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A Romanian mayor has won almost all of the votes in his community to be elected mayor of his small town for a third time. Elsewhere in Romania there have been allegations of electoral fraud in the Romanian capital, but for Corneliu Popi-Morodan  the outcome couldn’t have been better. The...

The body of an 11-year-old girl was found in a corn field in southern Romania after she went missing on her way home from school on Sept.  20. The girl, identified as Mihaela Fieraru, had been strangled and sexually assaulted and her body dumped in Gura Sutii, Dambovita county about 2 kilometres from her home. After a massive search,...

Waste from Britain which is smuggled into Romania is to blame for air pollution in Bucharest, the acting environment minister has claimed.  Costel Alexe alleged Britain was a source of the rubbish, which enters Romania illegally and is then either dumped or incinerated illegally by waste disposal companies.  Last weekend, Bucharest suffered from severe air pollution, with...

Romania’s ombudsman on Friday has called on the top court to declare unconstitutional a law that allows authorities to quarantine and isolate people who have been infected with the coronavirus or have been in contact with patients. The move to challenge the new law was viewed as politically motivated ahead of elections next month....

The number of coronavirus cases rose to 1,029 Thursday in Romania, while 17 people have died from the killer virus. The Strategic Communication Group announced 123 new cases in the past 24 hours. The new patients are aged between 7 and 87. Ninety-four people have recovered since the outbreak began several weeks...

U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday blasted French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent rebuke of NATO, calling his comments “very, very nasty” and saying France historically was the country most in need of the military protection afforded by the 70-year-old alliance. Speaking in London at a meeting alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump reacted to Macron telling The Economist magazine in...

President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday announced a lockdown in Romania, saying the Army would be summoned to help enforce measures Romania has put in place as it battles to halt the spread of the coronavirus. “The situation has become more complex.... and we have agreed we need supplementary measures to stop and slow the...

Romania’s government plans to undo the changes made to the justice system carried out by the previous government that were singled out for criticism as a threat to judicial independence in the EU report on the rule of law. Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu on Wednesday presented draft legislation that would reverse the judicial reforms put in...

Hundreds of thousands of Romanians normally travel home from Italy for the Easter break, but they should think twice this year before making the trip, the acting health minister has said. Victor Costache has advised Romanians that if they decide to travel to Romania next month, they face two weeks of quarantine due to the coronavirus outbreak there. There...

Dan Turturică: Mr. Ambassador, many years ago when you and your family left Romania, the idea, the prospect of a Romanian-U.S. strategic partnership seemed utterly impossible; today it is a reality. However, it can be very easy for us to forget how hard it was to get this point. Especially for the younger generation, there is a temptation...