Headlining with “Seven town-hall wonders,” Gândul launches a front-page attack on “the extraordinary inventions” that local and municipal politicians have brought to Romania. The examples cited by the daily include a fountain that plays the “Ode to Joy,” a sightseeing bus that is too wide to navigate the streets of Brasov, and two glass pyramids inspired by I.M. Pei’s design for the Louvre courtyard. One mayor spent a fortune decommissioning and installing two WWII artillery pieces because “they look so pretty in the evening.” In the meantime, Gândul reminds its readers, large sections of the “population have no access to hot water.”
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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