Now 60, the "Maradona of the Carpathians" or "the King" -- as he is fondly known in the eastern European nation -- dreams of leading his country back to the pinnacle of world football.

A huge mural of Gheorghe Hagi graces his football academy, a reminder of Romania's spectacular performance at the 1994 World ...

Thousands of Romanians gathered in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday to protest the December cancellation of a presidential election and the banning of its far-right frontrunner from standing for ...

Last November, Calin Georgescu – who admires Vladimir Putin and is no fan of Nato – came from the extremist fringe to win the ...

Pro-European demonstrations have taken place in the capital cities of Serbia, Romania and Hungary over the weekend.

People wave Romanian and EU flags during a pro-European rally, joined by thousands, to counter what the organizers described ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania’s electoral body ... gathered in central Bucharest waved European Union and Romanian flags at a pro-EU rally to counter what the organizers described as a ...

George Simion, the leader of Romania's most popular far-right party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), walks with former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, in Bucharest, ...

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S.O.S. Romania, won 24 seats after securing some seven percent of votes in December's legislative elections. Simion's AUR said banning Sosoaca's candidacy "represents a further blow to Romanian ...

A top Romanian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy for the rerun in May of Romania's presidential election, after the same court ...