The European Commission this week said that it will no longer monitor or report on Romania under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, given that all benchmarks...
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Romania moved ever so slightly closer to Schengen membership on June 8 when the European Commission published a broadly positive report looking at the country’s...
Romania has made some progress in implementing judicial reform since a Liberal-led government took office in late 2019, but needs to quicken the pace in order to meet...
The European Commission has welcomed Bulgaria’s continued progress under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), used by the Commission since 2007 to...
Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party presidential candidate for the European Commission, has claimed that Bulgaria will partially enter the Schengen Area in 2019...
The European Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority on November 13 to adopt a resolution highly critical of the Romanian government’s continued attacks on...
Less than two months before Romania assumes the rotating presidency of the European Council, the country’s EU affairs minister, Victor Negrescu, has resigned. Mr...
Bucharest’s metro system can often be notoriously, even dangerously overcrowded. During the weekday morning rush, which can last from 7am to 10am, the M2 line serving...
In a joint statement the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and the Commission’s First Vice-President Frans Timmermans warned Romania’s government...