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The population, by domicile, was 21.77 million people on July 1, 2024, 1% lower than on July 1, 2023, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The phenomenon of demographic aging has intensified, the elderly…

The population by domicile on January 1, 2024 reached 21.83 million people, the National Institute of Statistics reported on Friday. INS "counts" two categories of population, the one by domicile and the resident one. The population by…

A new horror nursing home was detected in District 4 in Bucharest. The old people were sleeping in piles in the basement of the dormitory. It is about an asylum that had been closed by the authorities following inspections in July. It is…

Amid scandal on elderly found in terrible conditions in some nursing homes in Voluntari, near Bucharest, a new similar case was discovered. On Monday evening, the police officers from Ilfov, together with the firefighters from Emergency…

The president of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Mihai Tomescu, and the vice-president of the institution, Adela Crăciun, were dismissed from their positions. The decisions are to be…

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu asked, on Friday, the Minister of Labor to dismiss the management of the County Agency for Payments and Social Inspection (ANPIS) Ilfov in the case of the elderly tortured in the nursing homes in or near…

The police and prosecutors discovered more than 100 elderly people abused by those who were supposed to take care of them, in some nursing homes near Bucharest. They were tortured, forced to work and often left to starve, Digi 24 reports.…

If 2.3 children were born on average to a Romanian woman in 1960, the number of births dropped to 1.6 nowadays, according to World Bank data. The decline in fertility is not unique to Romania, but occurs in most European states. In the…

Eduard Ghiocel and Floarea Ghiocel, married Romanian nationals and suspected leaders of a Romania-based transnational organized crime group, are charged in federal court with laundering $1.4 million in proceeds from dozens of small thefts,…

Television is the main source of news for Europeans, especially for the older generations. European citizens trust traditional media (radio, television or print media) more than online platforms. The news of greatest interest to citizens…