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Romanian prisoners take to the stage in annual theatre festival

Every winter, inmates from Romanian jails begin rehearsals for an on-stage production performed at the 'Liberation Through Culture' festival. Organisers say it's an immense help to what they do with the rest of their sentences.

02/12/2021

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Back in power, Romania's PSD wants to put its toxic past behind it

Under Liviu Dragnea, the Social Democrats became a byword for corruption and graft. Now a new crop of leaders says that the party has changed.

01/12/2021

Nature

Back from the brink: Bison return to Romania after 200-year absence

Rescued from extinction, wild bison have made themselves at home in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains

01/12/2021

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Romania plans to evacuate 90 Europeans stranded in South Africa

It comes as Europe restricts flights from southern Africa after the detection of the new COVID variant Omicron.

29/11/2021

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World War I veteran is first woman to appear on Romanian banknote

Lieutenant Ecaterina Teodoroiu died in battle in Marasesti in 1917.

27/11/2021

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Romanian National Bank launches first banknote with female personality

It is the first legal tender banknote which features a female personality: Ecaterina Teodoroiu.

26/11/2021

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Romanian MPs approve coalition that will see rotating prime ministers

Under the coalition agreement, Romania will rotate its prime minister every 18 months before the next parliamentary elections.

25/11/2021

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Romania could have rotating prime ministers if new coalition approved

The Liberals and Social Democrats may agree to rotate the role of prime minister between the two parties until the next elections in 2024.

22/11/2021

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Photographer urges Romanians to get COVID vaccine

After spending more than 150 hours shooting inside intensive care units, one photographer is desperately trying to convince people to get the vaccine.

19/11/2021

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Two dead after Romania's fourth fatal hospital fire in a year

Romanian officials said the two victims were male patients in the 70s, while a nurse also suffered serious burns.

11/11/2021

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Romania's two biggest parties will begin talks to end political crisis

A PNL-PSD coalition would end Romania's political stalemate but would be deeply controversial within both parties and among the voting public.

09/11/2021

My Europe Series

Meet the Romanian football star who straddled the Iron Curtain

Miodrag Belodedici was Eastern European football's lucky charm, winning two Champions League titles in the 1980s. He also witnessed the fall of Ceaușescu and the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.

03/11/2021

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Romania's crisis continues as latest PM-designate throws in the towel

Third time lucky?

02/11/2021

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Russia and much of eastern Europe struggle to contain COVID-19 cases

Authorities in Russia and eastern Europe take various measures to combat COVID-19, as vaccine scepticism contributes to rising infections.

31/10/2021

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Romania police recover high-performance bikes stolen from Italian team

The bicycles went missing last week from a hotel in Lille, where the Italian team was staying during the UCI World Track Championships.

29/10/2021

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COVID vaccinations surge in Romania after record daily death toll

Romania has the second-lowest vaccination rate in the European Union after Bulgaria with just 37% of adults now fully vaccinated. The EU's average is 75%.

27/10/2021

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Romania's defence minister nominated to try and form government

Nicolae Ciuca, a reserve army general and Romania's caretaker defence minister, has been named as the country's prime minister delegate. A previous attempt to form a centrist government in Romania failed this week.

21/10/2021

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Romanian police investigate 'false' empty COVID-19 hospital claim

Authorities at the hospital in Piatra-Neamț have told Euronews that their beds are never free of COVID-19 patients.

20/10/2021

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Romanian MPs fail to support new government proposal of Dacian Ciolos

The vote result risks prolonging Romania's ongoing political crisis amid an acute surge of coronavirus cases.

20/10/2021

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Romania in eye of COVID storm with record infections and deaths

Romania is facing a surge in infections amid alarmingly low vaccination uptake.

19/10/2021

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Romania's Dacian Cioloș unveils new cabinet ahead of parliament vote

Romania's prime minister designate is going to ask MPs to vote in favour of a government made entirely of members of his own USR party, which has just 80 seats in parliament.

18/10/2021

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Romania's hospitals overwhelmed with unvaccinated patients

"Some 90 per cent of the hospitalised patients are not vaccinated," Adrian Marinescu, medical director of the Matei Bals Infectious Diseases Hospital said.

16/10/2021

My Europe Series

Meet the nationalist who wants to see Moldova and Romania as one state

Many Romanians would like to see Moldova and Romania as a single country. Most Moldovans don't agree.

14/10/2021

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Why Romania's new PM-designate could face a winter of discontent

Even if Dacian Cioloș can win the support of parliament - which is doubtful - he has an unenviable task ahead, analysts say.

12/10/2021

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Former PM Dacian Cioloș tasked with forming new Romanian government

Romania's former prime minister Dacian Cioloș has been appointed to try and form a new government.

11/10/2021

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Romania faces political deadlock after PM Citu ousted

The only thing that Romania's political parties can agree on is that Florin Citu must go.

05/10/2021