Nicusor Dan, the former civic activist and pro-European Union centrist politician who defied odds to decisively defeat a hard ...

A pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election, beating out a hard-right nationalist who had channeled people’s anger at the political establishment to surge in t ...

Romania’s president-elect Nicușor Dan faces the political equivalent of fixing a car while driving it, according to allies and potential coalition partners, who warn that the country urgently needs a ...

Far-right candidate George Simion was defeated in Romania's election by the pro-EU Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan.

But as Mr Dan, a 55-year-old mathematician, pro-Western reformist and mayor of Bucharest, takes over Romania’s presidency, fault lines remain in the country where endemic corruption, inequality and an ...