Romanian democrat liberal senator Dumitru Florian Staicu drafted a normative act whereby food products will have a green, orange or red dot on their wrappers or labels, according to the type and amount of food additives they contain. read more...

Romanian meteorologists expect warm weather over Christmas with temperatures of up to 17 degrees Celsius on Saturday. read more...

The solution to the problems we have is not the one we have seen today in Parliament, said Premier Emil Boc on Thursday, in the Parliament Palace, referring to the incident in the plenary meeting hall when a man threw himself from the balcony. read more...

The life of the man who has thrown himself from a balcony of the Romanian Parliament is not in danger, the general manager of the University Hospital Catalin Carstoiu told the media. read more...

Romania's National Hydrology and Water Management Institute issued Thursday a code yellow flood advisory for the rivers in the northwest, valid from Friday to Monday. read more...

The Romanian Social Democratic Party on Thursday challenged the unitary wage law at the Constitutional Court, after the opposition’s no-confidence motion over the normative act was rejected in Parliament. read more...

The Romanian Government survived a fourth no-confidence motion this year as none of the MPs cast a vote on the motion Thursday after a man working for the public television jumped from one of the room’s balconies and injured himself. read more...

The Romanian Parliament has resumed the plenary meeting on the motion of no-confidence submitted by the opposition over the unitary wage law for the public sector, which the Government sought to adopt through a confidence vote last week. read more...

A man threw himself from a balcony in Romania's Parliament on Thursday morning, while PM Emil Boc was holding a speech before MPs. According to preliminary information, the man as a technician working for the public television TVR. He was wearing a shirt bearing the slogan "You killed our future". Intervention teams provided first aid and removed him from the hall. read more...

The Senate validated on Wednesday, in a meeting, the list of prosecutors and judges elected to be part of the new Superior Council of Magistracy. The list was validated with 64 votes for and 60 against after several tense discussions between the governing coalition members and the opposition. read more...

After launching the first Romanian space rocket, the Romanian Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics, ARCA,announced that it will start tests with the first Romanian supersonic plane in mid 2011. ARCA hopes that by 2015 it will send a robot on the moon's surface as part of the Google Luna X Prize contest where 20 organizations attend. read more...

The Christmas budget of almost half of Romanians is below 400 lei (EUR1=RON4.2901), according to a survey conducted by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy (IRES). read more...

Most Romanians buying Christmas presents will get sweets, clothing and accessories and prefer to get them on sale, according to a survey released Tuesday by market research company GfK Romania. read more...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Monday invited union representatives to talks in an attempt to unblock social dialog after unionists decided not to attend the meetings of social dialog committees, displeased that the Government discarded their opinion regarding the new Labor Code. read more...

Romanian former tennis player Ilie Nastase was fined 600 lei (EUR1=RON4.2897) Monday by the country’s National Council Against Discrimination for his saying French president Nicolas Sarkozy was right to deport Roma people. read more...

The rejection of the motion of censure on the law on budgetary salaries in 2011 is a good news for employees in the public sector who will benefit from a 15% increase in salaries and will not receive the poisoned gift of the Opposition, who attempted to block the measure out of populist measures, PM Boc declared after the vote in the Parliament. read more...

PDL Constanta Senator, Mircea Banias declared on Monday that he is living an absurd story through his involvement, by anti graft prosecutors in the fiscal evasion file at UCM Resita. read more...

The Romanian opposition’s no-confidence motion over the wage law for 2011, which was debated in Parliament Monday, was rejected as the motion got only 190 votes in favor and one vote against and needed 236 votes to pass. read more...

The Romanian opposition Social Democratic Party will challenge the wage law for 2011 at the Constitutional Court if the opposition’s no-confidence motion over the normative act is rejected by lawmakers, party leader Victor Ponta said Monday. read more...

The aim of the motion is, in essence, to block the recovery of te 15% of the 25% salary cut from salaries, PM Boc said in the Parliament. read more...