The candidate of Romania’s Liberal party won the mayoral race for Bucharest, strengthening the position of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan inside the ruling coalition as he pushes through a package of austerity measures to trim the European Union’s widest budget deficit.

The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone

Romania’s government is mounting a second attempt to overhaul a generous pension system for the judiciary, in a test for its ability to push through reforms and narrow the European Union’s widest budget deficit.

Romania’s defense chief said the NATO member state will soon be able to deploy a US-supplied anti-drone system to thwart a rising number of airspace breaches by Russia.