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Police and prosecutors are investigating an art gallery which is suspected of selling 200 forged works of art falsely credited to famous Romanian painters. They carried out house searches in the capital and northern Romania on Thursday in connection with the case. They said an unnamed Bucharest art gallery is suspected of selling forged paintings attributed to artists such as Nicolae...

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said an altercation involving an Italian journalist and a Romanian Senator in which the journalist said she was bitten was ‘regrettable.’ He called for "a thorough inquiry." Journalist Lucia Goracci of state broadcaster Rai Uno said she was physically assaulted and barred from leaving the office of Romanian Senator Diana Sosoaca during a recent ...

The border between Romania and Yugoslavia was named ‘Europe’s bloodiest border’ in the 1980s. There was no war or refugee crisis on the 546 kilometer frontier. But thousands of Romania were desperate to flee Nicolae Ceausescu’s oppressive communist regime. And they grew more desperate. Perilous journey They either went on foot, trying to avoid border patrols or took the perilous journey over...

A Romanian government minister resigned on Wednesday after he was accused of plagiarizing a master’s degree and pretending to graduate from another university. Florin Roman, minister of research, innovation and digitalization, admitted to “negligence” in his resume but did not admit outright to plagiarism. He said he was stepping down from the government because he did not want to “affect its...

The U.S embassy in Romania says it is  “deeply concerned” about the suspension of outspoken Romanian judge. Judge Cristi Danilet was excluded from the judicial profession on Monday over private posts on Tik-Tok, he said. The posts were not connected to his work. “An independent justice system which respects the rule of law is essential for any democracy,” a statement from...

Romania’s government on Tuesday said it “condemned any act of intimidation against journalists” after an Italian journalist said she was assaulted in the office of a Romanian senator. Romanian police are investigating the incident. Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca called it “regrettable.” He said he opposed “any obstruction of the right to public information.” The prime minister “considers this incident unacceptable,”...

Consumer prices remained steady in November while annual inflation dropped slightly to 7.8%, the statistics office said Tuesday. The 0.1% dip from October came after the government introduced a ‘cap and subsidy’ mechanism for household electricity and natural gas prices. Electricity fell by 12.2% from October which offset a 1.7% increase in fuel prices. Gas however jumped 2.3% in the past month...

Italian journalist Lucia Goracci has filed a complaint against a Romanian senator after an interview degenerated into an altercation and the senator’s husband physically assaulted her, she said. Threatening Ms Goracci who works for state broadcaster RAI 1 went to interview Diana Sosoaca about her anti-vaccination views for a report about the pandemic and low vaccination rates. The journalist said she was...

Romanian judge Cristi Danileț has been suspended from the profession for posts he made on Tik-Tok. Danilet, who is a judge at the Cluj Tribunal, is known for his outspokenness and for demanding judicial reform. The Superior Magistrates Council said Monday he was being suspended him for “behavior which affects the image of the justice system.” The ruling can be appealed. “They...

The MAN Lion’s City electric bus is has moved into the city of Oradea in western Romania. It is the first electric bus in the city and a step in the journey from polluting vehicles to zero-emissions transport. Public transport fleet It’s been included in the public transport fleet to see how viable it is in real-time traffic. “The future of urban mobility...