Romania

The President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barosso has said, after a meeting in Brussels with the Romanian Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Romania can count on the European Commission for a final decision on the country’s accession to Schengen to be made in September this year. “It is …

Moldova’s parliament brought a three-year-long constitutional crisis to an end on Friday, March 16 by electing a former judge, Nicolae Timofti, as the country’s president. Timofti, who is 63, had been nominated by Moldova’s ruling pro-European coalition and

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu called Wednesday for an extraordinary EU summit to answer the rising influence of far-right and anti-European parties in Europe.

Moldova is to call a national referendum on country’s joining the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The decision to call a referendum and the exact date for its

The Moldovan parliament has set a presidential election for March 16. The country has had acting presidents for the past 900 days, as parliament has failed to agree on a candidate amid prolonged disagreements between political factions. Members of the ruling pro-European coalition and the Socialists agreed to hold the …

On 2 March, Moldova’s Prime Minister Vlad Filat met Turkish Ambassador to Moldova Mehmet Selim Kartal. The prime minister welcomed the new ambassador to Moldova, accredited

Bulgaria and Romania will spend further months in the waiting room to join the European Union’s Schengen visa zone after the Netherlands continued to insist that the two countries have not made sufficient progress against organised crime and corruption.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that the Netherlands will oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s entry into the Schengen zone until they implement reforms. A decision requires unanimity among member nations of the Schengen visa-free travel zone.

Twenty-two years after the fall of Communism, Romania’s parliament completes adoption of a lustration law. Romania’s lower chamber of parliament, the Camera Deputatilor, on

Opening energy markets for competition is key to competitiveness of the EU economy as a whole. An efficient, interconnected and transparent European internal energy market will also offer consumers a choice between different companies supplying gas and electricity and will make the market accessible to all suppliers, the EC press …