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Romanian award-winning theater director Andrei Serban says he recently resigned from Columbia University alleging the political correctness he encountered reminded him of communism in his home country. Serban, who has been a professor at the Ivy League university since 1992, complained about demands he faced in the theater department claiming he was...

Britain’s Ambassador to Romania Andrew Noble on Wednesday spoke to a leading Romania scientist developing a vaccine to treat COVID-19, and following the call said he would link Romanian scientists to British researchers to share their research. Noble spoke to Professor Virgil Paunescu, who is the director of the Center for Gene and Cellular...

President Klaus Iohannis has defended his appointment of two chief prosecutors to head the country’s top investigative agencies, after they were given a negative vote by a key judiciary body.  Speaking from Brussels on Thursday, Iohannis said he had great pleasure in signing off on all three prosecutors who were selected by Justice Minister...

The European Commission's Report on Romania's progress under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) is one of the most critical of the last ten years. Given the repeated attacks of the PSD - ALDE government against the justice system, the harshness of the conclusions is not surprising. The mandate of the former Justice Minister...

The number of new coronavirus cases in Romania surged to 320 on Sunday, with 16 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. Sunday’s daily count came after 275 fresh cases were reported on Saturday, a sharp increase over previous days, the Strategic Communication Group said. After a drop in new...

Europe's human rights watchdog on Tuesday warned that the COVID-19 pandemic made healthcare systems vulnerable to corruption. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) president, Marin Mrcela, said the health sector was specifically exposed, due to surges in the immediate need for medical supplies and the simplification of procurement rules, overcrowded...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the presence of troops in a breakaway region of Moldova a breach of international law and violation of the country’s "territorial integrity.’’ “We see how Russia has deployed troops in violation of the wishes of different governments in our close neighborhood, how Russia has illegally annexed Crimea, how they...

Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu had only hours to live when veteran BBC journalist John Simpson gained access to his flat in the Central Committee building in Bucharest. Few had laid eyes on it, but rumor had it that it was a luxurious pad, even by capitalistic Western standards. Yet when Simpson stepped into the quarters, he...

The party representing the interests of some 1.2 million Hungarians in Romania started after the revolution as a European party, with pro-European politicians supporting democracy and consolidating the pro-European path and values in Romania. By the 1990s, the UDMR was considered a reformist group, even an engine for progress in that troubled period. Naturally, this idea was...

Do you like going to work? One-fifth of Romanians really like their jobs, with 3% saying they can’t stand their place of employment, a study shows. Romanians in the creative industries and the media, or the banking sector are the happiest in their jobs, while the most dissatisfied employees are engineers, people working...