A group of investors is trying to sue Facebook after its share price dropped sharply this week. Could the tide be turning for Mark Zuckerberg and the world's biggest social network? And the camera never lies: a Romanian journalist tries to fake a sandstorm for his weather broadcast... with entertaining results.
Romanian President Traian Basescu nominated leftist opposition leader Victor Ponta as Prime Minister on Friday following a no-confidence vote that brought down a two-month old centre-right government.
Romania’s military flew tons of emergency food to thousands of villagers stranded by blizzards in the east of the country on Monday. Soldiers cleared roads and tugboats broke ice on the Danube as a record cold snap held its grip on Europe.
Romania’s Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday following weeks of unrest spurred by the cost-cutting measures his government has introduced as part of an IMF bailout deal. Intelligence chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu was named to replace him.
An estimated 2.5 million Roma people live in Romania. Here, the government has fully understood the importance of education in integrating the community into wider society. But in practice, going to school often brings new problems for these Roma families.
It's yet another blow to the supposed right to free movement within the European Union. Spain has been allowed by the EU to restrict its job market to Romanian workers. Madrid says it has to do this as it struggles with the highest unemployment in the EU. The number of Romanians in Spain has quadrupled in the last five years to more than 800,000, but now many of them feel ostracized and unfairly singled out.
In today's show we find out if the ex-Nouvelle Vague singer Nadéah is as flamboyant, playful and theatrical as she seems. Also on the programme, a classical music festival in Bucharest that gives a nod to an earlier, grander era and the 'French Elvis' stages a reincarnation. The rock legend Johnny Hallyday stars in a slightly camp Tennessee Williams play in Paris.
Argentina’s Pumas roared to an overwhelming 43-8 victory over Romania Saturday in a Pool B match of the Rugby World Cup, scoring four tries within the first half hour.
Today on the net, more and more Syrian activists are now calling for foreign intervention. Romanian villagers campaigning against the construction of an open-pit gold mine. And a website which ranks hackers and pits them against each other…
Could the future of European organic farming be in Romania? Investors in the agricultural industry have come to realise what a goldmine lies under the green pastures of the Carpathian mountains - land here costs a fractions of Western European prices and farmers can buy far bigger properties.
