Far-right Romanian Senator expelled from writers’ union for saying women can’t be smart, Roma are ‘a scourge’
Romania’s Writers' Union has expelled a writer turned politician for saying women can’t be smart and calling Roma a “scourge of society.”
Sorin Lavric became a household name after the ultra-conservative party that he leads came from nowhere to win 9% in Romanian parliamentary elections.
But the sudden scrutiny also...
Facebook and Twitter take down Russian ‘news operation’ based in Romania
Facebook says it has dismantled a small network
of accounts and pages that were part of a Russian influence operation.
The company said the campaign was linked to Russia's Internet Research
Agency (IRA), an organization close to the Russian government and accused of
interference in the 2016 US election.
Twitter also suspended five accounts...
Court orders top Romanian surgeon accused of bribery be placed under home arrest
A Bucharest court on Friday ruled that top Romanian surgeon Mircea Beuran be placed under house arrest for 30 days on suspicion that he took a 10,000 euro bribe.
The court
rejected a request by anti-corruption prosecutors to arrest him for 30 days. He
was detained on Thursday evening.
The
anti-corruption prosecutors’ agency said...
Romanian lawmakers vote to force government to honor child allowance increase bill
Romanian lawmakers have voted against a government ordinance that would have postponed a significant increase in child benefits.
The Chamber of Deputies struck down the ordinance on Wednesday in a 209-3 vote. Some 98 lawmakers abstained.
The Social Democrats passed a bill to double child benefits in November 2019...
Government deploys fake patients to Romanian hospitals to check for bribes
They look like patients. They say they’re patients, but there’s nothing wrong with them at all.
They are a team of undercover detectives sent by Romania’s Health Minister Sorina Pintea to the country’s hospitals to check out whether medics and nurses are demanding or accepting bribes.
The “mysterious patients” as they are...
Emergency prank calls: ‘Iulian’ made 1,500 fake calls to the emergency services. Someone else called 7,573 times. The cost of hoax calls
He went
by the name of Iulian. In two months, he called 112, Romania’s emergency number
more than 1,500 times, and there was never an emergency.
Fake callers
like “Iulian” dialled the emergency line more than 311,000 times in the first
three months of 2020, authorities say in what is a growing problem.
Sometimes
fake callers...
Romanian president marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘An act of systematic and deliberate murder’
President Klaus Iohannis on Sunday has described the brutal murder of Roma during the Holocaust and says Romania was also responsible for killing Roma during the Nazi occupation.
“Almost half a million children, women and Roma men were killed during the Nazi occupation of Europe,” Iohannis said in a message to mark European...
Romania police seize almost 8,500 tons of Beirut blast chemical in raids
Romanian
police have discovered thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored illegally
and unsafely at sites and storage units across the country.
They
seized more than 8,450 tons of the chemical across Romania, about three times
the 2,750 tons that caused a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on
August 4, that...
Romania’s anti-corruption president likely to be re-elected
Romania holds its first round of presidential elections on
Sunday, days after the East European country got its fourth premier in three
years amid ongoing political uncertainty.
Incumbent Klaus Iohannis, who formerly led the center-right Liberal
party, looks set to be re-elected. He is
seen as “a safe air of hands” but does not...
Council of Europe Secretary General honors the 3,000 Roma murdered in Auschwitz gas chambers in 1944
In August 1944, Paris was liberated after the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrendered the French capital and farther east, the Soviet offensive was underway in Eastern Europe.
But on Wednesday, August 2, 1944 something altogether more brutal and sinister took place in Eastern Europe.
The remaining Roma of the so-called
“Zigeunerlager”...
