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Romania imported more electricity than it exported in 2019, the Romania statistics office said. Electricity imports increased by a substantial 74% in 2019, compared to the previous year, while exports decreased by 34%, leaving a negative balance of 1.51 TWh. The deficit was due to a 7.8% drop in domestic production. Local power...

Thirty years after its bloody anti-communist uprising, Romania is renewing efforts to find out who was responsible for the deaths of as many as 1,300 people, many of who were killed after former Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu was ousted from power. The government institute tasked with investigating crimes committed by the communist regime on...

Romania on Thursday reported 1,365 new cases of the novel coronavirus, while 44 patients with the virus died including the head of a Bucharest neurology clinic. The Strategic Communication Group said just under 24,000 people had been tested nationwide with 5.69% of those confirmed with the disease, a higher percentage than the past two days.

A flock of 180 sheep saved from a capsized cargo ship in November have arrived at their new home in Romania. More than 14,000 sheep were being transported on the Queen Hind ship from Romania to Saudi Arabia, where they were due to be slaughtered. Rescuers managed to save 254 sheep. Dozens later died from exhaustion...

A state-owned Chinese company with a checkered record in Central Europe has become the country’s first construction firm to win a contract to build a road in Romania. Romania's public road company CNAIR signed a contract with Chinese construction company Sinohydro on July 31 to build the 5.53 kilometer ring road in the northwestern city of...

Romania’s foreign minister says NATO hasn’t had to activate the anti-missile defense system in southern Romania during the current Middle East crisis, and asserted that the system was defending European allied territory “perfectly.” Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu spoke Wednesday after a joint parliamentary foreign policy and defense committee meeting with Defense Minister Nicolae Ciuca, where they...

Romania’s former finance minister has challenged his successor Florin Citu to a public debate after he claimed that the outgoing Social Democrats handled the country’s finances like the notorious gangster Al Capone. Florin Citu, of the ruling Liberal Party, claimed Thursday that the Social Democrats had hidden Romania’s economic situation since they came to power in 2017 and kept two...

Romania’s Health Minister Nelu Tataru says September will be a challenging month for new coronavirus cases, but numbers should start to decline by mid-October. “A hard month follows,” Tataru said referring to the reopening of schools on September 14 followed by nationwide local elections on September 27. However, if rules are...

Romania reported 823 cases of new coronavirus on Monday, the fourth day in a row that the number of daily infections have fallen. However, just 8,045 tests were carried out, meaning 10.23% of the people tested were confirmed to have the virus, which is double the usual percentage of most days last week. Testing...

The 2019 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change shows that climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and is set to shape the well-being of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit warming to well below 2˚C. Romania is among the European countries where...