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      "id": 102986,
      "date": "2001-04-12",
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      "title": "Romania After the 2000 Elections: Background and Issues for Congress",
      "summary": "In parliamentary and presidential elections on November 26, 2000, the Romanian electorate\nrestored\nto power the reformed communist party that it had voted out of office four years earlier; in addition,\nIon Iliescu, president from 1990-1996, received a plurality of the presidential votes. During a run-off\nelection on December 10, Iliescu defeated Vadim Tudor, an extremist nationalist candidate. \nRomania is one of Europe's poorest countries; successive governments have been slow to make\nnecessary reforms to jumpstart the economy and attract needed foreign investment. There have been\nindications that, despite pressure from international institutions, the new government may attempt\nonly a gradual approach to reform. With a minority mandate, Iliescu and his Party of Social\nDemocracy in Romania will need the cooperation of other parties to privatize and restructure the\neconomy. Romania's foreign policy, which for the past decade has emphasized integration into the\nEU and NATO, is not expected to change. On January 1 , 2001, Romania assumed the revolving\nchairmanship of the OSCE.",
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