Formally independent since 1877 and a republic since 1947, Romania, subjected to a communist regime since the end of the Second World War, freed itself of the dictatorship of Ceausescu with the revolution of December 1989, which was quickly followed by substantial changes to the Constitution of 1965 and the abolition of the leading role of a single party. A new Constitution, approved with the referendum of December 1991, instituted…
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Yearbook 2003 Romania. At the beginning of the year, the remains of Romania’s old King Carol II were brought to his homeland 50 years after his death in exile. Just before the outbreak of the Iraq war in March, Romania expelled five Iraqi diplomats, whose presence was “undesirable”. According to Countryaah.com, Romania Independence Day is May 9. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase denied that the decision was made under pressure from…
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