“There is life after this motion,” said Sorin Grindeanu, the interim leader of Romania’s Social Democratic Party, after Parliament voted to bring down Ilie Bolojan’s government. He meant it as reassurance. In Romania, reassurance often sounds like something said over a body that is still warm. The no-confidence motion, initiated by PSD together with the far-right AUR, passed with 281 votes, collapsing a government that had been built less than a year earlier to stabilise the