Nicușor Dan

President Nicușor Dan, an independent moderate, proposed MEP Mureșan for the job — but lawmakers in Bucharest refused to back his candidacy in a crunch vote Wednesday

European governments have escalated warnings over an intensifying Russian "hybrid" campaign against the continent, which officials say is meant to test the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (Nato) resolve

He was not in charge of the actual warfare but was responsible for logistics, technological innovations, anticorruption measures and talks to secure aid or loans from Western allies

Two F-16 fighter jets scrambled after spotting a drone "loaded with explosives" near a Black Sea gas project

Burnham hosts Zelensky and offers ‘stone cloak’ devices just a week after taking PM job

A Romanian fighter jet on Sunday shot down a third drone that had entered its national air space in as many days, prompting President Nicușor Dan to blame Moscow for the “inadmissible and intolerable” incursions

Romanian officials have not yet identified the drone’s origin or purpose

A quarter of the way through the 21st century, the horror and guilt inspired by two world wars appear to have vanished

Romanian authorities approached the vessel and evacuated the entire 17-member crew, including three injured sailors

Megrelidze said that, despite the emotional strain, the crew followed protocol, evacuated the vessel and helped three injured teammates

Vestea, 52, a leader of the Liberal party, has been tasked with forming a new pro-Western parliamentary majority after a technocratic solution proposed by EU deputy Tomac did not find the necessary support

The exception was Italy, where more respondents opposed an increase in the defence budget

President Nicușor Dan designated the liberal Renew Europe MEP Eugen Tomac as prime minister, on the grounds that none of the party leaders in Romania’s fractious parliament could form a stable administration

It hit an apartment building, wounding two and drawing condemnation from NATO

The impact sparked a fire, injured two people and prompted an overnight emergency response

Romania faces weeks or months of political talks to form new majority

British fighter jets scrambled after Russian strike on Nato border

The incident has prompted Cyprus, a non-NATO EU member that currently holds the bloc's rotating presidency, and other member states to seek clearer operational guidelines for the EU's mutual defence clause

Trump issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea in a bid to stabilise global energy markets

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to keep up pressure on Russia to end its four-year invasion of Ukraine on Friday, March 13, after Washington partially rolled back its sanctions against Moscow to lower oil prices, which were sent soaring after US-Israeli strikes against Iran sparked a regional conflict late last month

The discussions in Florida on Thursday, which did not include representatives from Ukraine, came hours before the US issued a 30-day licence for countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea, in an effort to stabilise global energy markets roiled by the Iran war

He did not say, however, whether this included Russia, though he spoke to Russia's President Vladimir Putin on March 9

US President Trump convenes inaugural ‘Board of Peace’ meeting after decades of inaction on addressing core Palestinian demands to end the Israeli occupation