Damages worth nearly 1.5 billion lei were recuperated by policemen specializing in economic crime, following complex actions conducted last year in the realm of tax evasion, a release of the Romanian Police General Inspectorate (IGPR). According to the quoted source, 719 persons were subject to preventive measures, 127 of them being placed under preventive arrest. […]
The general mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, has been cleared to run in Romania’s upcoming presidential elections after the Constitutional Court (CCR) rejected all challenges against his independent candidacy. The top court ruled on Tuesday, March 11, dismissing five complaints filed against the Central Electoral Bureau’s (BEC) decision to validate his...
Gil Shohat's The Eichmann Trial is set to premiere at the Bucharest National Opera (ONB), with the first performance scheduled for March 30. The opera production is based on Motti Lerner's play of the same name, which premiered at the Bucharest National Theater (TNB) last year. It focuses on the trial of the SS lieutenant-colonel […]
The European Parliament announced on March 11 that it endorsed the EUR 1.9 billion support package under the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova. Of the total, EUR 420 million will be provided as grants. Besides increasing the grant side by EUR 100 million, MEPs backed an increase in pre-financing...
A country that failed to organize free elections over the past 20 years is not in a position to comment on democracy, the Romanian Foreign Ministry responded in a press release to statements made by the Russian president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, in defense of Romanian far-right politician Calin Georgescu and his ban on the presidential […]
Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu said that the unanimous decision of the Constitutional Court (CCR) judges on banning the presidential candidacy of far-right politician Calin Georgescu "closes an extremely tense and dangerous episode" that Romania has experienced in recent months. He also said that the peaceful...
Romania's far-right party AUR has reportedly picked up several possible replacements for Calin Georgescu as presidential candidate on the night of March 11, but the final decision will be taken after consultations with Georgescu aimed at getting his support, Hotnews.ro reported. Calin Georgescu cannot run in the May...
