Policy of Bucharest

Hello there!

The next stop on our amazing trip Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It’s quite different from all the cities we’ve visited so far. I didn’t knew a lot about the city before we arrived and I was very curious about the way the country worked so I’m going to talk about policy in this blog.

Every big city had its own policy and  each has its own characteristics. The city has six different areas and to give you a look at the working of the city I’m going to highlight each area to you. Each area belongs to a couple of different quarters.

Area 1

This is the biggest area of the six areas and is situated in the Nord-West of the capital of Romania. This area has a surface of 117 km² and has 238.217 inhabitants. This district contains of Bãneasa, Pipera and Floreasca.

Area 2

This is one of the smallest areas and is situated in the East of the capital of Romania. The surface is very little, about 32 km². A thing which I found very strange is that there are more inhabitants in this little distract in spite of the inhabitant amount in the big area. This area counts 362.609 inhabitants, which is a lot for such a little surface. 

Area 3

Area 4 and 5 are just as area 3 one of the smallest districts of the capital city. The only difference is that there are a lot less inhabitants (107.946) in this 2 small areas. Area 4 is situated in the South of Bucharest and Area 5 is located in the South-East of Bucharest.

Area 6

This area is also stationed at the West of Bucharest and is in spite of area 1 the second biggest. This area contains out of Gjulesti, Drumul Taberei, Militari and Crângasi. The mayor of the area is Cristian Poteras who is settled in the National Liberal Party.

The local counsel of area 6 has 27 seats.

Before we went to Bucharest I read an article about the funds that Romania got from EU to make their country more attractive for the tourist. Something I found a bit strange is that they wanted to put €1,8 million in the extension and modernisation of a hotel in Bucharest. I think it must’ve been a very important hotel to lend so much money for it.

I hope I’ve given you some useful information!

See you next week!

Melissa

http://www.euractiv.com/regional-policy/romania-uses-eu-funds-modernise-bucharest-hotel-news-500419 (article)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boekarest