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Romania’s economy outperformed the rest of the European Union last quarter as the government opted not to impose strict restrictions that shuttered most of the continent, Bloomberg reported. The agency said that output not only grew from the previous three months, but soared ten times more than what analysts had predicted. The 5.3%...

A criminal network smuggled and registered Moldovan workers in France with fake documents while keeping their real passports as a guarantee, an investigation by the French, Romanian and Moldovan police has revealed. Officers have dismantled an organized crime group involved in migrant smuggling, human trafficking for labor exploitation, document fraud, social benefit fraud and money laundering,...

Rare images of Romanian lynx playing in their natural habitat have been caught on camera. The wild felines can be seen frolicking in the snow in the Romanian mountains in a two-minute video posted by the environment ministry on Facebook. The images of the ginger lynx were captured in the Piatra...

More than 16,000 children were norm to teenage mothers in 2019, almost tenth of all births that year, a health official said. Romanian girls aged between 15 to 19 also had almost 4,300 abortions that year, the last available statistics. Figures for 2020 have not yet been published. “We have a...

Ion Cristiou, a well-known Romanian journalist has come under fire for disparaging comments he made about a top health official in which he questioned his sexual orientation. A member of ruling Liberal Party filed a complaint to the anti-discrimination board on Monday about the remarks which were made in a Facebook video. Hospital

Romania paid more than any other country in the European Union to import gas from Russian giant Gazprom last year, a report showed. It paid almost 60% above the average of what other countries in the region paid, Profit.ro reported. Romania bought 962 million cubic meters, 3.2% less than 2019, according...

Romania’s Orthodox Church will continue to submerge infants in water during baptism ceremonies, rejecting calls to change the ritual after a six-week-old baby died after being baptized earlier this month. However, the church did say that it would ask priests to be more careful in the future and would improve how trainee priests learn...

Half a century ago, the great bustard roamed happily on Romania's grassy plains. But excessive hunting of the bird, prized for its tasty meat, and industrialization after the communists came to power led to its disappearance from Romania. In an exciting development for ornithologists, the great bustard has recently been spotted...

Romania’s health minister says the country’s hospitals are struggling to cope with a rising number of seriously ill Covid-19 patients. Vlad Voiculescu said on Sunday that there are more 1,450 critical care hospital beds occupied in Romania by coronavirus patients, Authorities are scrambling to make more beds available amid a rise in...

Romania’s parliamentary speaker says it’s a top priority to change management at the scandal-ridden public television station and public radio and remove a politically biased official from the post of ombudsman.  Ludovic Orban, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, said on Tuesday that the situation should be resolved by Parliament in the next two weeks.