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romania

June 8, 2019

Romania’s dirtiest power plant faces court challenge over unassessed pollution

Rovinari is one of Romania’s largest and most polluting power plants. The country's authorities have granted it a lifetime permit to operate, without ever assessing its disastrous environmental impacts.
December 22, 2018

UNHCR calls on Romanian EU Presidency to improve response to refugees

UN calls on Romania to use its Presidency of the EU to mobilise a stronger and fairer response to refugees.
November 1, 2018

Legal challenge targets polluting Romanian power plant

A legal challenge has been made to a lifetime permit granted to one of Romania’s oldest and largest coal power plants.
September 24, 2018

RSF condemns arrest of two investigative journalists in Bulgaria

Bulgarian police have detained two journalists investigating allegations of fraud involving European Union funds in Romania and Bulgaria.
June 2, 2018

European Court rulings on CIA torture programmes

The European Court of Human Rights has found Lithuania and Romania were complicit in the CIA’s illegal torture and rendition programmes.
March 10, 2018

Dawn raids in investigation into suspected slavery ring

Forty one vulnerable workers are being supported following dawn raids by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and Merseyside Police investigating an alleged Modern Day Slavery network in north-west England.
January 8, 2014

Eviction of Roma people onto site by waste dump ruled illegal

Rights groups have welcomed a ruling that a Mayor’s decision to forcibly evict 300 Roma in 2010, to a site adjacent to a waste dump, was illegal.
January 1, 2014

Politicians welcome new migrants as UK scare stories falter

As Romanians and Bulgarians achieve full rights to live and work across in the UK, some politicians have offered them a warm welcome.
January 1, 2014

Don't fear Romanian and Bulgarian migrants, says Welsh church leader

Migrants have a positive impact on Wales, says a Welsh church leader, rebutting scaremongering about Romania and Bulgaria.
December 16, 2013

Anti-Roma prejudice and an unlikely prediction

Come January, the right-wing media in the UK might have some explaining to do. The Daily Mail (and their friends in UKIP and the Conservative right) have been telling us that Britain will be flooded by immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, as the last restrictions on their immigration to the UK are lifted.