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Justice minister Catalin Predoiu has nominated three officials to head Romania’s three key prosecutor’s offices_ the post of prosecutor general, chief anti-corruption prosecutor and the chief anti-crime prosecutor. Predoiu said he’d picked Gabriela Scutea, 47, who had “the most solid professional resume” for the post of prosecutor general. Scutea is currently a prosecutor at the Court...

Adrian Năstase has blasted the Romanian presidency again after President Klaus Iohannis withdrew a national honor the former prime minister received for his efforts to help Romania join NATO and the European Union. Nastase was one of twelve former senior officials with corruption convictions who lost their prestigious national honors last month.

Romania’s economy minister says a state-owned company will produce 500,000 surgical masks a day which are needed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The minister, Virgil Popescu, said that automated equipment was being installed on three production lines on Tuesday at Romarm, a state-owned defense company and Romania's main supplier for defense technique...

Retired general Ben Hodges,  the former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, has warned that pulling U.S. soldiers out of Europe is risky because it could determine Russia to test NATO's defense capacity. "If they consider we are not cohesive, they may decide to launch an incursion into Romania or the Baltics and...

Moldova holds the second round of local elections on Sunday with the focus in the capital where a pro-Russian candidate will seek to win the seat which has traditionally been held by pro-European forces. Moldovans are voting for mayors of 380 town halls, communities where no candidate won a majority in the first round...

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban says some public workers will be furloughed during the state of emergency which has forced millions of employees to stay at home and led to bankruptcy and job losses in some sectors. Orban said the measure would apply to non-essential sectors, but it was unclear how many employees it would...

Romania reported more than 300 cases for the fifth day in a row, despite a drop in testing, raising fears that the virus is spreading after authorities relaxed the lockdown. The Strategic Communication Group said Sunday that 315 new cases had been confirmed in the last 24 hours, following 6,333 tests. That gave...

Romania reached a total of almost 7,000 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with 246 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours. The Strategic Communication Group said 6,879 people had been sickened by the virus and 346 people had died. Some 50 Romanian citizens have succumbed to the virus abroad. The new...

The owner of a bakery in central Romania says two Sri Lankans will continue to bake bread for the company, following protests by local residents who say they don’t want the men in their small town. In an about-face, bakery manager Katain Kollo on Sunday said the bakers, aged 49 and 22, would continue to work...

You’d have thought the Queen of England had abdicated. But the story that has gripped the British tabloids since an announcement in London Wednesday evening is merely news that the sixth in line to the British throne, Prince Harry, 35, and his wife Meghan Markle, are effectively resigning as senior members of the royal...