Romanian capital city Bucharest hosts on Wednesday the final of the Europa League football cup at the National Arena, a match between the Spanish teams Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, kick-off at 9:45 PM (8:45 PM in Spain and 7:45 GMT). read more...

The ministers nominated by Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta are to be examined on Monday, starting with 10:00 local time, during the hearings scheduled by the specialized committees, after which, at 16:00 local time, the joint plenum of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies is to vote on the Government’s investiture. read more...

Parliament is debating and voting on Friday, in its plenum, the censure motion entitled “Stop the Blackmail-Prone Government! Never This Way!”, initiated by the Opposition, the first such confrontation Ungureanu Cabinet is facing since installation. read more...

The leader of the parliamentary group of the PSD in the Chamber of Deputies, Mircea Dusa, has filed, on behalf of the Opposition, the censure motion called “Stop the Government that can be blackmailed. Not so, never!”, at the cabinet of the Speaker of this legislative forum. read more...

President Traian Basescu said that the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) was “well anchored” in the battle against tax evasion, while adding that, although the atmosphere created gives the feeling that a high level of corruption was reached, Romania is far from it. read more...

Romania’s General Prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi and the US Ambassador to Romanian Mark Gitenstein and Delaware’s Attorney General Joseph R. (Beau) Biden III had a working meeting, and approached topics such as the judicial cooperation and the experience exchanges between the Romanian and the US judiciary officials. read more...

The draft lustration law, which abridges certain rights of the people who were part of the late communist apparatus, on Tuesday received a final vote in the Chamber of Deputies, the decision-making chamber in this case. read more...

Six persons were killed by the big freeze in Romania in the last 24 hours, with the death toll raising to 74 because of severe weather conditions, the Health Ministry (MS) reported. read more...

Over 3,500 schools nationwide are affected by the bad weather, according to collected data centralized by the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (MECTS). read more...

Detachments of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) were deployed in the past 24 hours on 22 emergency support missions in the areas affected by snow and blizzard in southern Moldova, Muntenia and Dobrogea; 1,580 troops with 88 land, water and air craft participated in such actions that are due to continue, informs a MApN. read more...

Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu announced that he is going, on Saturday, to the counties of Buzau and Vrancea (northeast of Bucharest), in the area affected by extreme weather conditions in the last period. read more...

President Traian Basescu on Tuesday sent a message on the Day of the Romanian Principalities’ Union emphasizing the fact that Romania, especially now, needed our loyalty, our efficiency and responsibility. read more...

About 500-600 Bucharesters were involved in the protest in the University Square on Friday evening, for the eighth day in a row. On the esplanade outside the National Theatre there are about 450-500 protesters, many of them are pensioners, elderly people or teachers, members of the trade union federations in education, and on the other side of the Square, in front of the well outside the Architecture Faculty, there are another 100 protesters, most of them being quite young. read more...

Chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Crin Antonescu on Thursday, from the stage of the rally organized by the opposition Social Liberal Union (USL), told President Traian Basescu, Premier Emil Boc and the Democrat Liberals to give up power and made it clear that the opposition would make no compromise. read more...

Thousands of people gathered on Thursday afternoon in the surroundings of the Bucharest Arc of Triumph for the rally organized by the opposition’s Social Liberal Union (USL). read more...

The state reforms will represent a priority in 2012 too, President Traian Basescu said at the annual meeting with the ambassadors accredited to Romania, adding that he will be an active partner of the Government in the process aimed ad adopting the measures stipulated in the agreements with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank or the European Union. read more...

About 2,000 people protest in Bucharest and another 20 counties, Gendarmerie spokesman Florin Hulea on Wednesday. read more...

Premier Emil Boc said on Wednesday that, during the consultations at the Parliament Palace, he suggested setting up the council of economic dialogue between the power and the opposition, which should fundamentally aim at maintaining and creating jobs. read more...

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said, on Monday, in an exclusive interview given to AFP, that the political elite of the country “did not dialogue enough” with the citizens, while protests continue for a few days in Romania. read more...

Lucian Bute and Cristi Chivu were the best paid Romanian athletes in 2011. Admired, criticized, cheered, or cursed at, athletes are some of the most envied people on the planet for two reasons: their fame and their income. Even if we are in full economic recession, wages remain high in professional sports. read more...