Romania to open first Holocaust museum
Romanian
President Klaus Iohannis has backed the creation of the country's first
Holocaust museum, 75 years after the end of World War II.
Thee
National Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust in Romania will feature Jewish
heritage in the country, Iohannis said Tuesday.
Up to
380,000 Jews were killed...
UPDATE. Romanians vote on reforms, European values in parliamentary elections
Romanians were voting Sunday in a national ballot that reform-minded incumbents hope to win so they can form a majority in Parliament and rebuild investor confidence.
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban Liberal Party has a slight lead of the opposition Social Democrats which controls Parliament, but the result will also depend on turnout.
EU blasts Romania’s weakened anti-corruption fight in key report
Hopes that the European Union would lift special
monitoring on Romania’s justice system were dashed Tuesday after the commission
issued a scathing report for the country.
In the 25-page report, the European Commission
castigated Romania for backtracking on the anti-corruption fight in the past
year.
It said Romania had rolled back progress made in...
2019 presidential election. Thousands of Romanians abroad head to vote for president after new law extends voting hours (update 2)
Thousands of Romanians around the word began casting ballots in the presidential election Friday after a new law went into effect extending voting hours for voters who live abroad, following chaotic and angry scenes at polling stations from previous elections.
By mid-afternoon Friday, more than 60,000 people had voted, most in Brussels, in the...
Retired three-star general touted as Romania’s next premier
Retired general, Nicolae Ciuca, formerly the Chief of Staff, who is known for his pro-Western views and is a favorite of President Klaus Iohannis is likely to be nominated for the post to head Romania’s efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Romania faces a health and economic crisis and rolling out a vaccination campaign next...
Parliament looks set to dismiss Romanian prime minister in no-confidence vote.
Romania’s
Prime Minister Viorica Dancila lashed out at politicians seeking to topple her
government in a vote of no-confidence Thursday saying she was “more of a man,”
than all of them.
Dancila
defended her 21-month record as the country’s first woman prime minister, and
called her detractors “amateurs and irresponsible,” people.
The...
Romanian becomes world’s oldest man at 111
A Romanian man has taken the title of the world’s oldest man at 111 years, the Gerontology Research Group said.
Dumitru Comanescu, aged 111 and seven months, took the honor after the previous holder, Bob Weighton, a Briton, died “peacefully in his sleep, from cancer" on Thursday aged 112, his family said.
Romanian historian: the Securitate secret police investigating 1989 Revolution is like Nazi Heinrich Himmler’s people probing the SS
A new book ‘Snipers and Mystifiers,’ published this week demonstrates how the bloodshed of the 1989 anti-communist revolt was orchestrated by the feared Securitate secret police of Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, and not, as military prosecutors claim, the result of friendly fire by the revolutionaries.
The book is
the first serious_ and honest_ attempt to...
1000s in Romania urge gov’t to step up anti-graft fight. Prosecutors accused of pursuing ‘pizza,’ other small-time bribes
Under former chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, Romania gained a reputation in Europe and beyond for leading a crusade against graft at the highest levels.
In Romania, Ms Kovesi ruffled the feathers of the elite and became a hero for some ordinary Romanians until the government fired her in 2018....
Romania is least prepared EU country in to join the Eurozone, European Commission report says
Romania is the least prepared EU member to join the eurozone, a report out Wednesday said.
The European Commission report published online concludes that Romania currently fulfills none of the four economic criteria necessary for adopting the euro, the currency in 19 member states.
It doesn’t fulfill the price stability, public...
