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Romania’s latest inflation figures reveal persistent price pressures despite a slight moderation in October 2025. The country continues to lead the European Union in consumer price growth, underscoring the structural challenges amid a stagnating economy and limited monetary policy flexibility, writes eToro analyst for Romania, Bogdan Maioreanu. . The National Bank of Romania decided Wednesday to keep the interest rate unchanged...

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden have announced today that they will fund a joint $500 million package of military equipment and munitions for Ukraine.  These will be sourced from the United States, which has hemmed and hawed on its continued support.  The joint package is developed under NATO’s Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative. PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements...

Brussels unveils its Democracy Shield—showing that, in a fragmented world with fading U.S. leadership, Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democratic space. The European Union is often an easy punchline. Critics call it bureaucratic, plodding, overly technocratic, or hopelessly fond of process for its own sake. Its institutions are routinely dismissed as remote;...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) has filed an indictment against a public official from Romania’s Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA), for using his position to convince farmers to enter a subsidy fraud scheme, while retaining 92% of the funds. Another individual has also been charged with helping to persuade the farmers and...

Romanian authorities have taken significant steps to combat trafficking in human beings, but additional efforts are needed to protect vulnerable groups from trafficking risks, identify and assist victims, and punish the perpetrators, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) of the Council of Europe. The report evaluates...

The National Museum of Damascus has been robbed of six ancient statues dating back to the Roman era. The museum reopened in January after being closed for a long time, which helped it escape the damage that other sites in the country saw.  The museum's collections include tens of thousands of items from Syria's illustrious history, from prehistoric tools to Greco-Roman...

The Superior Council of Magistrates disqualified itself from the get-go by filing a criminal complaint against deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu, for an opinion on a subject of public and national interest. Because until then, on issues such as magistrates' pensions and the independence of justice, magistrates don’t and can’t have a monopoly either as far as expressing a point...

The European Commission on Wednesday will present 'the democracy shield' a plan to protect the bloc and EU candidate countries from foreign interference and political manipulation. The shield is a series of proposals to be rolled out in the coming years. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Tuesday said it had seen an advanced draft of the document which emphasizes that...

Russia’s Federal Security Service says it thwarted a Ukrainian and British plan aimed at provoking an international incident involving NATO at a Black Sea base in Romania. Romania ridiculed the claims. Romanele sovietice de spionaj nu erau tocmai strălucite fiind exerciții de propaganda. Tot așa sunt astăzi știrile rusești inventate cu spioni. Ce e real însă este agresiunea rusa și sunt...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest has filed an indictment against three individuals for fraud, following an investigation into projects for the modernization of irrigation systems, supported by the EU. The suspects are accused of unduly receiving €1.2 million. At issue are three organizations, which obtained support from Romania’s Agency for Financing Rural Investments (AFIR) for four projects...