In 2014, Romania’s then prime minister, Victor Ponta, was forced to hand back his doctorate after it emerged that much of his thesis had been plagiarised. The country’s...
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Women are hard to find in the new Romanian government: just one of the 21 cabinet ministers in Florin Cîțu’s executive is female. Erstwhile finance chief...
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...
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...
A referendum in October 2018 that, if successful, would have redefined the understanding of the word ‘family’ in the Romanian constitution as “a man and a woman” was...
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...
On the same day that air pollution in Bucharest was shown to be as bad as Sydney, Australia, a city currently struggling to cope with the effects of unprecedented...
With just a few notable – and commendable – exceptions, of which Estonia and Georgia are not the least, emerging Europe remains mired in a confusing, off-putting...
The European Commission has welcomed Bulgaria’s continued progress under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), used by the Commission since 2007 to...
ALDE, the junior party in Romania’s ruling coalition, has announced that it is pulling its ministers out of the government amidst a row over government restructuring and...