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Romanian prime minister and cabinet resign en masse
The Romanian prime minister and his cabinet have resigned after weeks of sometimes violent protests over widespread corruption and austerity measures. Emil Boc said on Monday he was quitting "to release the tension in the country's political and social situation". During his three-year rule, salaries of state employees were cut by a quarter and VAT increased by 5%, while the European debt crisis hit Romania's exports hard. It was a toxic combination in a country which was already the second poorest in the EU, better off only than Bulgaria, which also joined the union in 2007. The collapse of Boc's cabinet marks the ... (full story)
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