Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with civil and political leaders and members of the diplomatic corps at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest, Romania, May 31, 2019. The pope is making a three-day ...

The largest of the Balkan countries, Romania has dramatic mountain scenery and a coastline on the Black Sea. It has seen numerous empires come and go from the Roman and Ottoman to the Austro-Hungarian ...

Johannes Linn is a former World Bank Vice President. He is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Resident ...

Romania will hold its rescheduled two-round presidential elections on May 4 and 18 after the country’s highest court annulled the original November 2024 vote due to evidence of a Russian interference ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — In some European countries, public expressions of Christianity still dignify daily life. Standing near an Orthodox church in downtown Bucharest, people, old and young, make the ...

Romania, a country on Europe’s eastern fringe, is perhaps a surprising focus of attention for a new US administration whose foreign policy priorities include ending the war in Ukraine, reshaping the ...

Romania has the 19th-largest economy in Europe as measured by gross domestic product. It is the largest economy in the Balkans. “The government’s priorities for 2018–20 include the improved absorption ...

With an area of 237,499 square kilometers, Romania is slightly smaller than the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and is the twelfth largest country in Europe. Situated in the northeastern ...

The World Bank Group is preparing a Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2018-2023 with Romania. The process involves consultations with different stakeholders, including private sector, local and ...