Pro-European Nicusor Dan faces big challenges after defeating pro-Russian George Simion last week in a tense run-off.

Although Dan’s come-from-behind victory has halted Romania’s slide into autocracy for now, it does not resolve the deeper ...

Romania’s newly elected president Nicusor Dan has been officially sworn in, ushering in a tentative close to the worst ...

Nicușor Dan’s victory in Romania proved that the popular desire for independent figures does not have to mean far-right ...

The decision is final, the journalists wrote. The annulment request was submitted by George Simion, leader of the nationalist ...

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania's presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist ...

Simion’s surge to prominence came after Romania’s first attempt to hold the presidential election late last year in which far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped first-round polls.

Loading Across Europe, far-right parties are on the rise ... with other democracies. Romania’s vote was not just a rejection of one man’s extremism. With Simion winning an estimated ...