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The UDMR's background institute has thrown in the towel, and is now drawing up the illustrative material with that.

Sorin Grindeanu is convening the PSD leadership on Monday morning. According to Mediafax, the meeting comes just as the debate over pensions and wages is unfolding, and for the first time the party must answer, alone, without a coalition partner, how much money the country has and what it will spend it on. What's worth watching?

The iPhone keyboard blocks nearly one hundred thousand words and expressions in about thirty languages when a user tries to type them using the faster swipe-typing feature, and the list includes not only vulgar and offensive words but also political expressions.

In Transylvania it is called borvíz, in Romania mineral water, and the country itself holds about 30 percent of Europe's mineral water reserves suitable for drinking, yet the state company managing this treasure has still been turned into a loss-maker. According to G4Media's investigative article of November 5, the National Mineral Waters Company (SNAM), which controls about half of the domestic m

This time they managed to pounce on the duo Richárd Pataki and Raluca Mureșan - and once again sneak into classrooms behind their backs.

In 2025, Romania spent 17.06 percent of its GDP on social benefits, a smaller share than that recorded only in Ireland, Malta and Hungary, and in euro terms Romanian spending grew by just 0.7 percent, managing to outpace only Greece.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, will visit Bucharest on Monday, November 9, where she will hold talks with President Nicușor Dan and Prime Minister Luca Niculescu. According to the announcement of the presidential office, Nicușor Dan will receive her at the Cotroceni Palace at half past three in the afternoon, while the visit was announced by the Commission's spokespers

In a preliminary finding issued on Friday, November 6, the European Commission stated that TikTok is breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) because its recommender algorithms pull users into so-called rabbit holes, showing them an ever-growing stream of similar content, including material that can harm their mental health.

In the future, Romania will have to finance economic growth not from EU funds but from domestic capital and a developed capital market, because EU transfers will no longer reach the scale that has been customary over the past twenty years. This is what Radu Burnete, economic and social advisor to President Nicușor Dan, said on Friday, November 6, at the summit of the Concordia employers' associati

Romania became the European Union's price-increase champion on the residential electricity market in the first half of 2026. According to Eurostat data published on October 30, the price of household electricity rose by 51.9 percent in a year, by far the largest increase among the member states, ahead of Ireland, where electricity became 19.8 percent more expensive, and Finland, where it rose by 1

In Romania, three people can currently found a party, but the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) would raise the threshold to one hundred, and since the rules are being rewritten anyway, it would also take over registration from the Bucharest Court. The Liberals announced on Friday that they want none of this, since the AEP happens to be headed by Adrian Țuțuianu, a former PSD senator.

On Thursday evening, when Romania's electricity consumption was at its highest, more than four out of every ten megawatts came from abroad. Wind power generation had dropped to a tenth of its previous level within two days, and both reactors at Cernavodă were still offline, so imports came close to the capacity of the cross-border transmission lines. Meanwhile, among the European electricity marke

The councillors of Pojorâta, Suceava County, voted on Thursday to start negotiations with Sadova and Fundu Moldovei on creating a joint commune with more than nine thousand inhabitants. If both neighbors agree, residents in all three communes will be asked on the same Sunday whether they want to merge. Meanwhile, Bucharest is already considering what to do with those who don't want to merge on the

If they could assign the Niculescu government a single task for the next six months, most people would ask for more jobs for young people. In the INSCOP survey, this is followed by curbing price rises and raising incomes, but only one in four respondents expects the country's economic situation to improve within six months.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya looked down at the square in Timișoara from the opera house balcony, and was reminded of the 2020 protests in Minsk. The leader of the Belarusian democratic opposition received Timișoara's European Values Award on Friday, and the accompanying 30,000 euros she will donate to Belarusian cultural initiatives. At the award ceremony, she asked Europe to stand by Ukraine, and to

Árpád Antal is once again talking tough to his own Hungarians about the administrative reform plan of the government they themselves voted in – while staying silent in front of Romanian decision-makers.

A 46-year-old woman and her 20-year-old son allegedly forced a 56-year-old Hungarian citizen to work in their household in Băile Tușnad (Tusnádfürdő) for more than a year. According to the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), the man was beaten, had his documents confiscated, and even the wages he earned abroad were taken from him. The Harghita County Court placed

According to Alexandru Nazare, Romania could get a red card from the credit rating agencies if the 2027 budget again promises more than the country can pay. This time the finance minister is asking the ministries for savings, and we're right back at the scene where the PSD walked away from the government table last spring.

The boy wants to rebel, and it would be nice to finally belong somewhere too. Among Italy's neo-fascists he is promised both, though it soon turns out that their first rule of rebellion is that he may speak only when spoken to. Andrea Oriente's debut novel follows the fifteen months it takes the boy to realize what he actually got in exchange for his obedience.

Ten days after the election, it is still unclear who will form a government in Israel, even though the numbers seem clear at first glance. Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing religious alliance, which has governed the country since 2009 with one brief interruption, has lost its majority, and 67 of the 120 members of parliament would like his rival, former Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, to become prime