Romania

Although geothermal energy remains one of the most promising of renewables, local communities across Europe have different experiences with it.

The results of Romania’s presidential election show citizens’ disillusionment with the country’s established political forces and institutions.

A cross-border investigation explores groundwater depletion in Romania, Italy, and Germany, three of the EU’s hardest-hit countries.

Faced with cost of living, housing, and healthcare crises, Romanians are disillusioned with available political options.

During communism, irrigation systems made the Romanian Plain agriculturally robust, but have since collapsed. Droughts are the new reality.

Luiza Medeleanu on the history and visions for the future of Europe’s largest ethnic minority.

Ioana Banach on imagining a Romanian education system that could provide an alternative to emigration and poverty.

Romania’s vaccination campaign conceals a power struggle which could push the country past breaking point.

The actions of citizens taking to the streets to call for political change have had a defining impact on Romania’s recent history and continue to shape its politics.

Referendums in Romania have been instrumentalised by various political actors as strategies to increase legitimacy and popularity.