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Cătălin Predoiu, who resigned his leadership position in the Liberal Party after he fell out with party leader Ilie Bolojan over the nomination of a Liberal Party member as prime minister designate without a party mandate, on Wednesday defended his position. Predoiu, 57, who has served as justice minister, interior minister and interim prime minister, said he accepts the consequences...

France has placed nearly half of the country, including Paris, under its highest heatwave warning as soaring temperatures are expected to approach record levels on Monday. In Bordeaux, in southwestern France, temperatures climbed to 40°C on Sunday. As the heatwave strengthens, authorities have introduced special measures during the annual Fête de la Musique, the nationwide music festival that attracts millions of...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in an interview with Fox News that Romania has restricted commercial flights from Bucharest to facilitate US military operations in the conflict with Iran. He made his comments ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump to highlight the support provided by European states to US military actions. Rutte shared that 500 U.S. planes utilized...

Poland has reached its highest position to date in a key indicator of household living standards across the European Union, surpassing four member states over the past year.  New figures published by Eurostat, which is the EU's statistical office, demonstrate that Poland has also become the leading performer among the eastern European countries that joined the bloc since 2004. The ranking...

President Nicusor Dan said Romania’s best bet to end a lengthy political crisis is a minority government which Parliament agrees to beforehand. Dan said he had consultations with the parliamentary parties and groups on Tuesday to identify a solution to put an end to a seven-week political crisis. Parliament failed to  approve his previous pick as prime minister and his first...

Paradoxically, Romania would be safer with a minority PSD government There couldn’t have been a climax more fitting with the way the the political crisis began when the suitor, Adrian Vestea (the PM designate) went to the bride's house (the AUR party headquarters) to ask for her hand. The way that Ilie Bolojan’s government was overthrown was disgraceful, hypocritical, pure pantomime...

Forty-five years of trying to defeat Hezbollah alone have produced failure. The time has come to turn Hezbollah from Israel’s problem into an international one. Another half-dozen Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon in recent days, adding to a toll that continues to grow with no clear strategic endpoint in sight. Dozens of Lebanese were also reported killed, including a...

BBC World Service has launched BBC Romania, further building on its global commitment to reach more people with trusted news as disinformation seeks to drive divisions between people and undermine liberal democracies. British Ambassador Giles Portman said that in the "face of hostile external disinformation, I'm so pleased the BBC Romanian service is back," on a post on X. https://twitter.com/GilesPortman/status/2069366953223901206 As well...

US software and cloud computing company Oracle has eliminated approximately 21,000 jobs worldwide over the past year, as a result of a restructuring of its operations around artificial intelligence.  Last year’s annual report showed 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, compared with around 162,000 a year earlier.  This striking reduction represents about 13% of Oracle's global workforce. In its filing,...

President Nicusor Dan is in talks with political parties Tuesday in a third bid to rebuild a pro-European Union government after his latest candidate failed to win a vote of confidence, prolonging a political deadlock and raising the likelihood of snap elections. County chairman Adrian Vestea, a rebel Liberal member, won just 189 votes well short of the 233 needed...