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.
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.
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.
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