Romanian President-elect Klaus Iohannis said on Friday that, in his opinion, a Constitution revision is necessary and he promised to be a president who will follow “the letter and the spirit” of the fundamental law. read more...

A helicopter has crashed on Friday near the town of Medias (north of Sibiu County, central Romania), sources in the county police say. read more...

Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu announced he would tender resignation at the Government’s meeting on Tuesday. read more...

Liberal head Klaus Iohannis dedicated his win in Sunday’s presidential elections to the Romanians and stressed Romania ‘has built up strength to get well’. read more...

The presidential candidate of the Social Democrat Party – National Union for Romania’s Progress – Conservative Party (PSD-UNPR-PC), Victor Ponta, has stated Sudnay evening that the parallel count of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) shows that the Liberal Klaus Iohannis has won the elections and has added that he will not resign the position of Prime Minister as nobody requested this and believes there is no need for such a thing. read more...

After the Transport Ministry has spent almost the entire year “buried” in red tape, and transport sector projects have been almost frozen, now good news are starting to appear near the end of the year. Let’s say better late than never. read more...

Romania must develop stronger and more liquid financial markets to support economic growth, World Bank experts said told a conference on capital markets, which was held in Bucharest. read more...

Fiscal prejudices of hundreds of millions of Euros have been identified by prosecutors, many of them confirmed by judges. But the recovery of these sums is an issue for the ministry of finance: in five years, ANAF has brought only 4 millions to the budget. What is the explanation? read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta says the 2015-2016 state budget aims at keeping the 16 percent flat tax and cutting the special constructions tax on energy infrastructure from 1.5 percent to 1 percent. read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta in Medias on Thursday, after having paid a visit to Transgaz and Romgaz, said that if the gas exploitation began in the Black Sea, by 2019, there should be enough gas for Romania and the Republic of Moldova. read more...

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep on Thursday qualified for the semifinals of the WTA Finals taking place in Singapore, after Serena Williams lost her first game in the match against Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, in the red Group of the competition. read more...

Pensions will rise by 5 percent as of January 2015 and disability benefits will also grow by 16 percent, Labor Minister Rovana Plumb told a conference on private pensions this Monday. read more...

Russian gas supplies to Romania this Monday were 9.2 percent below normal (and so where Sunday’s shipments) although initially Gazprom had announced a 10.6 percent cut for the day, representatives of the Energy Department told. read more...

here are 287,000 Romanian citizens who are living and working in Germany, thus contributing to the value added of Germany’s economy, and in this context, Romania and Germany will sign a memorandum of understanding on supporting the youth, the vulnerable groups and the elderly, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly, Rovana Plumb said on Thursday after meeting her German counterpart Andrea Nahles. read more...

Chinese multinational Huawei, one of the largest telecom-gear makers in the world, plans to invest some 100 million euros in its global services centre in Bucharest until 2018 and, furthermore, to employ another 300 people by the end of this year. read more...

Since no investor has emerged in recent years, Oltchim plans to expand its activities with new business lines such as growing plants or retail. read more...

Romania has a clear and very firm position, alongside the European Union and the United States of America of support for Ukraine, as the situation of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is building up instead of settling, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said during a visit to this eastern Romanian Danube River port city on Friday. read more...

The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has announced on Friday that in the first round of the presidential elections (November 2) 18,336,254 citizens have the right to vote; in the second round (November 16) the number is 18,334,071. read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, during a visit to this eastern Romanian Danube River port city on Friday urged the local mayors to legally and quickly spend the funds they have available. read more...

The volume of construction works dropped to six months by 10.2%, as gross series, taking into account the drops in capital repairs' works, by 18.4%, and in the maintenance and current repairs, by 12%, and as adjusted series after the number of working days and seasonality dropped by 9.4%, according to the National Institute of Statistics. read more...