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Now playing Next Romania Euroviews. Pandemic-born far-right party has rattled Romania's democratic future The main parties' belief that they can regain far-right voters lost to AUR through nationalist and ultra-conservative discourse might resurrect the ghosts of Romania's past even further instead of letting them go once and for all, Andrei Tiut writes. 12/05/2023
Now playing Next Europe News Brussels ends 15 years of special rule-of-law surveillance on Romania The European Commission concluded Romania had made enough progress on anti-corruption legislation and judicial reforms. 23/11/2022
Now playing Next Romania Romania's defence minister resigns after Russia peace remarks Vasile Dincu was criticised for stating that Ukrainian talks with Russia were the only way to end the war. 24/10/2022
Now playing Next Romania Romanian education minister resigns amid plagiarism accusations Sorin Cimpeanu is accused of 'fraudulently appropriating' 13 chapters of a university course he had taught. 30/09/2022
Now playing Next Culture news Romania's biggest minority: Who are the Szeklers? This group of Hungarian-speakers have won a court case against Heineken, but do you know who they are? 24/06/2022
Now playing Next Romania Court jails eight people over deadly Romania nightclub fire in 2015 They were given final jail sentences totalling 61 years. 12/05/2022
Now playing Next Romania Ex Romanian minister to appear before extradition judges in Bulgaria after fleeing 6-year sentence Elena Udrea, a former Romanian minister, will appear before extradition judges today in Bulgaria after fleeing a 6-year sentence for bribery and abuse of office. Her final appeal was rejected by judges in Romania on Thursday, but she had already left the country, crossing into Bulgaria that morning. 09/04/2022
Now playing Next Romania Romania's Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca denies plagiarising his thesis A Romanian journalist has claimed that nearly a third of the PM's doctorate thesis contained plagiarised content. 18/01/2022
Now playing Next Romania New COVID-19 measures in Romania as infections surge Face masks will be mandatory and bars and restaurants will operate at 50% or 30% capacity as part of the new measures. 08/01/2022
Now playing Next Romania Protest in Romania over bid to extend COVID health pass to workplaces Romania has the EU's second-lowest vaccination rate with just 39.6% of its population fully vaccinated, compared to more than 67% for the rest of the bloc. 21/12/2021
Now playing Next Romania Romanian minister resigns following plagiarism reports Florin Roman, who had served in Romania’s new coalition government for less than a month, quit his post after his education credentials were called into question. 15/12/2021
Now playing Next Romania 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
Now playing Next Romania 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
Now playing Next Romania 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
Now playing Next Romania 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
Now playing Next Romania Romania's crisis continues as latest PM-designate throws in the towel Third time lucky? 02/11/2021
Now playing Next Romania 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
Now playing Next Romania 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
