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

WARSAW—Exit polls showed a slim victory for the mayor of Warsaw to be Poland’s next president, a result that would mark the ...

Romania's new president, Nicușor Dan, has been officially sworn in, ushering in a tentative close to the worst political ...

Nicusor Dan was officially sworn in as Romania's newly elected president on Monday, ushering in a tentative close to the ...

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

A top Romanian court has rejected as unfounded a request to annul the presidential election by the hard-right candidate who decisively lost the race to his pro-European Union opponent on Sunday.

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 ...

DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP The shock caused by the strong showing of far ... right, eurosceptic and pro-Russian forces that proliferated around the powerful "antivax" movements that shook Romania ...

Observers say the malaise has bolstered support for nationalist and far-right figures ... segment of Romania that wants change,” he said, adding that it would be a “huge rejection of the ...