NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Radu Umbres, lecturer at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, about Romania's response to refugees arriving from Ukraine.

Romania’s economy has shifted from rapid convergence to a period of slow growth and mounting fiscal pressure. Up to a point, ...

Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. "I didn't choose what to write," she ...

Dr. Bortun is a Romanian political scientist and a lecturer at Oxford University. We knew it was coming. Ahead of the first round of Romania’s presidential elections on May 4, it was obvious what ...

Calin Georgescu, foreground, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections gestures outside a closed voting station after Romania's Constitutional Court ...

After months of turmoil, Romania has narrowly avoided electing a president who openly opposes the country’s democratic foundations. In a runoff election on May 18, the far-right candidate George ...

‘Snipers and Mistifyers’ shows that the bloodshed that followed the 1989 revolution was almost certainly the work of the Securitate – and not, as military prosecutors claim, the result of friendly ...

Global uncertainty is testing Europe, but in Brussels, thousands of associations quietly provide stability by linking voices, expertise, and solutions. Euractiv conducted a survey among European ...

To mark Romania's independence day (each year on May 10 it celebrates freedom from the Ottoman Empire, earned in 1877) here are a few quirky facts about the country. The other numbers are remarkable.

(Reuters) - Romanians voted in a presidential election run-off on Sunday pitting incumbent President Traian Basescu against leftist leader Mircea Geoana. Following are interesting facts about the ...

With record funding levels and three unicorns to show, local investors are buoyant about Romania’s prospects heading into 2021. We caught up with eight of them recently, and heard how the country’s ...