Parliament approved the new administration in a 240-143 vote in Romania’s 466-seat legislature. Romanian politicians have voted in favour of a new pro-European coalition government led by incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.

Romania’s leftist Social Democratic Party has withdrawn from negotiations to form a pro-European coalition government, extending political turmoil that has gripped the European Union country after a t

Romania’s political crisis deepened after the largest pro-European party abruptly withdrew from negotiations to form a coalition, opening the prospect of a weaker government to tackle the European Union’s widest budget deficit.

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest The talks on the formation of a ruling coalition in Romania reached a deadlock on December 19 after the Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and current Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu pulled out of the talks,