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Romania's government will offer a tax amnesty to taxpayers owing money to the budget before the coronavirus outbreak, in a bid to boost budget revenues and help cororonavirus-hit business. Both individuals and companies can apply for the facility which applies to money owed up until the end of March. The move aims...

The summer holiday season has been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, with countries across Europe shutting their borders to foreign travelers. In the midst of the disruption, which sees some people opting to stay at home or forgo a holiday altogether for health or financial reason, the European Union on Monday published statistics for...

Romanians woke up to winter on Monday morning with the first snowfall of the season in the capital at the start of a two-day holiday. Snow also fell in the Danube counties of Teleorman, Giurgiu, Calaraşi and Ialomita along the border with Bulgaria and farther east toward the Black Sea including Braila, Constanta and...

It’s one of the busiest _ and most frustrating_ routes in Romania linking the south to Transylvania. The outgoing government says it’s poised to sign a major contract for a long-awaited highway linking Ploiesti to Brasov with a Turkish-Chinese consortium which was one of five bidders for the project. Transport Minister...

A Romanian government official on the front line of the response to the coronavirus pandemic has filed a criminal complaint after he received two death threats in response to his handling of the health crisis. Raed Arafat, head of the,Department for Emergency Situations, lodged his complaint with the organized crime unit on Thursday after...

Moldova's parliament has brought down the pro-Western Prime Minister Maia Sandu and her government in a no-confidence vote, threatening more  instability for the former Soviet republic. A total of 63 lawmakers in the 101-seat legislature voted Tuesday to oust Sandu, five months after an uneasy governing alliance was formed between pro-Russian and pro-European forces. The pro-Russian Socialist...

Romanian police are investigating the managers of an airport in the northwest city of Cluj after up to 2,000 workers gathered outside the terminal waiting for flights to Germany where they have jobs on farms. Romania's National Police Department is investigating whether managers broke the social distancing rules imposed during a state of...

Romania's government on Thursday sent a military doctor to run a stricken hospital in northern Romania where 30 patients have died and 180 healthcare officials have been infected with COVID-19. The manager and the medical director resigned on Wednesday less than a week into the job at the St John the New...

Six Romanians who were who were on the coronavirus-riddled Diamond Princess have landed in Romania on a rescue flight, the defense ministry said. The six, who had asked to be repatriated, arrived at the Romanian Air Force base in Bucharest on a defense ministry plane after spending more than two weeks trapped on the doomed vessel...

Romanian authorities said Saturday that 367 Romanians had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, 59 new infections since the previous day. Seven Romanians who live abroad have died from the deadly disease, the Strategic Communication Group said. Six were in Italy and one in Spain. There have been no deaths in Romania.