Mircea Kivu
Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu (b. 1953) specialises in the demography of communist Romania, and is a director of the market research company Imas. He regularly works for the daily România Liberă and weekly Dilema Veche.
Thousands of people from all walks of life have been demonstrating all week in Bucharest as well as all over the country against both austerity measures and a political system gangrened by corruption. It is about time that the government took their complaints seriously, warns Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu.