Category: Romania

Aid Volunteers in Ukraine Also Facing Trauma Themselves

Volunteers seeking to aid some of the three million refugees coming across the border from Ukraine will experience anguish themselves, said a Trauma Therapy counselor to The Epoch Times on March 15. “It’s essential that volunteers who have little or no experience dealing with traumatized adults and children get ready for what they are about…


Aid Volunteers in Ukraine Facing Trauma Themselves

Volunteers seeking to aid some of the 3 million refugees coming across the border from Ukraine are experiencing anguish themselves, a trauma therapy counselor told The Epoch Times on March 15. “It’s essential that volunteers who have little or no experience dealing with traumatized adults and children get ready for what they are about to…


A Debut Spy Novel at the End of the Cold War

Spy novels are like assassinations: they can be hit or miss. William Maz’s debut spy novel “The Bucharest Dossier” is an absolute hit. Maz joins the show to discuss his Cold War spy novel set in Romania on the eve of the 1989 Christmas Revolution. Learn about the story’s characters, how the story came about,…


Volunteers in Romania Working Non-Stop to Help Ukrainians Fleeing War

A steady stream of refugees from Ukraine heading into Romania are finding their way to American Jim Leach and his wife, Becky, who had been leading a team of full-time volunteers to aid Romanian orphans over the past five years. At least, he said, that’s what they did until two weeks ago. “Then the war…


Beautiful Bucharest: An Overlooked European Capital Worth Exploring

The upheavals of 1989 are now a long time ago, but walking down that street in the heart of the capital, Theresa relived it all, like yesterday. Unlike some revolutions across Eastern Europe, the uprising in Romania wasn’t peaceful. Over there, she says, pointing to a balcony, that’s where Ceausescu made his last speech. The…


Romanian Media Say Arms Plant Blast Kills 4, Injures 4 More

BUCHAREST, Romania—An explosion Thursday at a weapons factory in a small southern town in Romania killed four people and injured another four, local media said. The afternoon blast occurred in the town of Babeni in Valcea County about 125 miles from the capital, Bucharest, and was caused by an anti-personnel mine, Romania’s National Press Agency…


Romania’s Prime Minister-Designate Fails to Win Parliament Confidence

BUCHAREST—Romania’s designated Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos failed to win a parliamentary vote of confidence for his centrist minority cabinet on Wednesday, extending a political stalemate. Romania, one of the European Union’s poorest states, has been in political paralysis since a liberal-led cabinet was toppled by Parliament on Oct. 5, threatening the economic recovery from the…


Romanian Government Falls After No-Confidence Vote

BUCHAREST, Romania—Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu of the governing National Liberal Party was ousted Tuesday after a no-confidence motion in his government passed overwhelmingly, deepening an ongoing political crisis. The motion censure was filed by the opposition Social Democrat Party (PSD) and supported by former coalition partner USR-Plus and the far-right AUR party. The motion…


For Family and Freedom

Parting from his wife and two sons was the hardest thing Tiberiu Czentye had ever done—harder than the upcoming 40-mile trek that would end with him crawling on the ground as he tried to evade armed guards near the Romanian–Yugoslavian border, harder than what would be months of hard labor in a Yugoslavian prison after…


Romania Approves Bill to Bar China, Huawei From 5G Networks

BUCHAREST—Romania’s centrist government on Thursday approved a bill that effectively bars China and Huawei from taking part in the development of its 5G network, a member of the IT&C and National Security Committee told Reuters. Europe has emerged as a battleground in the technology ‘Cold War’ playing out between China and Washington and Huawei’s European…