Regionalization will not be made along ethnic lines, but on the basis of development, economic criteria, the main objective of the administrative organization, respectively the establishment of administrative regions, being to reduce development disparities, said Deputy PM Liviu Dragnea, also Minister for development. read more...

The Parliament will gather in an extraordinary session on January 21 to adopt the draft budget and other draft resolutions of the Government to be adopted right away, said PM Victor Ponta on Friday. read more...

Film director Sergiu Nicolaescu died at the age of 82 on Thursday at the Elias Hospital in Bucharest, TV news channel report. read more...

The 2013 budget of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) will also include the necessary amounts for the acquisition of multirole fighter aircraft, Defence Minister Mircea Dusa told a press conference on Wednesday. read more...

Social Democrat Valeriu Zgonea on Thursday was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 345 to 38. read more...

Romania marks, on Wednesday, November 21, ten years since it officially received the invitation to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). read more...

Romania’s population decreased in July 2012 by 2,206 persons from June, while the June’s decline from the previous month was 3,984, the National Statistics Institute (INS) announced. read more...

President Traian Basescu returned on Tuesday after 10:30 am to the Cotroceni Palace after 52 days of suspension from office, resuming the term he won in the 2009 presidential elections. read more...

Delegate Minister for Administration Radu Stroe on Sunday said that all data requested from the local administrations were received and that there were major amendments in the permanent electors’ lists that could reverse the situation at the Constitutional Court. read more...

Romania was ranking No. 26 in the 2012 London Games medal table late on Saturday, after Day 15 of the competition. read more...

Suspended President Traian Basescu on Friday said that, to him, coming back to Cotroceni was no longer the main stake, as it was more important for the institutions to find if any frauds took place during the referendum. read more...

Lucian Isar has resigned as Romanian minister-delegate for the Business Environment and will be replaced with Mihai Voicu, vice-president of the Liberal Party. read more...

The Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday completed the interactive map of the polling stations set up abroad, an application developed by the ministry on Google Maps platform aimed at easing the access of the Romanians outside the country to the ballot box, the ministry said in a release to Agerpres. read more...

During the traditional Olympics flag-rising ceremony, in the accords of Romania’s national anthem, Romania’s flag has been unfurled in the International Area of the Olympic Village in London, on Wednesday, in the presence of the Romanian delegation made up of sportspeople and officials of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (COSR). read more...

President Traian Basescu said that it was the first time that he had been prevented from completing his constitutional tasks. read more...

The 8th edition of the Museum Night event will be held on May 19 at nearly 3,000 European museums, almost 100 of which are in Romania. The National Network of Romania’s Museums (RNMR), the official partner of the event at international level, will coordinate the activities to be conducted by the Romanian museums. read more...

King Mihai on Friday bestowed decorations on politicians, diplomats and literati at the Elisabeta Palace to mark May 10, the King’s Day. Among the recipients was former leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) MP group in the Chamber of Deputies Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who came to the event accompanied by his nonagenarian mother, and MP Theodor Paleologu, who was accompanied by his teen son Mihai. read more...

The campaign for election of mayors, presidents of county councils, local and county councils is kicking off on Friday and is going to end on June 9, at 7:00 hrs, local time. read more...

Atletico Madrid won the Europa League final after beating Athletic Bilbao, 3-0 (2-0), on Wednesday night on the National Arena in Bucharest. read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced, on Tuesday evening, that journalist Andrei Zaharescu will be the new Government’s spokesman. read more...