Romania is committed to fighting climate change and pursuing low carbon development. Therefore, the Government of Romania, through the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC), has requested ...

Romania will hold its rescheduled two-round presidential elections on May 4 and 18 after the country’s highest court annulled the original November 2024 vote due to evidence of a Russian interference ...

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with civil and political leaders and members of the diplomatic corps at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest, Romania, May 31, 2019. The pope is making a three-day ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — In some European countries, public expressions of Christianity still dignify daily life. Standing near an Orthodox church in downtown Bucharest, people, old and young, make the ...

Johannes Linn is a former World Bank Vice President. He is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Resident ...

Economy: With its high-income, mixed economy, Romania is ranked 10th in the European Union by total nominal gross domestic product and seventh largest when adjusted by purchasing power parity.

Romania has the 19th-largest economy in Europe as measured by gross domestic product. It is the largest economy in the Balkans. “The government’s priorities for 2018–20 include the improved absorption ...

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 ...

Romania, a country on Europe’s eastern fringe, is perhaps a surprising focus of attention for a new US administration whose foreign policy priorities include ending the war in Ukraine, reshaping the ...

With an area of 237,499 square kilometers, Romania is slightly smaller than the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and is the twelfth largest country in Europe. Situated in the northeastern ...

After the first round of the Romanian presidential election on May 4, 2025, then-Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu (PSD, Social Democratic Party) resigned. He justified this step by arguing that the poor ...