
Former Romanian PM is freed from prison
A former Romanian prime minister who shot himself in the neck when police came to bring him to prison was freed Monday after serving one-third of his ...

Ethnic Hungarians in Romania mark national day
Thousands of ethnic Hungarians paraded in Romania on Friday to celebrate the Hungarian national holiday, and some expressed concern that their ...

AP Interview: Romanian president blasts corruption
Romania risks always being treated like an outsider in Europe unless it tackles issues such as government corruption, the Eastern European nation's ...
Romania minister: We deserve to join Schengen
Romania's foreign minister has warned Europe's leaders that excluding his country from the group of nations that allow their citizens to travel ...

Romania: Slaughterhouses did not commit fraud
A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food — enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to ...
France hunting fraudsters in horsemeat scandal
Europe's horsemeat scandal is spreading and threatening cross-border tensions, as France says Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders were ...
Romanian president rejects anti-corruption law
Romania's president has vetoed legislation that critics said would make it harder to prosecute lawmakers accused of corruption. President Traian ...
Romanian PM: Patients to pay fee for hospital stay
Romania's prime minister says hospital patients will pay for treatment as part of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to reduce spending ...

Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege
The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, ...
Court to rule on request to release Romanian ex-PM
A court will rule on a petition for the early release of former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase who sensationally shot himself after being ...

Communist palace draws pop stars and presidents
Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator ...

Romanian PM, president pledge no insults
Romania's prime minister and president have agreed to set aside their bitter rivalry for the good of the country and to stop insulting each other.

AP Interview: Romanian PM certain of reappointment
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta should feel like his political battles will become much easier, after his center-left alliance won a sweeping ...

Center-left gov't controls new Romanian Parliament
Official results indicate that Romania's center-left alliance won 67 percent of the seats in Parliament during this week's national election.

Romania gov't easily wins parliamentary elections
Romania's government has swept to victory in a parliamentary election but even that convincing win may not defuse the rancorous rivalry between the ...

Populist emerges in Romania's bitter election
Media tycoon Dan Diaconescu drives a white Rolls Royce, looks like a used car salesman in his shiny mauve jacket, promises to create thousands of jobs ...