By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) will not attend ruling coalition meetings until several policy conditions are met, interim party president Sorin Grindeanu said on ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led ...

The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania's first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, ...

Honor guard soldiers carry the coffin of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of ...

Honor guard soldiers perform a changing of the guard by the coffin of late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. It was Ion Iliescu, then 59, taking the reins as the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was being ...

Watch live as the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, lies in ...

On the day of Ion Iliescu’s funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania’s first elected president after the fall of communism ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

Iliescu had been admitted to hospital with lung cancer roughly two months ago. "History will judge Ion Iliescu, the main ...

Romanian former president Ion Iliescu, who presided over the eastern European country's chaotic transition from communism to democracy, died on Tuesday aged 95, the government said.

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae ...