A vote to make legalising equal marriage even harder was defeated this weekend. It’s a victory for progressive politics, but the fight isn’t over.

Whereas the stereotypical pro-government voter consumes partisan local media; by contrast, the stereotypical protester in Bucharest owns an iPhone and reads international newspapers online.

Similar problems are observed as in Romania, joined by Bulgaria at the bottom of the league table in terms of infant mortality in the EU.

Violence and anti-LGBT hate crime is on the rise in Romania, says activist Vlad Viski. But he and his colleagues refuse to stay silent.

Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001. Today it is witnessing a backlash against LGBT rights, supported by US Christian conservatives.

Journalists in Romania failing to conform to pressure from private companies and advertisers face intimidation and risk losing their jobs.

Hungarian artist Peter Puklus talks about his photography book The Epic Love Story of a Warrior, European history of the 20th century, and Marina Tsvetaeva. RU

What will it take to stop western Europe from seeing their eastern counterparts as exploitable labour?

On this year's International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour was used to help build Europe's prosperity, and how Roma communities are still suffering the after effects.

The philosopher of post-Fascism enters the populism fray with his own candidate for post-truth – Left betrayal. Czech.

What makes these protests different from the ones that have come before in Romania?

Romania's government has been accused of legalising corruption, inspiring the largest protests since the fall of communism. We explain the controversy.

Romania celebrated its first decade as a member of the EU on 1 January 2017. This then is a time for assessing what this decade has meant for the country that still lies, geographically speaking, at 'the margin' of Europe.

Romania should be the ideal playground for right-populist parties, but in its recent election it was the Social Democrats who left everyone else in the dust.

A new party is born in Romania, grounded in years of civic struggle against government abuse and the failures of a neo-liberal state. Can Demos follow in the footsteps of Syriza and Podemos?

World Food Day, 2016: Agribusiness mega-mergers would rubber-stamp destructive industrial farming. Europe’s fightback gathers in Romania.

To paraphrase Edward Said – “everyone who writes about eastern Europe must locate himself vis-à-vis eastern Europe."

There’s been a series of recent scandals in Romania's healthcare system that would seem implausible if written by scriptwriters in western Europe.

For years it was a taboo topic. But some Moldovans are again considering reunification with Romania. 

A documentary that takes us inside communist Romania claims a trend for illicit Hollywood 'movie nights' helped spark a revolution. Part of openDemocracy's partnership with Unorthodocs.