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People protest outside the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Marchers took to the streets Saturday in the Romanian capital of Bucharest to protest restrictive measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 even as new daily infections and deaths rose in the European Union nation. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Marchers protest Romania's virus restrictions as cases soar

By Stephen Mcgrath Apr. 10, 2021 04:13 PM EDT

George Simion, one of the leaders of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians or AUR, speaks to protesters after a deadly fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Hundreds marched during a protest organized by the AUR alliance demanding the resignation of several top officials, after a fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed five people. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Romania: Protesters want reprisals for fatal hospital fire

Jan. 30, 2021 04:19 PM EST

Romanian prime minister-designate Florin Citu speaks after his nomination in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Romania's president on Tuesday appointed the outgoing finance minister as prime minister-designate after three pro-Western center-right groups joined forces to keep out of power a left-leaning populist party that won most votes at a parliamentary election earlier this month. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Former banker named PM-designate after Romania election

By Vadim Ghirda Dec. 22, 2020 01:07 PM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 file photo, Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and head of the ruling National Liberal party, bottom, comes out of the party headquarters shortly before exit polls in the country's parliamentary elections were announced, in Bucharest, Romania. Romania’s center-right prime minister Ludovic Orban resigned Monday Dec. 7, 2020, after a general election in which voters delivered nominal victory to the left-leaning, populist opposition party. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)
Romania’s center-right prime minister resigns after election

Dec. 07, 2020 07:01 AM EST