Romanian senators on Wednesday rejected 51 to 27 votes and five abstentions a bill that would have renamed the country’s Roma minority internally as “gypsies”. read more...

National Authority for Customs chief Radu Marginean, indicted by anti-graft prosecutors in Bihor in the case involving Halmeu Customs and will be investigated in liberty for bribe taking, Realitatea TV informs. read more...

45 of the customs and police officers picked up after the massive raids on Tuesday morning at Stamora Moravita and Naidas customs were detained for 24 hours. read more...

Romania’s Foreign Affairs ministry informs Romanian citizens wishing to travel to Greece that in the upcoming period new protests will be organized that will block main roads in Greece and customs points to and from Bulgaria. read more...

A series of major raids took place at five customs points in Romania starting Tuesday Morning. The points have been monitored for several months as investigators tried to collect enough evidence to prove a series of crimes. Customs checks were halted on both sides of the border. read more...

The Romanian anticorruption prosecutors’ request to have the immunity of democrat liberal MP Dan Pasat didn't garner sufficient votes for approval from the Chamber of Deputies Tuesday. read more...

The widows of the five miners killed in a methane explosion Saturday at the coal mine in Uricani, southern Romania, will get jobs at the Natioanl Coal Company CNH, said Labor Minister Ioan Botis. read more...

The five miners missing in the Saturday afternoon explosion at the Uricani mine, southern Romania, have been killed in the blast, said local mayor Danut Buhaescu. read more...

Five or six miners are trapped underground following a blast Saturday afternoon at the Uricani coal mine in southern Romania, mine officials said. read more...

Romania’s three opposition parliamentary parties on Saturday signed a protocol forming the Social-Liberal Union, a political alliance of liberals, conservatives and social democrats. read more...

Romania’s opposition Liberal Party leader Crin Antonescu said Saturday polls ordered by the party show 62% to 68% of Romanians would vote for the Social-Liberal Union, the alliance of liberals, social democrats and conservatives. read more...

A suspicious piece of luggage found near Israel’s embassy in Bucharest had authorities on alert Friday morning but it turned out to be just a scare. read more...

The committee for legal matters in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies approved Wednesday anticorruption prosecutors’ request to have democrat liberal MP Dan Pasat placed under preventive arrest on corruption charges. read more...

The sheer frequency of legislative modifications in Romania, which exasperates both citizens and the business world, does not only stem from the need to change legislation after the revolution of 1989, but also from the ease with which the governments that succeeded each other during the last 20 years adopted emergency ordinances. read more...

The Romanian Senate’s committees for human rights and equal opportunities endorsed Wednesday a bill initiated by democrat liberal lawmaker Silviu Prigoana proposing to replace the term “Roma” with “gypsy”. read more...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Monday evening investments, revising the Constitution and improved labor legislation are the Government’s priorities this year, adding austerity measures are expected to yield results in 2011. read more...

The Romanian Gendarmerie has announced its intention to purchase "riot repression equipment," including protective helmets, pepper spray, submachine guns, rifles, smoke grenades, tear gas grenades and others, for an estimated 42 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2549). read more...

The Department for the Relation with Parliament sent to the Parliament the government’s legislative priorities for the first ordinary session of 2011, considering that parliamentary works start on February 1st. read more...

The Romanian ruling Democratic Liberal Party’s delegates will convene on May 14 to elect the party’s new leaders, democrat liberal vice-president Gheorghe Flutur said Monday, after the meeting of the party’s standing bureau. read more...

A man died and three other people suffered burns after a gas tank exploded in an auto service shop in Otelu Rosu, Caras-Severin county, southwestern Romania, police said Monday. read more...