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.
Partial preliminary results in Romania's presidential vote give Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu a narrow lead, but a surprisingly strong showing by pro-Russia candidate Cailin Georgescu has thrown the race into unexpected territory.
Over the next few weeks, Romania is holding presidential and parliamentary elections. RFE/RL looks at who's running, who is likely to win, and, for the Romanian people, what's at stake.
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson told RFE/RL in an interview that she is “optimistic” that Romania and Bulgaria will be fully integrated into the visa-free Schengen travel zone by the end of the year.
European football's governing body is expected to announce a decision following a Nations League match between Romania and Kosovo in Bucharest that was abandoned in stoppage time on November 15 after Kosovar players left the field complaining of "racist" abuse.
Norway has announced it will give fellow NATO member Romania $127 million to partially cover the cost of a new Patriot missile-defense system to replace the one donated by Bucharest to Ukraine.
Romania dispatched four of its fighter jets early on October 19 after an unidentified object breached its airspace in the southeast near the Black Sea, the Defense Ministry said.
The U.S. Embassy in Bucharest has issued a security alert for its citizens for the weekend regarding religious institutions on the territory of Romania.
Romania's Constitutional Court has banned a pro-Russian, anti-EU, far-right candidate from running in the presidential election next month.
The European Union's top court has ruled that member states must accept changes of first name and gender obtained in other countries in the bloc, a landmark ruling brought about by a case involving Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a transgender man with dual citizenship in Romania and Great Britain.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his first comments since the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the city of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region that it was an "absolutely correct" step necessary to save lives.
Romanian water-management authorities put two eastern regions on the highest flood alert and ordered evacuations, and put the rest of the country on elevated watch, as heavy rain and winds approached just two weeks after deadly flooding hit all of central Europe.
Water levels on the Danube River are expected to slowly rise 50 centimeters by the evening of September 21 as Hungary and other Central European countries deal with the aftermath of a heavy rain storm that has drenched the region.
Two days after heavy rain flooded two counties in eastern Romania, many areas remain inundated and people are struggling to take stock of the damage.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he has canceled all of his "international obligations" as his country braces for floodwaters that have already ravaged much of Central and Eastern Europe, where several people have died in the wake of torrential rains from Storm Boris.
Residents and authorities continue to battle heavy rainfall and floodwaters throughout Central Europe on September 15 as officials in Romania said at least six people were dead and two more were missing there.
At least four people have died and hundreds of others had to be evacuated in eastern Romania after massive flooding inundated roads and low-lying areas.
A Russian missile strike on a civilian ship transporting Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea has drawn sharp condemnation from NATO and raised concerns in Romania about the status of shipping on the Black Sea.
Ukraine accused Russia on September 12 of using strategic bombers to fire missiles at a civilian ship carrying Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea.
Romania and Latvia, both members of NATO, on September 8 accused Russia of violating their countries' airspace with military drones, escalating tensions between Moscow and the West.
The Romanian government is in the final stages of donating a Patriot missile system to Ukraine in the midst of Ukraine’s ever-increasing calls for more support from the West.
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