For many years since I started providing political counseling and, implicitly, electoral campaigns for various elections, I’ve heard it circulated: less in certain moments, more loudly in other moments. It was the notion of independent candidate. It is a completely utopian notion, actually, considering that, in Romania, in the last dozens of years, party oligarchy, […]
Home sales increased in Romania with an annual rate of 6.6% in 2024, according to a report released by real estate consultant SVN Romania based on official statistics. The rise in Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov county was 7.6%. Almost 169,000 residential units were sold last year in Romania, while home sales registered in the […]
Beginning in January 2025, Romania's armed forces have expanded their involvement in NATO's defense measures on the eastern flank by contributing personnel and military equipment to two additional battle groups. These are stationed in Slovakia, where Romania provides an anti-tank detachment, and Bulgaria, where a reconnaissance unit is deployed, the Ministry of Defence (MApN)
The Dacia Sandriders crew consisting of driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Édouard Boulanger, representing Romanian car manufacturer Dacia at the famous Dakar Rally, secured the win in the ninth stage of the race. Nasser, 54, participated in six Olympic Games and won bronze in 2012 in Men's Skeet. This is his 21st Dakar Rally. Boulanger, […]
The Bucharest Tribunal has ruled to replace Andrew Tate's house arrest with judicial control in the ongoing case where he is investigated for the alleged sexual exploitation of 34 women. The decision is not final, according to News.ro. ...
Hundreds of police officers from several counties in Romania protested on January 14 against the reduction of their incomes as an effect of the fiscal corrective package endorsed by the government at the end of 2024. Under the corrective package, some bonuses have been reduced or eliminated, while overtime will be compensated with...
The Romanian far-right opposition party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) filed a request to summon the lawmakers on January 20-24 to begin the procedures for suspending president Klaus Iohannis from office, Digi24 reported. AUR...
