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.
The European Commission formally closed the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) for Bulgaria and Romania, introduced in 2007 to monitor the two EU members states' progress on judicial reforms and fighting corruption.
Romania's Defense Ministry said elements of what could be a drone were identified on the NATO member's territory following a Russian drone attack early on September 13 on Izmayil in southern Ukraine, just across the border.
NATO has no information that the drone debris found on the territory of alliance member Romania was caused by a deliberate Russian attack, NATO's secretary-general has said.
European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe have called on Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine unconditionally and promised to provide support to Kyiv “for as long as it takes” to repel Moscow’s unprovoked full-scale invasion.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on September 5 said attacks are occurring close to Romania's border with Ukraine but no drone or other device landed in Romania during a weekend attack by Russian forces on Ukrainian port infrastructure.
Romania's Defense Ministry has "categorically" denied a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry claim that at least one Russian drone launched during an overnight attack on a Ukrainian port fell and detonated on Romanian territory.
French-Israeli business magnate Beny Steinmetz, who faces a five-year prison term in Romania, has been arrested in Cyprus on a European warrant issued by Bucharest, his spokesman said on September 3.
The Romanian Prosecutor-General's Office has opened an investigation into two explosions on August 26 at a fueling station near Bucharest that killed two people and injured 56, mostly firefighters.
The number of dead after two explosions rocked a fueling station in a suburb of Bucharest increased to two, with 57 injured, as questions arose about why the station was operating despite the withdrawal of safety permits.
Two explosions at a fueling station in a suburb of Bucharest on August 26 killed at least one person and injured several others, including more than two dozen first responders, officials in the Romanian capital said.
Bosnian musician Goran Bregovic, who has been banned from performing in Moldova because of his outspoken pro-Moscow views, is due to perform at least twice in the coming months in NATO and EU member Romania, RFE/RL has learned.
Hundreds of Ukrainian men have crossed into neighboring Romania illegally since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Agerpres news agency reported
Romanian officials said the NATO member nation's navy had sent a team of specialized divers and a helicopter to search for stray mines along the Black Sea coast after an explosion shook the embankment near the resort town of Costinesti.
Dramatic video posted on social media captured the moment Russian forces launched an air strike on the Ukrainian port of Reni, which is just 200 meters across the river Danube from Romania, on July 24. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis condemned the attack calling it an "escalation".
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a large audience in central Romania on July 22 that the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has given him a list of sensitive topics he should avoid in his public addresses at an annual event held by leaders of Romania's Hungarian minority in Transylvania.
Romania's Family and Youth Minister Gabriela Firea has resigned, the second member of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu's leftist-led government to become a casualty of a national scandal over revelations about the abusive treatment of people interned in a complex of private retirement homes.
Romanian Labor Minister Marius Budai is resigning after being accused that he ignored a warning about abusive treatment meted out to elderly and disabled people in a complex of private retirement homes in a town on the outskirts of Bucharest, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on July 13.
Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu says his country's prosperity and security can only be guaranteed through its eventual membership in the European Union and through "intensified, accelerated cooperation with NATO," amid discussion on whether the current policy of neutrality is insufficient.
Romanian authorities on July 4 raided several nursing homes and elderly care facilities in Bucharest and other locations in Romania over allegations of patient abuse.
The chief of Romania’s intelligence service said on July 3 that he is resigning, asserting that it is a danger for democracy for one person to remain in such a position for too many years.
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