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 announced outgoing Finance Minister Florin Citu as prime minister-designate following a parliamentary poll earlier this month.
Following Romania’s parliamentary elections, President Klaus Iohannis has invited political parties for consultations on December 14 about the formation of a new government.
Romania's governing pro-Western National Liberal Party (PNL) appears well-placed to stay in power despite a stronger-than-expected showing by the leftist opposition in parliamentary elections at the weekend.
Romanians have been voting in parliamentary elections with the governing pro-European National Liberal Party hoping to secure a mandate for new reforms despite mixed results in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Voting has also taken place in hospitals.
Romania’s ruling National Liberal Party (PNL) and the leftist Social Democrats (PSD) were neck-and-neck in the country’s parliamentary elections, according to an exit poll released on December 6.
A fire at a hospital in Romania where COVID-19 patients were being treated killed 10 people and injured several others on November 14, the country's agency for emergency situations said.
Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban says Chinese tech giant Huawei “does not meet [security] conditions” to be part of building 5G networks in the country.
The U.S. ambassador to Bucharest has accused Huawei and the Chinese Embassy of continuing “to try to mislead the people of Romania” while accusing some Romanian press outlets of publishing Chinese propaganda.
A fugitive Iranian judge facing possible extradition to his homeland on charges of corruption died at a hotel in Romania from a fall, a preliminary autopsy has concluded.
Romanian prosecutors have charged the head of a Romanian state-owned company with corruption over a contract to acquire medical equipment aimed at fighting the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
A former Iranian judge sought by his homeland to face corruption charges has been found dead in Romania’s capital, officials say.
Swimmers were allowed to return to Romania's biggest Black Sea beach resort after the country began to ease its COVID-19 restrictions on June 1. Beaches, open-air bars, and outdoor restaurants in the town of Mamaia were allowed to open.
An Orthodox priest used a microphone to involve a neighborhood in an Easter Vigil. People stood in their windows with candles lit to the sound of litanies and church bells in the city of Cluj-Napoca on the night of April 18-19.
Romania’s health minister has confirmed the first coronavirus infection in the southeastern Europe nation.
The Romanian president has asked outgoing Prime Minister Ludovic Orban to form a new government, moving a step closer to snap general elections.
Locals in a Romanian village have demanded the dismissal of two Sri Lankans who came to work at a thriving bakery. It has sparked a fierce debate over migration, jobs, and racism in a country whose own citizens face similar vitriol abroad.
A bakery in a small Romanian village says it will continue to allow a pair of Sri Lankan employees to make bread at its shop in the face of protests from local residents fearing an influx of immigrants.
Romania’s main opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) has filed a motion of no-confidence against the minority center-right government of Prime Minister Ludovic Orban.
After spending part of his childhood in the dire conditions of a Romanian orphanage, Florin Catanescu founded a shelter in Brasov for young people leaving state institutions. The residents share housing, meals, friendship, and Catanescu's guidance in giving back to the community.
An appeals court in Romania this week issued a verdict that acquitted 25 men of trafficking dozens of Roma children across Europe while controlling their families through debt bondage.
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