President Traian Basescu signed on Thursday the decree promulgating the law modifying and completing the labour code, a press release of the presidency informs. On March 8th, the government took responsibility in the Parliament for the new labor code. Moreover, the motion of censure submitted by the opposition was rejected in the Parliament and the normative act was considered adopted. read more...

Anti drug police forces confiscated, on Thursday 150 kg of cocaine in the Port of Constanta, hidden in a timber transport from South America, judicial sources declared for the Romanian news agency Mediafax. read more...

Foreign students will not benefit from the fee exemption when visiting the Palace of Parliament and they will pay 50% of the ticket price for a tour of the building, a decision of the Chamber of Deputies reads, quoted by news agency Agerpres. read more...

President Basescu informed the Parliament, in two official letters, regarding Romania’s participation in Libya and in NATO’s mission to train Afghan police forces, letters that will be read in front of the Parliament, Romanian news agency Mediafax reports. read more...

Marius Petcu practically took the membership fees paid by union members when he paid the contract attributed to Scrieciu’s company, which unsettles the public opinion, anti graft prosecutors involved in the case in which union leader Marius Petcu is indicted for bribe taking. read more...

PSD leader Victor Ponta declared on Monday afternoon that he is still waiting Severin’s resignation, implying that if this will not happen, his exclusion is almost sure. I have never done anything that would use my statute of MEP to obtain extra revenues and nobody proved this, Severin said. read more...

A 2007 cable from the US Embassy to Kiev, leaked by Wikileaks and quoted by HotNews.ro on Sunday, notes that Ukrainians were speaking of a theory according to which politicians in the Republic of Moldova promoting a pro-European policy were silently supporting Moldova's entry in the EU through Romania, with a possibility that Moldova on the right bank of Dniester eventually join Romania, while the left bank (Transdniester) turn to Ukraine. read more...

This Saturday, Romanians will advance their clocks by one hour so that 3 AM will become 4AM. Romania’s railway company CFR announced that the change will not affect the schedule of trains. read more...

The Teleorman Court in southern Romania on Friday upheld several requests to cancel the recalculation of military staff pensions, Costel Galca, lawyer of the Union of Laid off Military Staff, told Mediafax. read more...

Marius Petcu, CNSRL Fratia union leader was caught taking 40,000 euro bribe, Romanian public television TVR reports in a news on the institution’s website. According to the quoted source, the 40,000 euro is a first installment of a total sum higher than 200,000 euro. Petcu is currently being heard by anti graft prosecutors. read more...

The modifications brought to the labour code, for which the government took responsibility in the Parliament are constitutional, the Constitutional Court decided on Wednesday, quoted by Romanian news agency Agerpres. read more...

Most Romanians do not agree with the military intervention in Libya according to a survey conducted by the Romanian Evaluation and Strategy Institute, IRES. 68% of those questioned do not agree with a military intervention in Libya, 28% approve it and 4% did not respond. read more...

The wealth of the Romanian MEP Adrian Severin is verified by the National Integrity Agency, Romanian news agency Mediafax reads adding that representatives of the institution refused to offer any details about their investigation. read more...

Anti graft prosecutors decided on Monday to start an investigation on the possible corruption case involving Romanian MEP Adrian Severin, following the lobby scandal revealed by the British daily Sunday Times involving the Romanian MEP, anti graft prosecutors’ spokesperson Livia Saplacan announced. read more...

Three European Parliamentarians, including Romanian Adrian Severin were willing to “sell their services” for huge sums of money for some undercover journalists from British daily Sunday Times pretending to be involved in some lobby actions, AFP informs. read more...

Romania’s Prime Minister Emil Boc decided, at the proposal of the Foreign Affairs ministry to set up a rapid reaction unit at the National Committee for the control of nuclear activities, CNCAN, that will supply the government information about the evolution of the situation in Romania, PM’s spokesperson Ioana Muntean declared. read more...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc called on Interior Minister Traian Igas and Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi to put forward a normative act granting humanitarian aid to quake- and tsunami-shattered Japan, people close to the matter told Mediafax Thursday. read more...

The Social Liberal Union, the alliance of the opposition submitted a contestation at the Constitutional Court on the government’s decision to take responsibility for the new labour code and for some articles in the normative act, Social Democratic Party spokesperson Radu Moldovan declared for news agency Agerpres. read more...

Romania's Government on Wednesday survived a motion of no-confidence filed by the opposition, which failed to acquire the necessary votes, meaning the amended Labor Code is closer to becoming law. read more...

The Romanian Parliament on Wednesday started debates on the no-confidence motion submitted by the opposition over the country’s new Labor Code for which the Government sought lawmakers’ vote on confidence last week. read more...