2022 has been the most ambitious year since the opening of the Dutch Romanian Library so far, both online and physically. Throughout the year we held weekly live meetings on Facebook BiebRO Mondays where we presented new books by Romanian authors, promoted literary events that took place in the Netherlands but...
Rompro Foundation informs you about the new composition of the Board of Directors. These changes will take effect on 1 June 2022: President: Dilek Yusuf Vice-President: Adrian Șuhanea Treasurer: Ana-Maria Murariu General member: Nicoleta Mituț Consultants: Cătălina Negru and Cătălina Robu The biggest change is in the role of president from Catalina Negru to Dilek Yusuf. Below they share with us their thoughts...
The present and the future interest me more than the past. Yes, I am Romanian, born in Suceava and raised on the Black Sea, but life has taken me on many waves and I have been living in Amsterdam for over 20 years. Being gay is just one of the things that define me. First and foremost, I am Jorge's partner, my life and business partner. I rely on him and his love to be able to be creative and take risks. Owning some of the biggest gay bars in the Netherlands is not easy. At the moment I am the owner of Blend and Blend XL bars in Reguliersdwarsstraat and YOLO club in Amsterdam. Besides that I am ...
"The damaging part of learning to live your life in two parts , whether in reality or fantasy, cannot be underestimated. Nothing could be trusted for what it appeared to be. In learning to hide part of yourself, you lost the ability to trust anything or anyone fully" - Alan Downs, The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up...
Hi! I'm Ane Machedonschi. I was born and raised in Bucharest, Balta Alba, Poarta 4 Faur, my mother a shoe factory worker and my father a ratb driver, divorced and each remarried. My story is long with many adventures, with successes and failures, crowned with success and disappointments...but that's not what I want to tell you about now. In 2014, somewhere in the middle...
I don't remember exactly when I started hearing jokes around me about other sexual orientations. It seems like several lifetimes have passed since then. I only know that we "suspected" and "made fun" of colleagues or friends and didn't dare discuss anything about it with them. And they probably didn't dare to tell us anything, that is.
I have a Romanian mother, the kind that holds you to her chest until you cry. The kind that, in my childhood, used to shout to you in the evening from the kitchen window to come quickly into the house before she came for you. Together with my father she managed the incredible feat, from my perspective today, of surviving communism on just two workers' salaries...
The Romanian Library of the Netherlands together with the Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are pleased to invite you to a unique event: a meeting with the Romanian author Dana Grigorcea. Dana Grigorcea debuted in 2002 in Romanian literature with short prose: a travel diary from the Holy Land. She studied German and Dutch at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in...
Dealing with a problem or conflict at work is always difficult. Especially when you are in a new country and don't know what the correct procedures should be. In this article you will find guidance on how to deal with workplace conflicts and termination of employment in the Netherlands. Conflicts in the workplace...
Working conditions in the Netherlands cause significant health risks for migrant workers, concludes a report published Monday (11 April 2022) by the Pharos Centre for Expertise on health inequality. Long working days, pressure to produce as much as possible, low income, physically demanding work and poor living conditions...
Low interest rates on bank loans have made more and more people want to buy a home in recent years. Unfortunately, high demand and increasingly limited supply have made overbidding the norm in recent years, with large cities seeing prices over €50,000 above the purchase price. That said,...
If you get a Frenchman drunk and have him write a text in German and then read it in a British accent while gargling in the middle of a thunderstorm, the result might resemble the language that about 23 million people speak every day: Dutch. Learning a foreign language is always quite a process...
