Ethnic groups in Romania

Several people in Romania and abroad joined the initiative of two young men of Brasov and contributed to aids to villagers of Doboi, Harghita County - ethnic Romanians, Orthodox, living within a local majority of ethnic Hungarians of Catholic and Protestant faith, and talking to each other in Hungarian even in their homes.

Photo credit: (c) GINA STEFAN / AGERPRES FLOW

A request for arbitration in relation to the autonomy of the 'Szekely Land' in Romania demanded by several local councils from the counties of Covasna, Harghita and Mures was denied on Tuesday in Strasbourg by the Monitoring Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRA) of the Council of Europe.

Photo credit:: (c) Viorel LAZARESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Romania needs to increase the number of people in higher education by at least 10 per cent by 2020 and stop the sharp fall in the number of people going to university, an Education Ministry paper says.

According to official data, only 465,000 students enrolled in late 2013, compared to 891,000 only four years earlier.

The end of restrictions on free movement of Bulgarian and Romanian workers has led to a "small miracle" on the labor market in Germany, a scholar has argued.

Prof Herbert Brücker has cited data from his Nuremberg Institute for Employment Research, which recently prepared a study [DE] on the impact on Germany of Bulgarians and Romanians' free movement across the EU.

BELGRADE - Serbia is entitled to request rights for its minority in Albania, as the Albanian minority in Serbia has absolutely all the rights, in line with top European and world standards, Aleksandar Cotric, a member of the Serbian parliament's committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, said on Friday.

President-elect Klaus Iohannis said in a message on the Day of Romanians from Everywhere that the Romanians outside the borders had the strength and skill to prove by voting that Romania has a big chance, pointing out this "is an eloquent proof of how a nation retrieves its people".

The number of Bulgarians and Romanians who migrated to the UK in the year to end-June has increased sharply, contributing to a rise in net migration above government projections, official figures showed on Thursday.

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Six Romanian nationals were killed and two were injured in a road accident on a motorway in Italy, the Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) reported in a press release on Saturday.

Romania is struggling for the status, recognition and guaranteeing the freedom of the Christian Orthodox Church in Serbia's Timoc Valley, Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean told debates hosted by the Palace of Parliament on Wednesday.

Spokesperson of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Alina Gorghiu claims that Premier Victor Ponta, who is also running in the presidential election under the PSD-PC-UNPR banner, "defied" the Romanians in Italy and Spain and used the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department for Romanians Everywhere in his campaign.