Romania

The UN's Population Division has released projections that say several Balkans states can expect worrying declines in their populations over the next few decades.

Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party, the PSD, is due to name a new Prime Minister by Monday after it voted the former Prime Minister out of office on Wednesday.

Romania's prime minister and his government have been ousted in a no-confidence vote submitted by ruling party members.

A total of 241 politicians approved the motion on Wednesday, more than the 233 votes required.

The governing Social Democratic Party filed the motion to oust Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, saying that he had failed to implement the party's political agenda.

Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party, PSD, and its junior ally, the Alliance of the Liberals and Democrats, ALDE, passed a no-confidence vote against their own government on Wednesday, after a week of turmoil triggered by the refusal of Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu to resign.  

Romania's government has collapsed after only six months in office, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed official.

Reuters said, citing a senior official, that Romania's parliament passed the no confidence motion 241-7 and toppled the government of Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu.

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Romania's parliament is set to vote on Wednesday on a no-confidence motion on the government led by the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD - a motion launched by the PSD itself.

The vote comes after the PSD's failed negotiations with the country's ethnic Hungarian party, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, sparked nationalist reactions from some politicians.

Romanian prosecutors have uncovered an organised criminal group suspected of training more than 70 Roma children and sending them to France to steal from offices, pick pockets and beg on the streets of Paris.

Prosecutors said in a statement that on Monday they searched 25 homes in several Romanian cities and brought in 120 people for questioning in connection with the case.

Romania has made progress in defending rule of law and in fighting corruption, and any sudden step back would raise questions in Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday in a joint press conference in Berlin with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.

Poland and Romania emerge as the most steadfastly pro-Western of seven Central and Southeast European states whose citizens' opinions on a range of EU and NATO-related topics have been analysed by the NGO Globsec.