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Romanian magistrates "deserve" high salaries and pensions higher than their salaries and to retire at an early age. You don't have to have a law degree, nor do you even have to be self-taught in criminal matters. You don't need to read every word and every line of every indictment drawn up by prosecutors and every legal motivation published by...

In an address before TV reporters outside of papal retreat Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo warned against US bombing of Venezuelan ships and encouraged “deep reflection” on the treatment of migrants in the United States.  This is the first time the American-born pope has pointed a finger at Trump.  He “lamented the situations of those who lived in the US “for years...

Following a spate of drone attacks on NATO's eastern flank and across Europe which unsettled Allies, Poland and Romania have announced they are deploying a new US weapons system to defend against Russian drones. The Merops (named after a species of bee-eating birds) system is small enough to fit in the back of a pickup truck, identifies drones and close...

It  “happens all the time,” says alliance Secretary-General Mark Rutte of announced withdrawal of US troops during a visit to Romania. NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday downplayed a U.S. announcement that it was withdrawing 800 troops from Romania as the military defensive alliance grapples with an increasing number of suspected Russian hybrid and drone attacks on its territory. Washington announced...

Syrians no longer have grounds for asylum in Germany now the civil war in their country is over, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has declared. Due to Angela Merkel’s open-door policiy, around one million Syrians live in Germany. This makes it the EU country with the largest amount of refugees.  The trouble is that Syria remains in a deep humanitarian crisis: forced repatriation...

A Romanian worker who was trapped for hours under the rubble of a partially collapsed medieval tower near the Colosseum has died. On Monday, pieces of the 29-metre Torre dei Conti crashed to the ground.  A second collapse followed 90 minutes later, as firefighters attempted to extract Octav Stroici, who was trapped inside, with aerial ladders.  They managed to remove him 11...

NATO’s Mark Rutte visits Romania on Wednesday for talks with the key Ally which shares the longest border with Ukraine. Mr. Rutte will meet President Nicușor Dan during his one-day visit, his first to Romania since he became Secretary-General in October 2024. The meeting comes a week after Washington announced it would reduce its troop presence in Romania by about 800,...

Dick Cheney’s death closes the book on an era Dick Cheney was never meant to be rehabilitated. For long he was the embodiment of American hubris — gray, unblinking architect of the Iraq War, ice-cold defender of “enhanced interrogation,” bureaucratic hawk. Yet as news spread of his death at 84, many of those who once loathed him found themselves mourning,...

Vardø is an island in northern Norway, bathed by the Barents Sea. On it there is a picturesque fishing town, where about two thousand people live (among them, about 40 Russians). The first thing you see when you approach the island are some huge white spheres. These are NATO radars. They sit on a hill, like giant mushrooms. Norwegian intelligence...

Despite a rich energy-mix of hydro, nuclear, thermal, wind and solar sectors, Romania finds itself paying among the highest electricity prices in Europe.  This seems absurd, given that the ingredients for cheap power are all present. In early 2025 the day-ahead market (DAM) weighted average price in Romania was 506 lei / MWh (≈ €103.5/MWh) — placing the country third in the EU...