Freedom of Speech, really?

Bucharest Daily News was an English-language newspaper operating out of the Romanian capital city, Bucharest, and was frequently cited as a source by the sudden influx of Romanian news articles on Wikinews. It covered various usual beats including world and local news, politics, business, arts and leisure as well as sports. It also included feature stories. In early 2006, the publication received a lot of attention for a series on the effects of an EU-imposed ban on international adoptions from Romania which was written by journalist Denisa Maruntoiu. The articles called attention to the poor conditions in Romanian orphanages and children's hospitals at the same time as the ban was being lauded by former European Parliament Rapporteur for Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson.
The Daily News staff was given their usual summer holiday in August 2006. While the paper's website was published and updated for a few months after this, the printing of the paper was ceased and, much to the surprise of the journalists and copy editors, questionable business practices have shut Bucharest Daily News' doors for an unknown length of time. Currently the paper is still not being published and the website is down.

Kels' comments : For over a year now I've been wondering what happened to this paper. It was the only Romanian based news that was completely honest about the orphan situation here. I remember those articles from 2006... Communism and the restriction on freedom of speech is supposed to be over people! Emma Nicholson's bad decisions from when she WAS in power (she's the one who closed down international adoptions - said the kids "didn't want to be adopted") still affects the 'now.' I don't know, there's lots of drama going on right now with the government here. The news people speak so fast it's hard for me to understand completely what's going on with President Basescu but I know that they want him out. He was supposed to resign etc...