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Recommended reads (July 23-29, 2022) (July 30, 2022)

COVID-19 update (July 23-29, 2022) (July 30, 2022)

The president next door visits (July 30, 2022)

Recommended reads (July 9-22, 2022) (July 23, 2022)

COVID-19 update (July 9-22, 2022) (July 23, 2022)

The war next door (July 23, 2022)

Recommended reads (July 2-8, 2022) (July 9, 2022)

COVID-19 update (July 2-8, 2022) (July 9, 2022)

Cîțu out, Orban back? (July 9, 2022)

Invasion of Ukraine and its impact (July 9, 2022)

Bucharest to upgrade its siren warning system (July 7, 2022)

Romania COVID cases nearly doubled (July 4, 2022)

Romania will have cheapest fuel in the EU after Hungary: Popescu (June 28, 2022)

Nicolae Ciucă elected new PNL president (April 10, 2022)

Romania’s Prime Minister vies for party leadership (April 7, 2022)

COVID-19 update (March 26-April 1, 2022) (April 2, 2022)

Recommended reads (March 26-April 1, 2022) (April 2, 2022)

Editorial: Ukrainian refugee crisis (April 2, 2022)

Editorial: Dăncilă leaves PSD… while Cîțu (PNL) fights for his political life (April 2, 2022)

Declining trend in the number of COVID-19 cases: Arafat (February 10, 2022)

Photo of the week (January 22, 2022)

Recommended reads (January 15-21, 2022) (January 22, 2022)

COVID-19 update (January 15-21, 2022) (January 22, 2022)

Editorial: Green pass (January 22, 2022)

Editorial: Copy-paste job (January 22, 2022)

Anti-COVID vaccination remains the solution to prevent serious illness: Arafat (January 20, 2022)

Green pass ditched (January 15, 2022)

Recommended reads (January 8-14, 2022) (January 15, 2022)

Eight million Romanians vaccinated (January 11, 2022)

Corona jabs nearing 16 million (January 5, 2022)

Almost eight million Romanians fully vaccinated after first year of vaccination campaign (December 27, 2021)

Recommended reads (December 11-24, 2021) (December 27, 2021)

COVID-19 update (December 11-24, 2021) (December 27, 2021)

Editorial: First minister out, new party (December 27, 2021)

Fifth wave only three weeks away: Bode (December 23, 2021)

Government adopts 2022 budget (December 20, 2021)

AUR will appeal new corona restrictions (December 15, 2021)

Risky health behaviours are responsible for more than half of all deaths in Romania (December 13, 2021)

Recommended reads (December 4-10, 2021) (December 11, 2021)

New podcast: Promoting Democracy (December 11, 2021)

State of alert extended, several corona measures relaxed (December 8, 2021)

New podcast: Against the European Trend (December 5, 2021)

Recommended reads (November 27-December 3, 2021) (December 4, 2021)

Romania will issue 687 million euro in domestic debt (November 29, 2021)

Recommended reads (November 20-26, 2021) (November 27, 2021)

Environmentalists block gold mine in Rovina (November 26, 2021)

Moldovan President visits Romanian counterpart (November 23, 2021)

Recommended reads (November 13-19, 2021) (November 20, 2021)

Number of jabs drops slightly (November 18, 2021)

7 million Romanians fully vaccinated (November 17, 2021)

PNL leadership agrees to rotating prime minister. Big hurdle taken in formation of PNL-PSD-UDMR government (November 16, 2021)

Number of daily vaccinations remains steady around 100,000 (November 16, 2021)

Romania’s GDP rises 7.2% in Q3 (November 16, 2021)

50,000 second corona vaccines administered today (November 15, 2021)

Despite win in final match, Tricolorii fail to qualify for World Cup 2022 in Qatar (November 15, 2021)

80,627 vaccines administered in past 24 hours (November 14, 2021)

More than 90,000 jabs on Saturday (November 13, 2021)

Recommended reads (November 6-12, 2021) (November 13, 2021)

COVID-19 update (November 6-12, 2021) (November 13, 2021)

Jaqueline Cristian dramatically loses her first WTA final (November 13, 2021)

Second doses outnumber first jabs today (November 12, 2021)

Orban expelled from PNL (November 12, 2021)

Romania-Iceland 0-0. Tricolorii now in third place (November 12, 2021)

Subject matter “History of the Jews. The Holocaust” to be introduced in Romanian schools (November 11, 2021)

Slight uptick in vaccinations; 32,612 second doses (November 11, 2021)

Halep withdraws, Cristian in her first WTA final (November 11, 2021)

71,605 Romanians vaccinated on Wednesday (November 10, 2021)

Indictment in 1989 revolution case back to square one after 30 years (November 10, 2021)

ICCJ decides today on the revolution case in which Ion Iliescu is being tried (November 10, 2021)

Fewer vaccinations today (November 9, 2021)

At current pace only 50% of Romanians will be fully vaccinated by end of the year: Gheorghiţă (November 9, 2021)

Uptick in vaccinations on Monday, almost as many booster as first doses (November 9, 2021)

Liberals also agree to negotiations with PSD (November 9, 2021)

Draft green certificate law under debate in Chamber of Deputies (November 8, 2021)

PSD leadership votes unanimously to negotiate forming government with PNL and UDMR (November 8, 2021)

Only 56,701 vaccinations in past 24 hours (November 7, 2021)

Despite vaccination marathons fewer Romanians are getting first jabs (November 6, 2021)

Recommended reads (October 30-November 5, 2021) (November 6, 2021)

More vaccinations today (November 5, 2021)

Interactive map of Romania: vaccination rates vs corona deaths (November 5, 2021)

If green certificate had been mandatory there would have been 300,000 people vaccinated each day: medical doctor (November 5, 2021)

Romania, Ukraine say more troops needed on the Black Sea (November 5, 2021)

82,614 Romanians were vaccinated today (November 4, 2021)

No majority in Parliament yet for a new government: Iohannis (November 4, 2021)

Photo of the week (November 4, 2021)

Number of first corona jabs stabilises around 47,000 per day (November 3, 2021)

Romgaz paid US$ 1.06 billion for Neptun Deep (November 3, 2021)

900,000 Romanians have received booster (November 2, 2021)

Romanians use their credit card much more since pandemic (November 2, 2021)

Ciucă gives up (November 2, 2021)

Interest in corona jab is waning (November 1, 2021)

Law capping energy and gas bills into effect (November 1, 2021)

Simona Halep defeated in Transylvania Open final (October 31, 2021)

7 million Romanians have now received first dose (October 31, 2021)

Record wheat harvest in 2021 (October 31, 2021)

Halep reaches Transylvania Open final (October 30, 2021)

Vaccinations taper off on the weekend (October 30, 2021)

Ciucă submitted governing programme and list of ministers of ministers to Parliament (October 30, 2021)

Recommended reads (October 23-29, 2021) (October 30, 2021)

COVID-19 update (October 23-29, 2021) (October 30, 2021)

Editorial: Marionette? (October 30, 2021)

Liberals agree on cabinet (October 30, 2021)

Slight slow down in vaccination drive (October 29, 2021)

350 oxygen concentrators arrived from the Netherlands (October 29, 2021)

Ruling by Bucharest Court of Appeal expected in Colectiv case (October 29, 2021)

Exodus from PNL: MP Bogdan Bola 11th representative to leave parliamentary group (October 29, 2021)

Senator and interim minister of Agriculture Adrian Oros follows Orban in resigning from PNL parliamentary group (October 29, 2021)

Today’s COVID-19 jabs drop to 126,492 (October 28, 2021)

Will OMV sell Petrom? (October 28, 2021)

Green light for Romania’s recovery and resilience plan (October 28, 2021)

150,935 people vaccinated in past 24 hours (October 27, 2021)

Corona pass law does not pass Senate (October 27, 2021)

Emma Răducanu’s first ever WTA win at Transylvania Open (October 27, 2021)

Romania is backsliding in the fight against human trafficking: NGOs (October 27, 2021)

Romania collects more plastic than Germany, France or Hungary (October 27, 2021)

Daily vaccinations keep rising, 150,000 Romanians got jab today (October 26, 2021)

Almost sixty percent of Bucharest now vaccinated (October 26, 2021)

Ludovic Orban breaks with PNL parliamentary group (October 26, 2021)

Another 93,000 Romanians received first corona vaccination today (October 25, 2021)

Poland to send medical mission to Romania (October 25, 2021)

Photo of the week (October 24, 2021)

Romanians keep coming out in massive numbers this weekend to get vaccinated (October 24, 2021)

Almost 100,000 Romanians receive their first COVID-19 jab (October 23, 2021)

Quote of the week (October 23, 2021)

COVID-19 update (October 16-22, 2021) (October 23, 2021)

Recommended reads (October 16-22, 2021) (October 23, 2021)

A weak government? (October 23, 2021)

Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate (October 23, 2021)

128,014 people vaccinated in the past 24 hours of which 86,385 with first dose (October 22, 2021)

Romania’s Dedeman most profitable company in Southeast Europe (October 22, 2021)

Record 100,000 corona jabs in Romania today (October 21, 2021)

PM-designate Ciucă asks PSD for support to form government (October 21, 2021)

Nicolae Ciucă nominated as prime minister-designate (October 21, 2021)

In Romania, Pentagon chief urges more Black Sea cooperation (October 21, 2021)

Record number of corona vaccinations today (October 20, 2021)

If we want pandemic to end, vaccination is only solution: Iohannis (October 20, 2021)

No support in Parliament for Cioloș minority cabinet (October 20, 2021)

Green certificate must be a passport to access: Turcan (October 20, 2021)

Over 5,7 million Romanians now fully vaccinated (October 19, 2021)

Moody’s improves Romania’s outlook from “negative” to “stable” (October 18, 2021)

Cioloş and his proposed USR cabinet appear in Parliament Wednesday (October 18, 2021)

More than 550,000 Romanians have now received booster shot (October 18, 2021)

Cioloș submits list of ministers and USR governing programme to Parliament (October 18, 2021)

WHO concerned about high number of corona deaths in Romania (October 18, 2021)

41,566 doses administered in past 24 hours (October 17, 2021)

Photo of the week (October 17, 2021)

59,319 covid-19 jabs in past 24 hours (October 16, 2021)

Quote of the week: “Each leu invested in education generates eight lei” (October 16, 2021)

Recommended reads (October 9-15, 2021) (October 16, 2021)

COVID-19 update (October 9-15, 2021) (October 16, 2021)

To quarantine or not to quarantine, that is the question (October 16, 2021)

Editorial: Cioloș prime minister-designate (October 16, 2021)

More than 73,000 Romanians vaccinated today, October 15 (October 15, 2021)

Industry stagnates, dragged down by disruptions in car production (October 15, 2021)

Over 11 million doses administered in Romania (October 14, 2021)

Energy sector in Romania in the middle of complex transition (October 14, 2021)

Romania reaches 437,884 third doses against coronavirus (October 13, 2021)

First gender equality monitor maps female achievements and disadvantages in EU regions (October 13, 2021)

Each leu invested in education generates eight lei: World Vision (October 13, 2021)

58,409 doses administered on Tuesday, October 12 (October 12, 2021)

In defence of nuclear power (October 12, 2021)

Limited effectiveness of rapid COVID-19 tests: study (October 12, 2021)

Mobile hospitals will re-open (October 12, 2021)

Annual inflation rises to 6.3% in September (October 12, 2021)

Tricolorii win over Armenia reinvigorates hopes for Qatar 2022 (October 12, 2021)

Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust will become reality (October 11, 2021)

Romanians among lowest Internet users in EU despite increase (October 11, 2021)

51,721 people vaccinated on Monday, October 11 (October 11, 2021)

Backstage games in the PNL: low stakes in a big fight (October 11, 2021)

GDP in second quarter 1.9% higher than in previous quarter: INS (October 11, 2021)

35,394 Romanians received a jab today (October 10, 2021)

5,521,404 Romanians now fully vaccinated (October 9, 2021)

COVID-19 update (October 2-8, 2021) (October 9, 2021)

Spike in vaccinations (October 9, 2021)

Romania the new Lombardy (October 9, 2021)

Dismissed! (October 9, 2021)

Tricolorii defeated by Germany after 1-0 lead at half-time (October 9, 2021)

57% of Romanian schools exceed new air pollution norms (October 8, 2021)

Metrorex launches suicide prevention campaign (October 7, 2021)

Interest rate hike (October 6, 2021)

EBRD acquires minority stake in EIG (October 5, 2021)

“New” leader, “new” party (October 4, 2021)

M6 approved (October 4, 2021)

Photo of the week (October 3, 2021)

Recommended reads (September 25-October 1, 2021) (October 2, 2021)

COVID-19 update (September 25-October 1, 2021) (October 2, 2021)

Judgment Day (October 2, 2021)

Fire in ICU kills seven in Constanța hospital (October 1, 2021)

Investors have robust confidence in Romanian economy despite political turmoil (October 1, 2021)

U.S. Open champ to play at Transylvania Open (September 30, 2021)

Best foreign film award for new Radu Muntean movie (September 28, 2021)

The future is green and nuclear (September 28, 2021)

People vaccinated with Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines can get booster shots: Gheorghiță (September 28, 2021)

European Commission backs Romania’s 29.2 billion euro recovery and resilience plan (September 27, 2021)

Photo of the week (September 26, 2021)

Cîțu newly elected leader of Liberal Party (September 25, 2021)

Corona green certificate will be required at restaurants, shows, private events, playgrounds (September 16, 2021)

President Iohannis promulgates “5G law”; interview with Tiberiu Gîndu (ANISP) (June 18, 2021)

“What really changes institutions is more the context than the actual training of institutions”: Interview with Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment) (March 23, 2021)

“Local communities do not forget who they voted for one year, two years, three years before”: Interview with Dumitru Sandu (University of Bucharest) (December 5, 2020)