Compile and distribute publicly and to the Romanians themselves abriefanalysis of the events in Romania since the overthrow of Ceausescu and an assessment of the fairness of the electoral process to date.
Now, abriefanalysis of 10 European countries published Thursday in the Lancet --- the first to use government data on suicide rates from the past few years -- suggests that the ongoing economic downturn may be no different, and in fact may have had a larger impact on suicide rates than expected.