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...
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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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Results from across the emerging Europe region suggest that with the notable exception of Hungary, where Fidesz won by a landslide, broadly pro-European parties have...
Romania’s parliament voted on April 24 to adopt a raft of controversial changes to the country’s penal code which opponents claim will severely handicap the...
Romanian Minister of Justice Tudorel Toader has said that he will do all he can to block the appointment of a Romanian, Laura Codruța Kövesi (pictured above), as the...