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Report slams new rules on anti-corruption agency. Romania has breached anti-corruption commitments it made before entering the European Union in 2007, the European...

Politicians are blotting out the promised dawn of true public-service broadcasting in central and eastern Europe. In the early 2000s, political elites in central and eastern...

Emil Boc becomes the country's new prime minister; dealing with economic slowdown high on new government's agenda. Romania's new government took office today (23 December),...

Daniel Morar has made political enemies. Can this inscrutable man with a frosty demeanour keep his job? In 2001, when the then justice minister Monica Macovei was conducting...

Commission could sanction Romania over anti-corruption appointments. The Romanian parliament has approved a law that would, according to the European Commission, break the...

Romanian judicial body rejects proposed replacement for much-praised anti-corruption chief. Romania's justice minister, Cătălin Predoiu, has suffered a blow in his...

Daniel Morar will not continue as chief prosecutor of Romania's anti-corruption agency, despite Commission backing  Romania's justice minister has decided to replace...

The EU should get tougher in forcing the Romanian government to come clean about corruption. On Europe Day, Traian Ba?sescu, the Romanian president, made a small blunder in...

Eastern Europe's untouched nature is under threat from over-exploitation. More than half of the European population of brown bears, wolves and lynx are found in Romania and...

Tudor Chiuariu, justice minister of Romania, departed last week after only eight months in office. The 31-year-old resigned after the national department against corruption...

Socialists in the European Parliament have been getting all squeamish about the referendum campaign in Romania as to whether President Traian Basescu should survive an...

The public might not immediately notice that the European Commission has a 27th member. Leonard Orban, now in office for just one week as Romania's commissioner, does not go...

ROMANIA'S presidential and parliamentary elections next month are prompting serious concern among EU politicians. This is not due to any wavering in the country's commitment...

Bulgaria and Romania will each have a European commissioner when they join the EU bringing the number of EU states and the number of commissioners to 27. According to the...

On 25 April the treaty on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU will be signed. Both countries have sizeable Roma minorities and are facing serious problems...

GAY groups and MEPs have warned that homophobic laws suspended by the Romanian government last week could still find their way back onto the statute books. The changes,...

Romania's Foreign Minister Petre Roman may well be the best example of his country's most striking characteristic - the ability to survive. Just as Romania endured one of...

A VISIT by Romania's foreign affairs minister to Brussels next week will signal a remarkable turn around in the country's international image. Six months ago, Romania was on...

ROMANIA'S presidential and parliamentary elections next month are prompting serious concern amongst EU politicians. This is not due to any wavering in the country's...