Romanian leaders would hate the comparison to Ceausescu, but their foreign policy is part of a pattern.
His father used to offer refuge to persecuted Romanian political leaders from Transylvania, and went into considerable debt for this.
He is also a strong critic of Communism and of Romanian leaders that had connections with the Communist regime.
Both men met separately with each of the Romanian leaders in Bucharest.
The Romanian leaders wanted to share in that utopia as well to prove their independence.
Political humor of the 1940s preserved distinct images of the Romanian leader.
But since Mr Brezhnev's death the Romanian leader has lost his ability to act as an irritant.
Budapest was abuzz with rumours that the embattled Romanian leader might be planning to seek refuge in China.
A1 A veteran Romanian leader resigned.
Serious questions remain on the positions of the various Romanian Communist leaders on the Pătrăşcanu case.