Victoria Stoiciu
A native of Moldova, Victoria Stoiciu (b. 1979) studied political science at the National School of Administration and Political Science in Bucharest. She is currently a programme director for the Romanian branch of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. And she is also a regular contributor to Dilema Veche and Romania liberă.
Poor and thus blameworthy: amid the ongoing Greek crisis, negative judgements on Southern Europeans appear to be gaining ground in Northern Europe. A Romanian columnist argues that such slurs form part of a simplistic and hypocritical analysis that prevents us from understanding what is really happening. 
Today the market economy holds sway over the entire continent. But can we be sure that it is really the same everywhere? In Eastern Europe, capitalists who prospered in a feudal post-communist environment have created a very particular system.