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European Voice readers select Bulgaria's European commissioner for her role as consumer champion; ECB's president wins award as ‘most valued European'. Meglena Kuneva...

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

The quieter route out of Brussels. Klaus Regling, the 57-year-old director-general for the Commission's economic and financial affairs department since 2001, is leaving his...

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...

It has only taken days as a member state for Romania to come under attack for infringing the sacred EU principle of free movement. Despite instructions from the government in...

Achieving reforms in justice and home affairs was a persistent problem for Bulgaria and Romania during accession talks. European Commission reports over the years have...

Monica Macovei, Romania's justice minister, said she was confident that her country would meet the requirements laid down by the European Commission to overcome continuing...

Two weeks ago Romanian Justice Minister Monica Macovei returned to her home to find two rings of her gas cooker on but unlit, with fumes spreading through her second-floor...

Romania's justice minister has voiced concern over the reluctance of members of the country's parliament to endorse anti-corruption measures required for EU membership....

Two words feared by the political elite in Sofia and Bucharest are being uttered with regularity by leading figures in Brussels: 'safeguard clause'. In May, the European...

All political parties in the European Parliament have expressed doubts about Romania's success in the fight against corruption, setting up an efficient and independent...

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, the poet and politician of Romanian nationalism, looks like Elvis Presley and talks like Jean-Marie Le Pen. He claimed last year that he was giving up...

It is tempting to say that the dogs in the street know about the charisma of Romania's new president. But one of the legacies of Traian Basescu's stint as mayor of Bucharest...

NEWS from Europe's eastern frontier dominates coverage this week – as Ukrainian upheaval, Romanian restlessness and Turkish tension provide dramatic headlines.

The Canadian-Romanian Rosia Montana Gold Corporation's plans to develop Europe's largest gold mine in Romania exploiting 300 tonnes of gold and 1,600 tonnes of silver...

I LOVE Romania for all the obvious reasons: the wine, the weather, the language, the people, the mountains, the baroque politics, the rich and implausible history, the...

HOPES are high in Romania that the European Commission will shortly recommend that its talks on joining the Union be wound up by the end of this year. The EU executive...

ENORMOUS progress has been made under the Irish EU presidency in the membership negotiations with Bulgaria, which has now closed 26 of the 30 main negotiating chapters....

Millions of Romanians have been misled by the present government and its Prime Minister Adrian Nastase. These are people who once dreamed of a new and better life, people...

THEY might be separated by much more than the Danube but the ambitions of Romania and Bulgaria to join the European Union have become deeply intertwined. Privately, EU...