History of Romania since 1989 unstable coalitions which have been subject to similar allegations. During the period Romania has become more closely integrated with the West, becoming a member of NATO in 2004 and of the European Union in 2007. 1989 marked the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. A mid-December protest in Timișoara against the eviction of a Hungarian minister (László Tőkés) grew into a country-wide protest against the Ceaușescu régime, sweeping the dictator from power. On 21 December, President Nicolae Ceaușescu had his apparatus gather a mass-meeting in Bucharest downtown in an attempt to rally popular support for his regime and publicly condemn
Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudau (born December 19, 1945) is a Moldovan politician and was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova. He was born on December 19, 1945 in Grinauti, Ocnița District, in the Moldovan SSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Moldovan SSR. From 1990 to 1991 he was the First Secretary of the Chisinau City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. In 1994 he became the Ambassador of Moldova to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1997, Daudu was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs