by Mihaela Rodina and Anca Teodorescu Agence France-Presse BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) – Romania’s prime minister insisted Thursday that the government will press ahead with decrees decriminalising certain corruption offences, defying the country’s biggest protests since the end of communism. “We took a decision in the government and we are going to press ahead,” Sorin Grindeanu said after a meeting in Bucharest of his ruling left-wing Social Democrats (PSD). In the largest demonstrations since the fall of […]
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Romanian government declares 3-day national mourning after Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 27
(Reuters) — A candle-lit memorial is set up outside a Bucharest nightclub on Saturday (October 31) and Romania’s government declared a three-day national mourning, after an overnight fire killed 27 people and injured 184 during a rock concert that featured fireworks used indoors. In one of the capital’s worst disasters in decades, up to 500 people, mostly young adults, stampeded for the only available exit as the club in the basement of a Communist-era sport-shoe factory […]





