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...
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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...
Donald Tusk, the Polish president of the European Council, delivered a clear message to the Romanian government on January 10, saying that the country must fight to...
Desperate for liquidity, Romania’s government is looking to the country’s children for a new source of finance. As of January 1, all Romanian children under...
A controversial referendum to change the Romanian constitution has fallen well short of the 30 per cent turnout figure required for its result to be valid. While the...
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...
Using tear gas and water cannon Romanian police violently put down a peaceful protest in the capital Bucharest on August 10, the largest so far in a long-running series...
Where is our Macron? As a Frenchman working with political parties across Europe, this is a question that often comes back from my interlocutors. Urban liberals from...
The fight against corruption in Romania was dealt a severe blow on July 9 when the country’s increasingly weak president, Klaus Iohannis, fired Laura Codruta...
Romania’s parliament voted on June 6 to create an investment and development fund which will see the Romanian state’s shareholdings in 33 companies merged...
As many as 3.4 million Romanians have fled the country since it joined the European Union in 2007. The figure represents 17 per cent of the country’s total...
In a move that will place further question marks over the Romanian government’s commitment to fighting corruption, the country’s new prime minister Viorica Dancila said...