News in Actuality
Six people were injured Monday morning in Brasov county, central Romania, where a train hit a bus at a railway crossing. read more...
Romania's Government will spend around 1.2 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2571), without VAT, to carry out a national survey on around 15,000 people, who will be given RON15 each and asked for their opinion on the Executive's policies, the effects of the crisis and their standard of living. read more...
Only 4.2% of Romanians with disabilities have a job, which places Romania on the last position in the European Union, according to a report presented Friday. read more...
So far, the Proprietatea Fund has brought around 20 lawsuits against Nuclearelectrica, Hidroelectrica and the Craiova Energy Complex. read more...
Romania will launch this spring a new strategy for the integration of the Roma minority to be applied until 2015, Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday in Strasbourg. read more...
Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim and Vadim Repin are among the artists who confirmed they participation at the George Enescu festival in 2011, organizers declared on Wednesday. read more...
A society which, during 40 years of communism, learnt to expect handouts from the state, is difficult to reform. read more...
Romania will increase its participation to foreign military operations by 183 troops in 2011, bringing its maximum foreign force to 3,427 troops, as per a Tuesday decision of the Supreme Defense Council. read more...
Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said Tuesday that Romania may not stop importing pork from Germany, which Romanian producers suspect may be exporting meat contaminated with dioxin, a carcinogen. read more...
Over 7,000 Romanians protest Tuesday in Mioveni, southern Romania, over changes to the country’s labor code and collective work contracts, as well as over high fuel prices. read more...
Romania’s Constitutional Court in Tuesday upheld complaints by democrat liberal senators on the validation of 11 members of the High Council of Magistrates, appointed for six-year terms. read more...
Members of Romania’s ruling coalition decided Monday the Government will back changes to the local election law to allow for mayors to be elected in a single round of elections, Culture Minister Kelemen Hunor told Mediafax. read more...
Romanian opposition Liberal Party president Crin Antonescu on Monday told a joint news conference with social democrat leader Victor Ponta that his party’s Standing Delegation will vote on forming a political alliance with the Social Democratic Party on February 5. read more...
About one thousand Romanian military retirees gathered on Monday in the George Enescu square in capital Bucharest, protesting over the recalculation of military pensions, and left in a protest march to the Military Academy. read more...
Romanian President Traian Basescu was met with boos Monday morning in Iasi, eastern Romania, where he is attending celebrations of the 152-year anniversary of the Unification of Romanian principalities. read more...
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Sunday evening the Supreme Court’s ruling on military pensions must be observed and the recalculation process is suspended. read more...
Former minister and presidential advisor in the early '90s and banker for 14 years, Negriţoiu says his generation is to blame for Romania's recurring slippages. read more...
Romanian meteorologists issued a code yellow snow and blizzard advisory for Bucharest and 24 counties in the southern part of the country, valid from Saturday 12 p.m. until Sunday – 11 p.m. read more...
Meteorologists expect snow and gusty wind throughout Romania Friday evening through Sunday evening, particularly in the southern half of the country. read more...
Romania is to become the 19th member of the European Space Agency (ESA), as an agreement of accession to the ESA Convention was signed Thursday, in the presence of Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi and cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu. read more...
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