Pro-EU candidate Nicusor Dan has won Romania's presidential runoff against a hard-right nationalist. The vote was seen as a crucial geopolitical choice for the former Eastern Bloc nation with implications for the future of Europe.

Romania’s pro-European Union presidential candidate Nicușor Dan won the country’s presidential election Sunday, defeating his ultranationalist rival.

“Congratulations Nicușor Dan! Long live free Romania,” exulted center-right Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose party candidate also won a narrow election victory Sunday night in Poland. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also thrilled by the outcome, as Dan promises to keep Romania on its pro-EU, pro-NATO pathway.