Pro-European Nicusor Dan faces big challenges after defeating pro-Russian George Simion last week in a tense run-off.

Although Dan’s come-from-behind victory has halted Romania’s slide into autocracy for now, it does not resolve the deeper ...

Romania’s newly elected president Nicusor Dan has been officially sworn in, ushering in a tentative close to the worst ...

Nicușor Dan’s victory in Romania proved that the popular desire for independent figures does not have to mean far-right ...

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania's presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist who had channeled people's anger at the political establishment to surge in ...

The decision is final, the journalists wrote. The annulment request was submitted by George Simion, leader of the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians, who lost in the second round. Read ...

Simion’s surge to prominence came after Romania’s first attempt to hold the presidential election late last year in which far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped first-round polls.

Loading Across Europe, far-right parties are on the rise ... with other democracies. Romania’s vote was not just a rejection of one man’s extremism. With Simion winning an estimated ...