Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades says no one, not even members of his own family, will be immune to investigations of alleged financial wrongdoing in the run-up to an international bailout deal. Anastasiades made the remarks on Monday evening in reaction to reports accusing his relatives of transferring millions of euros out of the island state to London. A... 

Romania’s Defense Minister Mircea Dusa Bucharest says the United States is going ahead with deploying controversial anti-missile interceptors in Romania despite opposition from Russia. Romanian Defense Minister Mircea Dusa says the missile system will most likely be deployed in 2015. “I have very serious assurances from the American side that the investment in Romania will continue,” said... 

Russian Iskander high-precision missile system The United Stated is abandoning a key part of its Eastern European missile defense plan due to development problems and funding, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced. The focus, he said, will be shifted to perceived threats from North Korea. Interceptors in Poland and Romania, the deployment of which had been the source of heavy criticism from... 

Demonstrators in Transylvania, a historical region in the central part of Romania, pay tribute to the Szekely flag. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in the central Romanian city of Targu Mures, calling on the government of Romania to grant regional autonomy to the Szekler Land. Szekler Land sits in three Romanian counties: Harghita, Covasna and Targu Mures, the first two of which have... 

Prime Minister Vlad Filat. Moldova’s pro-European government has received a vote of no-confidence spurred on by rivalries within the three-party Alliance, leading to the collapse of the government. The ruling Alliance for European Integration fell on Tuesday after receiving a vote of no confidence, jeopardizing hopes of integration into the European Union as the country seemed to move closer towards... 

A police officer prepares to search a group of Romanians living on Park Lane’s central reservation in London Up to 40 beggars have made Park Lane their home, transforming a stretch of the central reservation into a gambling den and doss house On Saturday, in the first part of this major series on the expected imminent influx of unskilled workers from Romania and Bulgaria, we revealed how countless... 

A NATO base may appear in Moldova, near the border of the breakaway Transdniestrian Republic. Officials representing the Transdniestrian authorities say that the information is true. Their counterparts in Moldova do not deny the news either. Russia stated clearly that it would recognize Transdniestria, if Moldova decided to unite with Romania. Is the conflict about to unfreeze? The situation around... 

People from the Roma community walk outside their camp in Evry, near Paris, with their belongings after being expelled by French police on August 27, 2012. Police in France have dismantled a Roma camp near the capital, Paris, expelling 70 people, including 19 children, from their shelter. Local police moved in the encampment in the suburb of Evry early Monday in a bid to remove the people from the... 

France declares war on illegal migrants. Riot police smash camps and hundreds rounded up for deportation as Socialists take on gipsies. French police were yesterday breaking up gipsy camps and deporting illegal immigrants found in them. Dozens of officers in riot gear descended on a settlement near Lille shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some 200 Roma living in mobile homes. One hundred... 

Romanian President Traian Basescu delivers a speech to parliament on July 6, 2012. Romanian MPs have voted to impeach President Traian Basescu, initiating a process that could oust the unpopular leader in a national referendum. Some 256 of the bicameral parliament’s 372 deputies voted to impeach Basescu, 114 voted against the motion, and two votes were canceled, the final count showed. Senate... 

Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase tried to kill himself on Wednesday evening (June 20 ), before being taken into custody by the Police and sent to jail, following the Supreme Court decision in a corruption case earlier during the day. He shot himself in the neck with a 9 mm gun that he owned. Nastase was rushed into the Emergency Room at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, where... 

Britain’s Home Office is drawing up contingency plans to restrict the number of economic migrants from Greece and other European Union nations in case the euro collapses. ­EU rules allow citizens to work anywhere in any country in the single market, including the UK, with the exception of new members Romania and Bulgaria. People looking for work abroad may see Britain as an attractive option as... 

The shocking number of earthquakes that have rattled the globe, especially along tectonic plate boundaries, since the double 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes struck off the coast of Northern Sumatra on April 11 could be early indication the planet may be shifting towards a new catastrophic model. Romania’ s top seismologist, Gheorghe Marmureanu, told the Bucharest Herald: “There is no doubt something... 

Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. ­By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Romania and several others. “Our Orthodox civilization may not be that large,... 

The US is planning to spend $4 billion to upgrade NATO’s Western European nuclear arsenal. The “unnecessary and expensive” initiative is likely to stir new animosity with Russia, a report says. ­The alliance is preparing to replace “dumb” free-fall nuclear bombs with new generation of precision-guided nuclear gravity bombs, reveals a report by the European Leaders Network (ELN), a political...