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Last week, Bucharest received from the European Commission some 1.15 billion Euros to cover part of the budget deficit.

Police workers gathered on Friday in front of the government building to protest against austerity measures.

After more than a year in opposition, Vladimir Voronin’s Communists seem to fare better in electoral terms, in contrast with...

Many banks issued late notices for customers with loan contracts, the latter being thus left unable to obtain the required...

Bucharest is celebrating. The Romanian capital is now 551 old on paper.

The daily Evenimentul Zilei speculated on what happened behind the scenes of the release of buisnessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu.

According to all estimates, 2010 may turn out to be the 2nd year in a row that has seen a negative increase.

Unions also demand a nation-wide minimum salary of at least 750 lei (about 175 euros) and the return to the 2009 salaries.

Nabucco, in which Romania is also involved, provides for the transport of gas from the Middle East and Asia to Europe and is...

Borrowers complain about the short time that they have to fill in additional forms, and, in some cases, the fees that banks...

The thorn in Romania’s relationship with France, namely the Roma issue, has become a priority on the European agenda.

Business people believe that in addition to a cut in taxation, public investment is a sure, direct and immediate way of...

In full political deadlock, the ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova has missed its last chance to stabilize after the failure of a...

The first board meeting of the National Bank of Romania was held on September 5th 1880. 130 years on, its current governor...

Journalists are convinced the reasons behind the present reshuffle are political, and is not necessarily a move to boost the...

The top priority of Romania’s foreign policy is accession to the Schengen area on the established date, April 2011, according...

With the start of the new parliamentary session, the Social Democratic and Liberal opposition in Bucharest are preparing a...

The debates on the restructuring program have managed to postpone redundancies in the Romanian railway system until September...

,The National Statistics Institute has recently announced that in the second quarter of the year, Romania’s GDP registered a...

The Roma ask for the observance of their right to free movement in Europe according to the principle of equal rights for...

According to the Romanian National Bank, in late June, more than 4.5 million Romanians, that is almost 50% of the country’s...

The new legislative bill, which now has the go-ahead for promulgation by President Traian Băsescu, corresponds more...

The Roma leave places such as Romania and Bulgaria, which are poorly developed, in search of a better life in other EU...

The repair works at the Giulesti maternity ward and as well as the closing down of a similar intensive care unit in Bucharest...

The Romanian media is completely absorbed by the issue of the Roma of Romanian and Bulgarian origin being repatriated by the...

Burdened with needs and an increasing amount of funds, the state budget and the social insurance budget in Romania were...

Russia’s decision to declare a Romanian diplomat in Moscow persona non grata and expel him has triggered a symmetrical...

The tragedy that hit a maternity hospital in Bucharest, following an explosion in the intensive care unit that killed several...

President Sarkozy said that by autumn, half of the 300 improvised Gypsy camps must be dismantled.

After Shimon Peres visit, Romania and Israel will collaborate in areas such as the military, technology, economy, tourism and...

Romania has met the obligations undertaken through the stand-by agreement signed with the IMF, the European Commission and...

Scientists’ predictions that 2010 would be one of the warmest years in human history seem to be coming true, with the effects...

Seriously damaged by a Constitutional Court ruling which stripped it of its most important responsibilities, the National...

The Romanian government is bound to look for funds to rebuild the infrastructure and the destroyed houses.

The Constitutional Court in Chisinau decided on Tuesday that Vladimir Voronin, the leader of the Communists’ Party, will no...

As of Sunday, the Sucevita monastery, in the north, is on the list of over 900 sites of exceptional universal value from 148...

The romanians working and living abroad, in Western Europe, returned home to spend the holidays.

The slogan of the new country brand is "Explore Romania, the Carpathian Garden”.

A virtual cross-section of the Romanian economy, the assessment carried out these days by IMF experts in Bucharest has...

Sharing the Israeli people's grief, Romania’s President Traian Basescu sent a condolence letter to his Israeli counterpart,...

The publication of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, according to which Kosovo’s declaration of...

On Thursday, the results from the most recent opinion poll show that over 40% of Romanians say they will not vote, or say...

For the first time, in Sighisoara Medieval Festival, 13 chivalry orders are going to fight on the city streets.

The graves of former romanian comunist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena Ceausescu were exhumed.

Between November 2001 and April 2010, social workers and psychologists took more than a million and a half calls at the Child...

The report slams the new form of the law regarding the National Integrity Agency, a body created to verify the dignitaries’...

The Court’s decision came just one day before the European Commission report on justice reform in Romania.

24 people drowned and over 10.000 people were evacuated.

Mugur Isarescu said that Romania’s entire gold reserve would run out in a single year if it were used to cover the hole in...

Ensuring your house has become mandatory in Romania as of July 15th.

The opposition, the media and the taxpayers are all angry at the government in Bucharest.