Michael

On 5 November 2020, an amended version of the law from 1990, granting financial compensation to both victims of the communist regime and their descendants, came into force after being published in Romania's official gazette. 

On March 26, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast of St. Archangel Gabriel.

Ljubljana – Michael O’Flaherty, the director of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), held talks with senior Slovenian officials on Tuesday dedicated to the priorities of Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency.

Mother Queen Helen's funeral procession left on Friday from the Elisabeta Palace toward Curtea de Arges in the applause of those attending the event. Welcomed by dozens of persons, some of them holding tricolor flags, the funeral cortege arrived at the Elisabeta Palace around 12:00hrs.

The first match I attended in Giulesti was on November 23, 2006. It was a rainy and cold autumn evening in Bucharest and Rapid hosted the Czech side Mladá Boleslav for an unattractive League Europe group stage game.

The football was not great and the game ended up in a boring 1-1 draw, but I became a Giulesti regular from that day on.

The celebration of the Romanian Principalities Union Day not just in Romania, but also in Brussels, in the context in which Romania holds the Presidency at the EU Council is a reason for pride and, also, "a confirmation of the fact that the Romanian people always had the strength and wisdom to chose the right path," Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Thursday in Brussels, in a message con

Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was due on Wednesday to meet Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and other Romanian officials in Bucharest, as he furthers his long love affair with the Balkan country.

As Britain awaits Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's impending marriage, Romania is set to have its own royal wedding in September as Nicolae Medforth-Mills, the late ex-king Michael I's grandson, is set to wed his partner, artist Alina-Maria Binder.

Members of several European royal houses, as well as royals from as far away as Bahrain and Japan, are set to gather in Bucharest at the end of the week to attend the funeral of Romania's last monarch, King Michael I, who died last week aged 96.

The king died at his modest residence in the village of Aubonne , in Switzerland, after over a year of battling cancer.

Romanians are preparing for days of mourning ahead of funeral on Saturday December 16 of the country's last king Michael I, who died last Wednesday in his modest residence in Switzerland, at the age of 96.