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Romania has to increase its internal savings as soon as possible, senior economist of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Valentin Lazea told a symposium on Wednesday at the headquarters of the BNR in Bucharest.Lazea said that a combination of three grou ...

The Romanian Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Association (ARCA) will launch in October from a Black Sea platform the country's first space rocket dubbed Helen, in what is the final rehearsal for a 30 million dollar astronautic contest for landing a pri ...

Ship manoeuvres in the Black Sea Port of Constanta South - Agigea have been suspended on Monday because of bad weather.According to head of the Port Authority, Alexandru Mezei, manoeuvres were suspended at 10.30 a.m. because of the strong wind that exce ...

The standing bureaus of the Senate and the Deputies' Chamber decided on Monday the prime minister would address Parliament on Sept. 15 in order to take responsibility on three pieces of legislation relating to the national education, the new unitary ...

Romanian tennis player Agnes Szatmari won the doubles event of the tournament in Katowice, Poland, with total prizes worth 25,000 dollars, while in the singles event, she was beaten in the semifinals.In the final, Szatmari and Polish Karolina Kosinska, ...

The inhabitants of Covasna resort (north-west of Bucharest) prepared on Friday afternoon a record long ice cream roll, of 111 metres and weighing almost 250 kg.The vanilla and chocolate ice cream was placed on a long row of tables in the center of Covas ...

President Traian Basescu on Sunday appealed to the parties of the ruling coalition, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democrat Liberal Party (PD-L) to show responsibility and wisdom, by putting the real problems of the citizens ahead of the prep ...

The Romanian Ambassador at Berlin Lazar Comanescu on Tuesday told Agerpres about his discussions with European Central Bank (ECB) officials, over the preparation of the country to switch to euro.'I went to the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt accompani ...

The Romanian Foreign Affairs minister Cristian Diaconescu decided to participate on Thursday in the works of the Netherlands' legislative, following a telephone discussion he had on Wednesday night with his counterpart, thus giving a second thought ...

PM Emil Boc signed on Thursday, the letter of intent concerning the assuming of responsibility, in front of Parliament, for the three laws, with the document sent to the two chambers of the Legislative.Spokesman for the Government Ioana Muntean confirme ...

The Social-Democratic Party, PSD, does not want the start of a political crisis, which will deepen the economic situation, by quitting the ruling, said, on Thursday, president of PSD Mircea Geoana, at the end of a meeting of the National Executive Commi ...

The Romanian Ambassador at Berlin Lazar Comanescu on Tuesday told Agerpres about his discussions with European Central Bank (ECB) officials, over the preparation of the country to switch to euro.'I went to the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt accompani ...

Net investments in the Romanian economy dropped by 16.7 percent in the first half of this year, compared with the same interval a year before, and by 29 percent against the second quarter in 2008, according to a release of the National Institute of Stat ...

Romania aims to get a substantial portfolio, agriculture, that has a special relevance, particularly when speaking of the European agricultural policy, which is at a difficult time, President Traian Basescu told the participants in the annual meeting of ...

France has become our most solid partner within the EU, President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday on welcoming the participants in the annual meeting of the Romanian diplomacy at the presidential Cotroceni Palace.'France has become our most solid p ...

Romania wants a partnership on equal footing with the Russian Federation, President Traian Basescu told a reception on Wednesday at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace of the attendees of the ongoing annual summit of Romanian diplomats. He added that ther ...

The Romanian gross domestic product (GDP) put at 120.4 billion lei in current prices in the second quarter of this year has recorded 1.1 percent drop from the prior quarter, show figures that the National Institute of Statistics released to Agerpres on ...

Prime Minister Emil Boc announced after a meeting with the main unions representatives to discuss the draft unitary salary law on Tuesday that the government had included the unions' proposal to cut the salary hierarchy scale from 1:15 to 1:12 in th ...

The Orient Express, the most famous luxury train in Europe arrives in Bucharest's Gara de Nord (North Railway station), on Monday, after it passes through Sinaia railway station (90 km north of Bucharest).It currently travels from Paris to Istanbul. ...

The Bucharest Court judges and prosecutors adjourned the cases on Monday, thus beginning a protest over the provisions set in the unitary salary law for the public sector staff.The judges at the civil and administrative litigation court sections adjourn ...