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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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...
Across Romania, people will vote on September 27 in local elections that – in the absence of any reliable opinion polls – will provide the most accurate gauge of...
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...
Mentioning piracy in a positive context in today’s emerging Europe business and entrepreneurial circles is bound to be met with disapproval. After all, the IT industry...
A court in Bucharest ruled on September 20 that Traian Basescu, president of Romania from 2004-14 and currently a member of the European Parliament, was an informant of...
More than 10,000 people took to the streets of the Moldovan capital Chisinau on March 25 in support of reunification between Moldova and Romania. Much of today’s...