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.
Hundreds of Romanian haulers and farmers on January 17 continued protests for an eighth day over high taxes and insurance rates, EU environmental policies, and cheaper Ukrainian produce flooding the domestic market.
Hundreds of Romanian farmers and truck drivers on January 15 protested for the sixth consecutive day amid ongoing negotiations with the government over the high cost of diesel and other issues, including some tied to the war in Ukraine.
Romanian farmers and truck drivers continued protests across the country on January 15, as negotiations with the government failed to reach agreement.
Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey have inked a deal to form a group that will oversee joint demining operations in their territorial waters in the Black Sea.
The European Council has voted to admit Romania and Bulgaria to the free-travel Schengen Area beginning in March.
Romania and Bulgaria have reached an agreement with Austria to join Europe's open-borders Schengen Area by air and sea from March 2024, with talks set to continue next year about land borders.
A Christmas Day fire that ripped through a Romanian tourist farm in Tohani, 90 kilometers north of Bucharest, has killed seven people, including two children, authorities said December 27, adding that another person was still missing.
Moldovan lawmakers on December 22 confirmed Romanian politician Anca Dragu as the country's new central bank governor after dismissing Octavian Armasu from the position the previous day.
One teenager was killed and three others were pulled alive from the rubble after a boarding school collapsed in the central Romanian city of Odorheiu Secuiesc, authorities said on December 18.
Romania's Defense Ministry says a drone shot down during Russia's attack on Ukraine's port installations on the Danube early on December 14 fell on Romanian territory, leaving a 1 1/2-meter deep crater near the village of Grindu, which is located some 8 kilometers from the Ukrainian port of Reni.
Blizzards, snowfall, and high winds have wreaked havoc over the past two days in eastern and southeastern Europe, leaving hundreds of thousands of people isolated and without electricity and running water.
Three patients at a psychiatric hospital in eastern Romania have died and 29 others have been transferred to other hospitals, one of them in critical condition, after eating fish-based food donated by a monastery, Romania's Health Ministry said.
The Romanian and Dutch defense ministers on November 13 opened a training center for F-16 pilots some 150 kilometers east of Bucharest where Ukrainian pilots will learn how to fly the U.S.-made fighter jets.
Romania's and Ukraine's Foreign Ministries said 103 Romanian citizens and their family members as well as 101 Ukrainians are due to be evacuated from Gaza into Egypt on November 7.
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said Kyiv has decided to officially recognize Romanian as the language of Ukraine's Romanian minority and welcomed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's backing of the move.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after talks in Bucharest with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis on October 10 that the two sides discussed military aid for Ukraine, and that "there will soon be very good news about artillery and air defense."
Bucharest has evacuated 245 Romanian citizens, including two groups of pilgrims, from Israel aboard four planes, Romania's Foreign Ministry said on October 9.
Earlier this year, Romania was shaken by revelations that elderly and disabled residents at the country's care homes were being beaten, underfed, and neglected. Further investigations have revealed a fundamentally broken system, where care home residents were viewed as mere assets.
Romania's National Defense Ministry said on September 30 that an army surveillance system had detected a "possible unauthorized entry into national airspace" overnight around Galati.
An explosion at a highway construction site in Romania early on September 21 killed four people and injured five, emergency services said.
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