Romania Protests

Romania's president slams government over protests

Centrist President Klaus Iohannis criticised the Social Democrat-led government for a decree, later scrapped, that decriminalised some corruption, triggering the largest demonstrations in Romania since the fall of communism in 1989.

Romania scraps decree in face of mass protests

Mass protests for six days forced the government to scrap the decree that would have decriminalised some corruption.