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.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban on December 15 visited the western Romanian city of Timisoara to take part in events marking 30 years since the end of communist rule and the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
The U.S. ambassador to Romania, Hans Klemm, invited counterparts from 20 NATO nations for a rare tour inside the U.S. Aegis Ashore missile-defense system in Develesu, Romania. When the site opened in 2016, there was an angry reaction from Moscow. Washington said the site is intended to protect Europe from possible ballistic-missile threats from Iran, and is not aimed at Russia.
Romania's new center-right government was sworn in by President Klaus Iohannis after winning a confidence vote in parliament on November 4 following the collapse last month of the leftist Social Democrat (PSD) government.
Leading European Union lawmakers have endorsed the appointment of former Romanian anticorruption official Laura Codruta Koevesi as the bloc’s first antifraud prosecutor.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has named the leader of the center-right National Liberal Party (PNL) as the country's next prime minister.
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila’s beleaguered left-wing government has lost a no-confidence vote a year before a general election and just weeks ahead of presidential polls.
The United States has imposed a travel ban on Liviu Dragnea, the jailed former leader of Romania's ruling Social Democrats, and his immediate family members, saying they have been involvement in "significant corruption."
Romanian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted against a bill that would have given politicians a way to avoid jail for corruption, in a move seen as a major victory for the opposition and in line with European Union demands.
A series of videos posted on social media by an opposition lawmaker has brought to light inadequate conditions and overcrowding in Romania's mental-health facilities just days after a man killed four patients in a psychiatric hospital.
Peaceful gathering in the center of Romanian capital marked one-year anniversary of a violently suppressed demonstration for a better state. Around 20,000 people came on August 10 to express their dismay about slow judicial processes and irresponsive police and other emergency services. (RFE/RL)
Romania's Interior Minister Nicolae Moga has announced his resignation, amid public outrage over the suspected rape and murder of a teenage girl.
Thousands of Romanians protested on July 27 against the slow response by police to the plight of a teenager who was kidnapped and eventually killed.
More than 2,500 demonstrators gathered outside the government building in Bucharest on the evening of July 27 to protest the handling by Romanian police of a kidnapping and murder case.
Thousands of people joined a gay-pride parade in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, months after a referendum seeking to ban same-sex marriage failed.
Pope Francis spent the third day of his visit to Romania -- June 2 -- in the city of Blaj. In an open-air mass, he beatified seven Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops who died in prison during the communist regime.
Pope Francis has warned against any new ideological attempt to sow fear or division in society as he beatified seven Romanian Greek-Catholic bishops.
Tens of thousands of believers attended an open-air mass led by Pope Francis at the Sumuleu Ciuc shrine on June 1. The pilgrimage site is part of the Romanian city of Miercurea Ciuc, which is mainly inhabited by ethnic Hungarians.
Pope Francis arrived in Bucharest on May 31 at the beginning of a three-day pilgrimage to Romania. Thousands of people gathered along the main boulevards of the capital, Bucharest, to see Francis as he made his way to the presidential palace.
Pope Francis used a visit to Romania’s most famous shrine on June 1 to urge Romanian and ethnic Hungarian faithful to work together for their future.
Senior Romanian police officers have resigned after claims that they ordered death threats against a journalist probing plagiarism at the Police Academy. Amid growing concerns about declining media freedom in Romania, Emilia Sercan insists she will continue her work.
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