There are currently few areas where Romania can claim to be a world leader. Even the days when its female gymnasts ruled the roost are long gone, and its football team...
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There were celebrations across Romania on June 21 after a court in Bucharest sentenced Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the country’s ruling party (the PSD) and de...
Romania’s government would like you to believe that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people took to the streets of the country’s capital Bucharest on the evening...
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...
The National Bank of Romania (BNR) increased its policy rate by 25bp to 2.50 per cent on May 7, in line with the expectations of analysts and the market consensus...
Bucharest City Council has raised 555 million lei (just over 118 million euros) via a bond issue on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE). The bonds, which mature in 2028...
As widely expected, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis confirmed on April 16 that he would not be firing Laura Codruta Kovesi, the boss of the Romanian anti-corruption...
Former Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos announced on March 30 the creation of a new political party, Romania Impreuna (Romania Together). The announcement comes...
I’m grateful to Cambridge Analytica for reinforcing a valuable lesson: the importance of having my own code of ethics. Without this I could have been sucked into all...
A British public relations consultant, Rupert Wolfe-Murray, has revealed that in the summer of 2016 he was approached by Cambridge Analytica – the company at the...
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...
Laura Codruta Kovesi, the boss of Romania’s highly effective anti-corruption agency, the DNA, held an extraordinary press conference on February 14 in which she said...