5 Oct • Top News Major Romanian trade union protest against government, opposition, NGOs in Bucharest About four thousand people protested in Bucharest Victory Square, in front of the Romanian Government HQ on Wednesday. The protest organized by Cartel Alfa, a major trade union, brought together employees from health, transport, police,… Share
4 Oct • Top News Former minister Iordache who sparked massive Bucharest protests now named in key justice position in Romanian Parliament Share
4 Oct • Top News Romanian Constitutional Court decision: top graft prosecutor is required to appear before parliamentary investigation commission on the 2009 elections Share
3 Oct • Top News Romanian Foreign Ministry confirms Romanian citizen wounded in Las Vegas attack Share
3 Oct • Top News Romanian Justice minister ignores negative notice of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) and announces he will not change bills on the judiciary Share
3 Oct • Top News Romanian judges's body requests PM Tudose and Justice minister Toader to withdraw bills on Judiciary Share
28 Sep • Top News Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch to visit Romania in October, first such visit after 1989 revolution Share
28 Sep • Top News Romania's top magistrates body in disagreement with government plans to change Justice laws Share
28 Sep • Top News Ambassador to Bucharest Hans Klemm says US "worried" about Romanian government plans to change laws on the judiciary Share
28 Sep • Top News Defense minister says Romania on path to acquire first Patriot missile system and in advance talks to buy 36 other F16 aircrafts Share
27 Sep • Top News Romania's Anti-graft body DNA calls on magistrates council to defend independence of prosecutors in face of minister's political interference Share
27 Sep • Top News Romanian President Iohannis breaks silence on graft scandal, PSD attempts to change the laws of the judiciary. What can he do? Share
25 Sep • Top News Romania's governing party leadership announces "full support" for ministers involved in corruption case Share
25 Sep • Top News In "Belina" graft case, governing party leader Dragnea says he and his political partners are targets: We are not giving up / The laws of justice will be adopted Share
25 Sep • Top News Venice Commission: There is by no means a financial threshold for abuse of office Share
25 Sep • Top News Sources: Governing PSD party communicators to hold accountable President, other top officials for "liquidation campaign" against party leader Liviu Dragnea Share
23 Aug • Top News OPINION Romanian minister Tudorel Toader's counter-reform of the judiciary: Why proposals announced by Justice minister are poisonous Share
25 Jul • Top News OPINION The cartel against Romanian graft prosecutors: a major change of tactics in battle with anti-corruption chief Kovesi Share
29 Jun • Top News Romania's new government causes outrage in business, political circles on very first day in office Share
21 Jun • Top News Romania Government down as governing coalition slams its own Executive in Parliament Share
15 Jun • Top News Romania's ruling Social Democrats oust prime minister Grindeanu from party ranks, get ready for parliamentary motion against their own government Share
4 Feb • Top News Romanian PM announces withdrawal of corruption-related decree, uses ambiguous language as massive protests continue in Bucharest Share
3 Feb • Top News Bulgarians, Moldovans expected to stage demontrations in support of Romanian protesters Share
1 Feb • Top News Romanian Government faces blanket criticism in wake of decisions undermining fight against corruption Share
1 Feb • Top News EC President Juncker blasts Romanian government moves undermining anti-graft moves Share
31 Jan • Top News Romanian government secretly adopts emergency ordinances critics say undermine fight against corruption Share
29 Jan • Top News Tens of thousands of Romanians attend new protests against government plans to change legislation in favor of corrupt officials Share
22 Jan • Top News Massive protests in Bucharest, other Romanian cities against planned measures aimed at defending corrupt officials Share
17 Jan • Top News Romania moves against fight against corruption, tensions involving intelligence services intensify Share
11 Jan • Top News British press hosts sustained campaign to discredit Romania's fight against corruption. Sentenced businessman and indicted son who fights extradition depicted as political victims Share
27 Dec • Top News Romania President rejects controversial nomination of Muslim woman connected to Social Democratic barons as Romanian PM Share
21 Dec • Top News Sevil Shhaideh, a Muslim woman connected to local moguls with criminal records, is surprise nomination for prime minister of Romania Share
11 Dec • Top News Exit polls: Social Democrats in major lead in Romania parliamentary elections Share
11 Dec • Top News Romania votes in key parliamentary elections marked by graft, revolt, split society and… George Soros Share
9 Nov • Top News Romanian leader Iohannis congratulates US President elect Trump with message supporting joint efforts for stability and security Share
6 Sep • Top News Ex-British PM Tony Blair's name mentioned as Romanian anti-graft prosecutors launch new case against former PM Victor Ponta Share
10 Aug • Top News Sky News report on Romanian "arm dealers" ready to sell guns to terrorists was most probably fake – Romanian judiciary sources. Romanian people filmed in the report facing hearings Share
19 Jul • Top News Turkish journalist Ali H. Aslan: Erdogan has become more powerful than ever / He used the coup attempt to finalize his Islamist revolution Share
29 Jun • Top News VIDEO INTERVIEW Nigel Farage answers why he is still in the European Parliament – a "turkey who voted for Christmas". Plus: his position on Article 50 and racist outbursts in Britain Share
5 Jun • Top News Exit Polls: Social Democrats lead in Romania local elections, with key win in Bucharest. Surprises across the country despite strong apathy Share
5 Jun • Top News Apathy-hit Romanians vote in local polls marked by fight against corruption and seen as test for upcoming parliamentary elections Share
15 Mar • Top News Romanian court issues arrest warrant against Israeli billionaires Beny Steinmetz, Tal Silberstein and Shimon Shevez Share
9 Mar • Top News The balance of navy power at the Black Sea: How do the fleets of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey compare to that of Russia Share
22 Dec • Top News Romanian Justice minister gives first sign that anti-graft head Kovesi's term in office may not be extended Share
17 Nov • Top News Romanian Parliament approves new technocratic government led by Dacian Ciolos Share
14 Nov • Top News Two Romanian dead in Paris terrorist disaster. Romanian authorities condemn attacks Share
10 Nov • Top News Romanian President designates former European commissioner Dacian Ciolos to form new government Share
5 Nov • Top News Romanian President Iohannis names Education minister as interim prime minister in wake of PM Ponta's resignation Share
5 Nov • Top News New wave of massive protests in Bucharest and other cities as Romanians show prime minister's resignation is not enough in wake of nightclub fire disaster Share
4 Nov • Top News Romanian PM Victor Ponta resigns: I'm "giving up my mandate" in wake of deadly nightclub fire and major street protests. Share
4 Nov • Top News VIDEO Major march against Romania's corrupted political class in Bucharest in wake of nightclub fire disaster that killed 32 Share
31 Oct • Top News Two Spaniards, one Italian wounded in Bucharest tragedy that saw 27 killed, up to 200 injured in music club fire Share
29 Sep • Top News UPDATE Censure motion against Ponta government fails in Romanian Parliament. Thousands protest against prime minister in Bucharest Share
15 Sep • Top News Disputes flare as Hungary prepares to build anti-refugee barbed wire fence along Romania border Share
15 Sep • Top News Most prominent radical nationalist in post-communist Romania Corneliu Vadim Tudor has died Share
6 Sep • Top News Bucharest mayor Sorin Oprescu retained by anti-graft prosecutors on bribe taking charges Share
23 Jul • Top News Romania's governing Social Democrats change indicted leader Victor Ponta with sentenced "interim" president Liviu Dragnea Share
17 Jul • Top News Romanian President, Government in major clash as new fiscal code is sent back to Parliament Share
12 Jul • Top News UPDATE Romanian PM Victor Ponta says he withdraws from party leadership in wake of corruption case Share
24 Jun • Top News President Iohannis nominates former PM Mihai Razvan Ungureanu back as head of Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service Share
23 Jun • Top News Romania President Iohannis names controversial politician Gabriel "National Interest" Oprea as interim replacement for PM Victor Ponta Share
11 Jun • Top News Romanian minister sparks outrage saying children of people choosing to work abroad become hooligans, wives turn "whores" Share
9 Jun • Top News UPDATE Romanian President, Embassies take stand as House of Deputies defend PM Ponta against inquiry on corruption charges Share
9 Jun • Top News Romanian deputies build wall around PM Victor Ponta against criminal inquiry on corruption charges Share
8 Jun • Top News Romanian PM Ponta, highest ranking official facing corruption charges, openly threatens opposition as he refuses to resign. Deputies due to vote on request to open criminal inquiry against him Share
5 Jun • Top News Victor Ponta's future in the government following corruption inquiry: three scenarios Share
5 Jun • Top News BREAKING Romanian PM Victor Ponta says he is suspect in corruption case – UPDATE. DNA: Ponta placed under criminal inquiry over false documents, complicity to tax evasion and money laundering. President Iohannis demands Ponta's resignation Share
19 May • Top News Romania President Iohannis signs decree naming controversial prosecutor at helm of key body fighting organized crime Share
15 May • Top News Romania Development minister and key leader of governing Social Democrats Liviu Dragnea resigns following suspended prison sentence in referendum fraud case Share
15 May • Top News Top Romanian minister Liviu Dragnea receives suspended prison sentence of 1 year for fraud in 2012 referendum to dismiss ex-president Basescu Share
14 May • Top News VIDEO/PHOTO "The Cavalry March" – the passing of US armoured vehicles and helicopters through Romanian villages and sunny thristle fields of Baragan Share
5 May • Top News Group of Romanian deputies facing legal problems attempt abusive change of Criminal Procedure Code to counter major anti-graft offensive Share
29 Mar • Top News Russia Ambassador to Romania attacks opinion website and newspaper, calls authors "boors". Contributors.ro website, authors react Share
27 Mar • Top News Sources: Three paintings signed "Picasso" allegedly hidden along dozens of others, found by prosecutors in graft inquiry against former Romanian Finance minister Darius Valcov Share
25 Mar • Top News Romanian MPs once more save fellow senator from arrest on graft charges, but leave minister at prosecutors' hands Share
16 Mar • Top News Head of key Romanian anti-graft body Horia Georgescu retained in corruption probe Share
14 Mar • Top News Romanian Finance minister Darius Valcov accused of taking EUR 2 mln. bribe when he served as mayor Share
13 Mar • Top News Commissioner Corina Cretu uses Parable of Talents to prompt Romania use financial instruments in support of SMEs Share
10 Mar • Top News Romania says it regrets blunder after Foreign minister gave German counterpart a brochure with German flag printed on France map. Gift initiative belonged to local news agency Share
9 Mar • Top News EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier: Germany ready to contribute to creation of a NATO command center in Romania / Plus: sanctions and Ukraine, interests of German companies Share
21 Feb • Top News OPINION The major issues with President Iohannis' nomination of politician Eduard Hellvig as head of Romanian Intelligence Service Share
19 Feb • Top News President Iohannis proposes Liberal politician, supporter of US-Germany-Romania security axis, to head Romanian Intelligence Service Share
17 Feb • Top News Anti-graft prosecutors investigate case involving business owned by Romanian PM Victor Ponta's family. Ponta's crony Sebastian Ghita summoned as "suspect" Share
4 Feb • Top News Romania anti-graft prosecutors call for preventive arrest of former Romanian minister, presidential candidate Elena Udrea in multiple corruption cases Share
3 Feb • Top News Top Romanian media owner and former CEO of Central European Media Enterprises Adrian Sarbu retained under tax evasion, money laundering-related charges Share
31 Jan • Top News Former Romanian minister, presidential candidate Elena Udrea denounces interim head of intelligence service, speaks of links between services, shady business, politics and media Share