As a member of the EU and one of the easternmost members of the NATO military alliance, Romania plays a pivotal role in ...

Long before he entered politics, he was recognised as a math prodigy, winning two consecutive gold medals at the ...

Romanians are casting their ballots in a tense presidential runoff between a hard-right nationalist and a pro-Western ...

There was a wave of euphoria and relief across Europe following the election of pro-European liberal Nicusor Dan as Romania’s ...

Presidential elections on Sunday in Romania and Poland halted, or at least slowed, hard-right breakthroughs that many ...

European leaders reacted with relief and support after the centrist, pro-EU mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, won Romania’s ...

Imagine having a president called Nicky.That's what Romanians just voted for: a softly-spoken, slightly geeky mathematician ...

Elections in Romania, Portugal and Poland were defined by a clash of pro-EU and far-right candidates. A pro-EU Bucharest mayor won the Romanian presidency, but the far right performed well in all ...

Nicusor Dan, the former civic activist and pro-European Union centrist politician who defied odds to decisively defeat a hard ...

Far-right candidate George Simion was defeated in Romania's election by the pro-EU Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan.

By Brian Dooley Who won the election in Poland? No-one, yet. Only three of the candidates got double figures, and none the required 50% needed, so the top two — Rafal Trzaskowski, who won 31.3%, and ...

With nearly all ballots counted, Romanian voters have elected Bucharest's mayor, a centrist and pro-European Union candidate, as president, over the nationalist choice.