It’s not the relative success of a radical populist party that threatens democracy in Romania, but the rejection of its existing political class. Fewer than a...
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Exit polls point to narrow victory for former ruling party, but it is unlikely to win enough seats to form a government. The Social Democratic party (PSD) has won a...
Romania’s ruling Liberal party looks set to win a parliamentary election on December 6 but is unlikely to take enough seats to govern alone. Fewer than 40 per of...
Local elections are rarely as important as those which took place in Romania on September 27, just two months before the country votes for a new parliament. The...
Where other cities in Romania have progressed enormously in recent years – most notably Cluj in Transylvania, and Oradea in the western Banat region – the country’s...
In extraordinary circumstances, Romania’s parliament has voted to approve the appointment of a new government, led by the Liberal party’s (PNL) Ludovic Orban. The...
Romania’s government has been ousted in a vote of no confidence, just three months and one day after taking office. The vote paves the way for an early parliamentary...
A quick headcount of passengers on a midnight plane to Georgia – the 00:40 flight from Bucharest to Tbilisi – provides a glimpse at the problems facing...
Klaus Iohannis has comfortably won the second round of Romania’s presidential election, held on November 24. Mr Iohannis, 60, the incumbent president, won around...
The Liberal party’s (PNL) Klaus Iohannis comfortably won the first round of Romania’s presidential election. Iohannis, the current president, won 38 per cent...
Klaus Iohannis was the clear winner of the first round of the Romania’s presidential election on November 10, taking almost 38 per cent of the vote. Mr Iohannis...
The casual visitor to the Romanian capital Bucharest could be forgiven for being entirely ignorant of the fact that the country is just days away from a...
