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While many countries across Eastern Europe celebrate 100 years since they were born or restored as nation-states after the First World War, not everyone in these states are celebrating.
With Romania at the helm of the EU, many fear that there’s a bumpy ride ahead. But there’s no need to worry (too much).
Romania is leading the European Council for six months. But its government has been dogged by corruption scandals and judicial overreach.
The president, who called the European Union a ‘foe’ following a series of meetings in Europe, may not realize just how much Americans have gained from their relationship with Europe.
New research among well-off Roma families in Romania shows how widespread prejudice against them is.
Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube.
We can’t return degraded landscapes to their original state but we can change the way people relate to their local environments.
EU citizens are being treated as pawns ahead of Brexit negotiations. This has happened before, at the height of the Cold War.
Romania’s ongoing protests against a bold move by the government to decriminalise corruption has highlighted greater social and political issues.
The government claims to have backed down on a controversial emergency decree in the face of mass demonstrations. But all is not what it seems.
The ‘global gag’ will not lower the rate of abortions, but it will increase misery and suffering.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has baffled many in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, where nostalgia for life before the EU is virtually non-existent.
Victor Ponta survived accusations of fraud and tax evasion, but the deaths of dozens of clubbers proved the final straw for his people.
Europe was supposed to be big business for fracking companies, but so far not so good. So what’s going wrong?
25 years after the beginning of the Romanian Revolution. I am standing in the University Plaza in Bucharest. My memory is channeling echoes of gun shots and student resistance; the smell of perspiration…
When I was in Romania last month, the atmosphere was extremely sombre. Romanians were about to elect a successor to Traian Basescu, a two-term president in a country where the role comes with important…
In this fifth part of our series on the countries along Russia’s borders, we turn to south-east Europe. As Romania specialist Tom Gallagher explains, the Ukraine affair has made Bucharest distinctly uneasy…
Romanians take European elections very seriously. These elections affect domestic politics as they do in the UK and other Western member states, but they don’t exist in a separate bubble. In Romania, EU…
New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown a small drop of about 4,000 in the number of Romanian and Bulgarian-born people employed in the UK in the first three months of 2014 – the…



















