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...

Electricity prices are going to be liberalized by 2013 for industrial consumers and by 2017 for household consumers, according to a draft law adopted by the Government on Friday and remitted to Parliament for analysis and approval. read more...

The conclusion according to which Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu wishes a meeting of the European Council where to discuss Romania’s accession to the Schengen Space is incorrect, the Romanian Government Press Office informs in a press release. read more...

The public stock exchange bid for the package of the Romanian Transelectrica electricity supplier has all possibly successful spices, Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) president Lucian Anghel said on Wednesday when I began the bid to last over March 14-27. read more...

As many as 40,000 foreign tourists are expected in Bucharest, on May 9th, to watch the UEFA Europa League final, organized on the National Arena and tens of millions of people worldwide will watch the match on television, announced Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu. read more...

Population’s resuming consumption is needed for economic growth, and the salary rise in the public sector will have a direct, positive effect on the consumption, Government’s spokesman Dan Suciu said, after PM Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu met with BNR governor Mugur Isarescu. read more...

President Traian Basescu told Parliament that solutions should be found for the public servants’ salaries to be made complete again about June 1. read more...

he Romanian market reported a deficit of 30 million eggs in January and February of this year on a year-on-year basis, the cause lying almost entirely with the reduced imports, according to information provided by the Poultry Farmers Association in Romania (UCPR). read more...

The bonds issued by the Public Finance Ministry (MFP) on February 28 on the US market have been mainly bought by US and UK investors, informs a release remitted on Wednesday. read more...

As a first, Romania has nudged up the rankings of Top 10 most attractive countries in the world for investments in wind power, according to the latest Country Attractiveness Indices report released by Ernst & Young. 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...

Premier Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu on Friday asked the minister and the other governmental officials with capacities in the tax evasion combat to increase the collection ratio of taxes to the state budget by 1.5 percent of the GDP in 60 days. read more...

Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Romania Jeffrey Franks will pay a two-day visit to Bucharest on Feb. 21-22, answering the invitation extended by Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu. read more...

Oil prices rose yesterday, on the London and New York Exchanges, after a press agency of Iran announced that the country cancelled its oil deliveries to six EU member states, and the US Department of Energy said that American oil inventories fell. 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...

The payment of the car tax for the motorcars registered before January 2007 was postponed by one year in order to enable car owners to sell their cars, but also because they did not understand enough the way to apply it, according to the information supplied by the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MMP). read more...