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.
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.
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.
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