capital.
The city’s biggest clean-up: It got rid of its stray dogs, including by euthanizing more than 25,000 of them in recent years.
Bucharest is fast, loud and sometimes aggressive.
But it also…