Romania

Romania’s incumbent president and his Social-Democrat rival will face a run-off after Sunday’s first round election, exit polls showed, as the country aims to recover from a political crisis and a deep recession. Centre-right President Traian Basescu and his main rival Mircea Geoana were the two top vote-getters in Sunday’s …

The presidential elections began on Sunday morning in Romania, over 18 million eligible voters are expected to turn to polls to elect a new president for the next five-year term. A number of 12 candidates entered the race for the state’s top position. The incumbent President Traian Basescu is running …

Romanian President Traian Basescu says his country believes that Serbia is “the key to peace in the Balkans”.

Only one thing is (almost) certain about Romanian politics: There will be no victor in Sunday’s presidential vote. That, of course, just kicks the can down the road until a second round on Dec. 6. Incumbent President Traian Basescu, closely tied to the conservative Democratic Liberal Party, has retained, barely, …

Moldovan PM Vlad Filat says that up to 1.2 million Moldovans –more than one-quarter of the population – will be able to travel easily to EU-member Romania. This will come due to an agreement he signed in Bucharest last week.

The ongoing political crisis in Romania has reached a new high point, just days before the November 22 presidential elections. It is becoming increasingly evident that what is at stake is a bitter struggle between rival cliques within the ruling elite over power, influence and money. The country has been …

Bulgaria, the EU country worst hit by gas delivery disruptions last January following a dispute between Russia and Ukraine over transit, warned about delays to infrastructure work designed to boost energy security. The interconnectors are part of a “recovery plan” launched by Commission President José Manuel Barroso before his re-election. …

The Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat declared that the key to the Transnistrian conflict is in Chisinau. The „Solution is in Chisinau and it depends directly on the living conditions, rights and freedoms citizens from the right bank of the Nistru River will have”, Filat said.

More than 1.2 million Moldovans will enjoy a simplified border crossing regime with Romania within an area of up to 50 km of the frontier under the Convention on Small-Scale Border Traffic signed by Vlad Filat and his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc in Bucharest last week.

Romanian President Traian Băsescu, who hopes to win second mandate, has sent critics to the opposition and media heads during the election rally in Cluj. “I will not give up fighting against Parliament and media magnates. I want second mandate,” Băsescu said before three thousand supporters. The idea on cutting …