Weekly review: Romania’s war on justice
This week has again been marked by the ongoing political fight over the control of justice as Romania heads into
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‘Bulgarians and Romanians make a positive contribution to UK economy’
The positive contribution that most Bulgarians and Romanians currently in the United Kingdom make to the British economy was acknowledged
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Romanian TV presenter’s comments spark fury in Moldova
A protest was held on January 15 by a Romanian-Moldovan association in front of the B1 TV station in central
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Romanian court rejects MPs’ super-immunity
The Constitutional Court, Romania’s highest court, decided on January 14 2014 that a series of amendments to the Penal Code
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Romanian, Albanian held as police bust network of 280 burglars in France
French law enforcement authorities working with Europol, have dismantled a Paris-based network of prolific burglars and arrested 15 individuals. Two
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Hungary sets up program to buy land in Romania’s Transylvania
The Hungarian government is drafting a program through which to buy plots of land in Transylvania, one of Romania’s historical
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Former Romanian PM gets second prison term
Former Romanian PM Adrian Nastase (2000-2004) was sentenced on January 6 2014 to a further four years in prison for
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Romania’s Basescu calls for internal debate on union with Moldova
Romanian president Traian Basescu called on January 6 2014 for an internal debate on union with the Republic of Moldova,
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Central and Eastern Europe in 2013: Emerging and submerging
There were record floods, changes of government, protests – lots of those – and the European Union got larger by
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