Romanian News

G8 wants Greece to stay in eurozone (21-05-2012)

The group says “our imperative is to promote growth and jobs”. President Barack Obama and fellow leaders at the Group of Eight meeting he hosted Saturday details...


NATO summit opens against backdrop of protests, foiled terror plot (21-05-2012)

Protesters set up media center, three charged in domestic terror plot. The road map out of the war in Afghanistan was expected to be drawn up by details...

Earthquake kills at least six in Italy (21-05-2012)

An earthquake in northern Italy has killed at least six people according to Italian press agency ANSA.  The 6.0-magnitude quake struck in the middle of the details...


EBRD: Romania, will be able to withstand the new crisis (21-05-2012)

There are fears that Greek banks present in the region will not be able to finance their subsidiaries and some analysts have even expressed worries about details...

Nomination of the prosecutor general, anti-corruption chief sparks row (21-05-2012)

PM wants prosecutor general and DNA head to be again appointed by the Magistrates alone without any political interference. Macovei, who introduced the political appointments, slams the proposal details...

Gitenstein: Contracts with Chevron might expire due to moratorium on shale gas extraction (21-05-2012)

The US ambassador says Romanians will have to decide whether they want to pay for natural gas a price five times higher than the Americans pay. details...

Ponta: President opposed repaying part of the illegal tax to pensioners (21-05-2012)

The premier criticises the former government, starting with Emil Boc, whom he described as “the humblest executant of Traian Basescu’s orders.” The issues between PM Victor details...

Basescu claims his domination in foreign policy in front of Romanian diaspora (21-05-2012)

The head of state said former ministers ‘were not any better’ than the current ones. Ahead of the NATO Summit, at a meeting with representatives of details...

Abundant rainfalls wreak havoc throughout the country (21-05-2012)

A girl was killed by a flash flood in Prahova. Several neighborhoods were flooded in Constanta. Thunderstorms and hailstone caused incidents in Bucharest and in 19 details...

Hundreds of thousands of visitors take advantage of Night of Museums (21-05-2012)

100,000 visitors in Bucharest, Antipa Museum – the night’s star. Bucharesters took full advantage of the Long Night Of Museum, with tens of thousands of visitors details...