The searches conducted by the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) on Tuesday target company Exfin SRL, belonging to Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s mother and sister, sources from the judiciary told. read more...

The High Court of Cassation and Justice on Wednesday dismissed an appeal lodged by the National Agency for Integrity and ruled that President of Romania Klaus Iohannis was not in a situation of incompatibility while serving as mayor of Sibiu. read more...

Romanian President-elect Klaus Iohannis said on Friday that, in his opinion, a Constitution revision is necessary and he promised to be a president who will follow “the letter and the spirit” of the fundamental law. read more...

A helicopter has crashed on Friday near the town of Medias (north of Sibiu County, central Romania), sources in the county police say. read more...

Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu announced he would tender resignation at the Government’s meeting on Tuesday. read more...

Liberal head Klaus Iohannis dedicated his win in Sunday’s presidential elections to the Romanians and stressed Romania ‘has built up strength to get well’. read more...

The presidential candidate of the Social Democrat Party – National Union for Romania’s Progress – Conservative Party (PSD-UNPR-PC), Victor Ponta, has stated Sudnay evening that the parallel count of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) shows that the Liberal Klaus Iohannis has won the elections and has added that he will not resign the position of Prime Minister as nobody requested this and believes there is no need for such a thing. read more...

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep on Thursday qualified for the semifinals of the WTA Finals taking place in Singapore, after Serena Williams lost her first game in the match against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, in the red Group of the competition. read more...

The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has announced on Friday that in the first round of the presidential elections (November 2) 18,336,254 citizens have the right to vote; in the second round (November 16) the number is 18,334,071. read more...

Social Democrat Party (PSD) chairman, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, has stated, on Tuesday, at the PSD National Council in Craiova, that PSD will win the presidential elections in November 2014. read more...

PSD-UNPR-PC (the Social Democratic Party, the National Union for Romania’s Progress, the Conservative Party) electoral alliance in the elections to the European Parliament carried out on Sunday obtained 37.25% of the electors’ options, the National Liberal Party (PNL), 14.86%, and the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL), 12.36%, according to the partial results the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) supplied on Monday morning. read more...

The 12 F16 Block 15 aircraft recently acquired by the Romanian Air Forces, will be used for the air police, as well as for fighting enemy actions, according to sources in the Romanian army. read more...

An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale occurred on Friday morning at 3:49 local time ( 0:49 UTC), at a depth of 82 km, in Vrancea seismic zone, Vrancea County ( northeast of Bucharest ), followed , two seconds later, by a second tremor of 3.3 on the Richter scale at a depth of 70 km, according to the information posted on the website of the National Institute for Earth Physics ( INFP ). read more...

More than 22 people, doctors and nurses, on Tuesday morning got aboard two airplanes that left for Podgorica to take over some of the injured in the road accident of Sunday in Montenegro. read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta made on Monday an appeal to solidarity and to unity, after the road accident in Montenegro in which 18 Romanians were killed. read more...

Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration Liviu Dragnea says Romania will be divided into eight or nine development regions by the end of the year which leadership could be elected in indirect elections. read more...

The European Council President Herman Van Rompuy will pay a visit to Bucharest on Thursday, on which occasion he will meet both President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta. read more...

All people who are guilty of corruption deeds, no matter what party they are members of, must be sent to prison, Premier Victor Ponta told the Antena 3 TV station. read more...

Romania, on Sunday, March 31, switches to the official daylight saving time (DST), Eastern European Time, so 3,00 hours am becomes 4,00 hours am. read more...

Pope Benedict the 16th has announced his resignation starting with February 28th. Pope Benedict 16th says that he no longer has the "strength" needed to lead the Church due to his age (86 years). read more...