After a decade-long closure, RFE/RL's Romanian Service relaunched in 2019 on digital platforms to help address declining media independence in Romania and the spread of disinformation.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has nominated acting Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca as prime minister in a second bid to end a political stalemate that has hampered efforts to tackle an huge surge of COVID-19 infections and deaths.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged more defense cooperation among Black Sea allies as he visited Romania on October 20 as part of a three-country tour of the region amid ongoing tensions with Russia.
Romanian Prime Minister-designate Dacian Ciolos has failed in his bid to form the next government after his centrist minority cabinet was rejected in a confidence vote, extending the country's political crisis.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has called a meeting of government officials on October 20 to “establish clear, restrictive measures” to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections after the country hit daily records in both coronavirus infections and deaths.
The Romanian president has proposed the leader of the center-right Save Romania Union (USR), Dacian Ciolos, as a candidate to form a government, days after a nine-month-old minority coalition was toppled in a no-confidence vote.
Romania has the second-lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the European Union, after Bulgaria, with just 35.3 percent of adults having had at least one dose. The country's infection and death rates are also among the highest in the EU.
Thousands of people have protested in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, to reject new measures by the authorities to curb an alarming surge of COVID-19 infections.
The Romanian government says seven people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients -- the third deadly hospital blaze in the country in less than a year.
The European Commission has backed Romania's nearly 30 billion euro ($35.1 billion) recovery and resilience plan.
A Romanian sportsman whose career was ended by disease has founded an organization aimed at inspiring disabled children through rock climbing.
A bitter debate between Romanian conservationists and farmers has ignited after activists accused a prince from Liechtenstein's royal family of shooting a brown bear nicknamed "Arthur."
Humanitarian groups are calling on Romanian authorities to help hundreds of migrants who are living in abandoned buildings in the city of Timisoara.
Romania says it is expelling a Russian diplomat, the latest European country to do so amid a diplomatic dispute between Moscow and Prague over Russia's alleged role in a deadly 2014 explosion at a Czech arms depot.
Romania’s lawmakers have voted to scrap a special court established in 2018 to investigate magistrates and prosecutors suspected of corruption.
Romanian director Radu Jude's comedy about a woman in damage control after a porn clip of her is posted on the Internet has won the Berlin Film Festival's top prize.
Romanian officials say at least five people have died after a fire broke out in a Bucharest hospital where COVID-19 patients were being treated, the second deadly hospital fire in the country in less than three months.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has convicted Romania of violating the rights of two transgender people by refusing to recognize their gender identity because they had not undergone sex-change operations.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu have vowed to open a fresh page in relations as Moldova’s new president plies a pro-EU and anti-corruption agenda.
Romanian lawmakers have approved a new center-right pro-Western coalition government headed by U.S.-educated banker Florin Citu, a former finance minister who has pledged to overcome the coronavirus crisis and the economic woes it has caused.
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