2019 presidential election. Candidates trade insults. Iohannis claims he saved the rule of law, ex-PM says she raised wages, pensions
President Klaus Iohannis said there would be no rule of law in Romania if he hadn’t intervened to stop a contentious judicial overhaul initiated by the former Social Democrat government.
Iohannis faces ex-Prime Minister Viorica Dancila in a runoff for the presidential election on Nov. 24. The pair held separate press conferences Tuesday...
Bucharest mayor drops “Oxygen tax” after backlash on Facebook
Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea who is running for a second term as mayor
this summer says she will scrap an unpopular proposal to ban heavily polluting
cars from the city center and a proposed tax on other cars designed to reduce
pollution and heavy traffic in the Romanian capital.
Firea says she has decided to withdraw the...
Former Romanian parliament speaker sentenced to 7 years in prison in bribe case
A Romanian court has sentenced the former parliament speaker Bogdan Olteanu to
seven years in prison on charges that he accepted 1 million euros in 2008 to
influence the government over a key appointment.
The Bucharest Court also ordered Olteanu to pay back the 1 million euros. The
ruling is not final.
Romanian leaders promise to build highway linking underdeveloped region to the heart of the country
Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Ludovic Orban celebrated a national holiday Friday by promising to build a highway to link the poor region of Moldova to Transylvania, in the heart of the country.
Iohannis and Orban traveled to the northeast city of Iasi for ‘Little Unity Day’ which marks the...
Row over children’s cancer hospital exposes different mentalities in Romania
It looked and
sounded like a row over a hospital.
A public disagreement between the Bucharest mayor, the health minister and a non-governmental organization about a children’s cancer hospital has been peppered with accusations, reproaches and very vulgar language.
But the feud has also exposed two different mentalities.
Romania’s Parliament debates whether to scrap disputed ‘special pensions’
Romania’s
ruling Liberal Party says it wants to scrap some so-called “special pensions,” monthly payments made to retirees that are not
based on contributions paid into the social security system.
The pensions,
which can reach many thousands of euros a month, are a contentious issue in
Romania. Critics say they are unfair, discriminatory and cost the state too
much....
President Klaus Iohannis seeks to reassure Romanians on ‘Brexit Day,’ says UK remains “trusted ally”
President Klaus Iohannis sought to reassure hundreds of thousands of Romanians on Friday as Britain leaves the European Union saying that their rights and interests are protected in the withdrawal agreement.
“The withdrawal for the first time of a member state is a moment that will influence the European project bringing a new...
VIDEO | Prof. Adrian Streinu Cercel at Universul.net Debates: ”The stigmatization of people with HIV has to stop!”
It is 30 years since the fall of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. It's also 30 years since most Romanians learned that AIDS affected not only 'the rotten capitalist system' but also on the 'paradisiacal' communist regime. It’s also 30 years since we discovered that many children in Romania were infected with the HIV virus. It’s...
Tens of thousands of Romanians party into the night as fireworks go off from Cluj to Constanta to usher in 2020
Tens of thousands of Romanians partied on the streets in cities and mountain slopes to usher in a new year and a new decade.
People turned out to watch firework displays and open-air concerts in Cluj, Constanta, Bucharest, Craiova, Iasi and elsewhere.
Thousands turned out for a “Disco Night Fever”...
Mary was a surrogate mother; Jesus was a radical
Around Christmas time, a Romanian politician caused an uproar on social media when he said that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a surrogate mother. He said her fiance Joseph was middle-aged and the son of God was born into “an odd family.”
I am told this is a “sensitive” topic and the
phrasing made...
