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...
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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...
Last summer, while enjoying goulash at one of the many fine restaurants on Piața Mare, the main square of the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, my daughter quite innocently...
I came of age during Romania’s post-communist transition, at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. I had lived, as a child, in totalitarianism, and...
Romania is set to hold a divisive constitutional referendum on October 7 after the country’s senate voted to approve an amendment that would change the...
Emerging Europe's editor-in-chief Craig Turp - who lives in the Romanian capital - talks to Ciprian Ciucu, a city councillor taking the fight for a better Bucharest to...
