Politics

How Romania's patronage machine just ate the government trying to reform it [ANALYSIS] 

Stuart Dowell
 06.05.2026, 15:58
A view of the government members' empty seats after the Bolojan cabinet was dismissed due to a no-confidence vote held in a plenary session of the Parliament in Bucharest on May 5. (PAP/EPA)
A view of the government members' empty seats after the Bolojan cabinet was dismissed due to a no-confidence vote held in a plenary session of the Parliament in Bucharest on May 5. (PAP/EPA)

The EU's August funding deadline forced a choice between reform and survival.