Elena Marinescu

Europe Correspondent, The Continental Times

Elena covers europe for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

Romanian Court Jails Former County Boss for 7 Years in Road-Contract Bribery Case

The verdict against a once-untouchable local baron is the heaviest sentence anti-corruption prosecutors have won in the northeast in a decade.

Oct. 8, 2026 5 MIN READ

The Palace of Culture in Iași, where the appeals court sits. The city is the judicial center of Romania’s northeast.

One in Five Hungarian Pupils Now Attends a Church School, and the Shift Is Accelerating

Generous state funding and the decline of municipal schools have made religious institutions the fastest-growing part of the education system, in a country where few families attend services.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ

The Great Reformed Church in Debrecen, the center of Hungarian Calvinism, whose school network has tripled in size since 2010.