The country’s government is centrist, with deep ties to Brussels. Its new president is a Trump-backed nationalist. That ...

A new national poll conducted by INSCOP Research between May 26–30 shows newly elected president Nicușor Dan leading the ...

Socially conservative Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001, decades later than other parts of the EU, but still bars ...

Hard-right populist George Simion will contest Romania's presidential election result. The 38-year-old had been the favourite to win at the polls - but unexpectedly lost to pro-Western candidate ...

In the lead after the first round is the Donald Trump-loving George Simion, a 38-year-old nationalist who opposes aid to Ukraine and has previously favored uniting Romania with its neighbor Moldova.

George Simion is just 38 years old but now sitting on the threshold of remarkable power. He is the populist politician who has made it to the run-off to become Romania's president. We are ushered ...

and the right-wing firebrand nationalist George Simion, 38, who has embraced Donald Trump’s MAGA movement with a Balkan spin — his promise is to “make Romania great again.” Georgescu has ...

George Simion won 41% of ballots cast in the first round of the re-run on May 4 – double the number of his rival, Nicusor Dan, the centrist mayor of Bucharest. Many see him as taking up the ...

Hard-right Romanian presidential candidate George Simion is spending his last campaign days not in Romania, but on a foreign tour. Simion is seeking the decisive votes of the Romanian diaspora and ...

George Simion appears well placed to be elected to the role, which is largely ceremonial. But his talk of “uniting” the country with people and land in other nations has infuriated neighbors.

Pro-EU Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan has won Sunday's presidential runoff against George Simion, the leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians. This blog has now closed.

The leader of the opposition Alliance for the Unification of Romanians party, George Simion, called the refusal of the Constitutional Court to annul the voting results on the basis of a complaint ...