Far from sudden, the far right’s rise in Romania is rooted in decades of economic failure: Chronic underdevelopment, ...

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist ...

Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan has won Romania’s closely watched presidential runoff against a hard-right ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — When Romania’s constitutional ... against another ruling in March to bar his political ally, Calin Georgescu, who had emerged from obscurity to lead that aborted poll.

Romanians returned to the polls on Sunday in a rerun of November's annulled presidential election that left the country in deep political turmoil. The Constitutional Court cancelled last year's vote ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — It might be Romania’s most ... Here’s what to know. In November, Calin Georgescu emerged from obscurity to lead the balloting. The court barred Georgescu from running ...

As Romania heads into a critical presidential runoff on Sunday between two starkly different candidates, many view the final ...

Romania today is not an authoritarian state ... the first round of voting in November 2024 was won by a far-right candidate—but in that case, Calin Georgescu, an upstart independent candidate with ...

On a cold Saturday morning last December, Călin Georgescu, the far-right ultranationalist standing to be president of Romania, gathered with a group of his closest aides at a horse ranch outside ...

Many see him as taking up the mantle of Calin Georgescu, the obscure ultranationalist who came from nowhere to win the first round and was poised to become Romania’s next president – until ...