Romania on Thursday received a reasoned opinion from the European Commission, the second stage of an infringement procedure over the country’s failure to transpose EU rules on waste management into national legislation. read more...

Romanian residents may not drive cars registered in other states for periods longer than 90 days, or for more than three months per year, says a draft act amending the law regarding traffic on public roads, up for debate on the Interior Ministry's website. read more...

Nokia’s plant in Jucu, Romania, will stay open until the end of the year and employees will continue to receive wages until the end of March 2012, employees were told Thursday after the Finnish cell-phone maker announced it was shutting down its Romanian operations. read more...

Romania will apply the car pollution tax currently in effect until 2013, Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely said Wednesday at a conference organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry. read more...

Carmaker Renault Romania recalls 4,164 Dacia cars and 740 Renault cars over likely valve problems with engines produced in Spain, said Automobile Dacia representatives. read more...

The Romanian Senate's committee for administration on Tuesday adopted a favorable report on the government ordinance eliminating state subsidies for household heating, although the vote was tied. read more...

The jobless rate in Romania has slightly increased to 4.83%, but it should not exceed 5% this year, Silviu Bian, president of the National Employment Agency (ANOFM), said Tuesday. read more...

The U.S.-Romanian agreement on the deployment of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system in Romania has been made public in Romania Friday. read more...

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday he takes responsibility, as head of state, for the country not joining the border-free Schengen area, as he takes responsibility for unsolved problems in the justice sector, although he does not have any authority over these matters. read more...

A decision on Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the border-free Schengen Area has been postponed Thursday, as the matter was not put to the vote at the meeting of the Justice and Home Affair Council (JHA) held in Brussels, European sources told Mediafax. read more...

Romanian Transport Minister Anca Boagiu and Belgian state secretary for Mobility Etienne Schouppe on Thursday signed a memorandum for cooperation in transport, concerning, among others, the modernization of Bucharest's Gara de Nord train station. read more...

The Netherlands on Thursday confirmed its opposition to the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen Area, according to AFP. read more...

The Romanian National Health Insurance House's budget has been raised by the Government by 150 million lei (EUR35 million) and another RON25 million has been allotted to the national healthcare program run by the Health Ministry. read more...

Romanian insurance companies and brokers will provide their prospective clients with additional information before signing them up for a life insurance policy, as of Wednesday, according to new rules issued by regulator CSA. read more...

Romania’s Government on Wednesday approved, through a decision, the “solidarity basket” program aimed to sell food products at a discount to pensioners, people close to the matter told Mediafax. read more...

The latest discussions held in Brussels before the meeting of the Justice and Home Affair Council (JHA) on Thursday confirmed that France and Germany will vote to allow Romania and Bulgaria to join the border-free Schengen area in two stages, people close to the talks told Mediafax Wednesday. read more...

Romania's Minister of European Affairs, Leonard Orban, said the difference between the funds Romania received from the EU between January 1, 2007 and June 30, 2011, and its contribution to the EU's budget is more than EUR4.9 billion. read more...

Romania’s Tourism and Regional Development Minister Elena Udrea said Wednesday she asked authorities to direct to the ministry at least EUR1 billion in EU funds other ministries failed to absorb. read more...

Romania’s two chambers of Parliament on Wednesday adopted a declaration on the country’s accession to the border-free Schengen area, which is still being denied by several EU states. read more...

Over 150 unionists affiliated to the "Carte Alfa" union federation and the National Union Bloc (BNS) on Wednesday protested at the headquarters of the Labor Ministry displeased that authorities have not yet regulated activity sectors. read more...