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The weekend of the second round of the high-stakes presidential elections brings a large book fair in Bucharest, events marking the St Nicholas celebration, and numerous Christmas markets. In Bucharest: Gaudeamus December 4 – December 8 One of Bucharest’s two main book fairs, Gaudeamus returns at Romexpo’s B2 Pavilion with the latest releases, meetings with…

Journalists at Snoop.ro were recently threatened for exposing a network of ads and news created with Russian funds to back Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu. Georgescu, who came seemingly out of nowhere and claimed the first place in the initial round of the presidential elections, has always claimed to have conducted his campaign with virtually…

Social Democrat (PSD) prime minister Marcel Ciolacu announced his support for USR leader Elena Lasconi in the second round of the presidential elections following the release of declassified documents alleging illegal foreign funding in the campaign of far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu. The documents, disclosed by Romania’s Supreme Defense Council (CSAT) on December 4, suggest…

Investigative and academic reports published ahead of the second round of the presidential elections in Romania show pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu maintained close ties with members of the far-right organisations claiming to continue the work of the fascist Legionary Movement founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, which also operated as a political party in Romania between 1927…

The head of the Romanian investors’ association Concordia, Dan Sucu, in a press conference on December 4, assured that the members of his association can not agree with the rhetoric circulated by presidential candidate Calin Georgescu against foreign companies and urged for full transparency regarding the visibly strong financing for Georgescu’s campaign. Dan Sucu said…

Romania’s Presidential Administration has declassified the reports provided by the intelligence services (SRI, SIE), the Foreign Ministry (MAE), and the special telecommunication services (STS) to the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT), which, in its November 28, said that “cyber attacks with the aim of influencing the correctness of the electoral process” took place and, separately,…

The Social Democratic Party PSD, Liberal Party PNL, Save Romania Union USR, and Hungarian party UDMR, plus the representatives of the minorities in Parliament, which together accumulate more than 60% of the votes in the Parliament after the December 1 elections, signed on December 4 a joint pro-European and Euro-Atlantic declaration that they aim for…

At 48.0 in November, Romania’s manufacturing index PMI changed slightly from 48.1 in October, remaining in the negative territory and signaling a slow but steady deterioration in the health of the Romanian manufacturing sector. Romanian manufacturers continued to contend with challenging operating conditions in November, as nearly all the PMI components remained in negative territory. …

Visitors to Romania’s famous Peleș Castle in the mountain town of Sinaia can only see the main exhibition on the ground floor from December 4 onwards due to a major water system failure that has been affecting the castle for over a year.  Documents provided to Agerpres indicate that the evaluation report on the water…

Romania’s mainstream centrist parties, namely the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL), the reformist Union Save Romania (USR), and the party of the ethnic Hungarian minority, UDMR, are set to establish a pro-European majority in Parliament. The deal leaves out far-right parties which surged to about 33% in the recent parliamentary elections…