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The first round of presidential elections is set to take place on Nov. 22 and the runoff on December 6, the leaders of the ruling coalition decided on Monday.Vice-premier Dan Nica stressed at the end of the meeting of the ruling coalition's Central ...

The ruling coalition's leaders on Monday mandated minister of foreign affairs Cristian Diaconescu to identify the best ways for Romania's obtaining of an important portfolio of European commissioner, the option for Romania at present being agric ...

Romania has passed the last stage necessary to the accessing of the European funds, but there still is much and difficult work, said, on Friday, head of the Department for European Affairs, minister Vasile Puscas.'In point of the institutions, Roman ...

The trophy of the Mamaia 2009 National Music festival held between August 20 and 23 on the stage of the Summer Theatre in the Black Sea resort of Mamaia went to Olga Francescco , for the song 'Stay with me.'Alexa was Moldova's representative ...

Finnish team Jarkko Miettinen/Lukka Mikko, aboard a Mitsubishi Lancer, has won the Tara Barsei rally, the sixth leg in the Dunlop 2009 National Rally Championships.The current national champion clocked in the 82.3-km race at 53'14''1/10 (an ...

The policemen will get the money for salaries by the end of the year, the Ministry of Administration and Interior will rent houses for the policemen serving in other locations or on longer missions within the budget limits, but there will be no money fo ...

Tourism Minister Elena Udrea left the hearings of the parliamentary commission set up to inquire into her ministry's spending after nearly half an hour on Thursday, saying she would only come back after those who had taken part in the discussion lea ...

A giant mushroom weighing almost 2 kilograms was found by gendarmes in Maramures (northern Romania) during a rescue mission on the mountain.Spokesperson for the Maramures County Gendarmerie Inspectorate, lieutenant Mihaela Avram on Thursday said that th ...

Sales of new cars on Romanian market dropped in the first seven months to July by 56.1 percent as against the same period of the previous year and stood at 92,526 units, compared to 210,705 units in January-July 2008, according to statistics of the Car ...

President Traian Basescu has asked his brother to immediately drop his stake in a company involved in defence-related activities, the Presidential Administration announced on Friday, after the news media carried such reports about his brother Mircea Bas ...

President Traian Basescu on Friday backed the need to start building the checkpoint between Radauti Prut-Botosani (northeastern Romania) and Lipcani, the Republic of Moldova, arguing that Romania's interest to be linked to its neighbour is big.Bases ...

Mircea Basescu, who is the brother of Romanian President Traian Basescu on Friday in exclusivity told Agerpres he decided to give up all his rights as shareholder in a company operating in the military field.Mircea Basescu on Friday morning signed the p ...

The Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice (HCCJ) on Wednesday dismissed the appeals lodged by the Public Finances Ministry to the rulings of the Bucharest Court of Appeal that said the magistrates had won the case on being paid a 50 percent stres ...

 Romanian Ombudsman Ioan Muraru thinks that imposing 10-day unpaid leave to all the public sector staff can be legally mandatory only if it is established trough a law adopted by the Parliament or through a Government's Ordinance, reads the rel ...

Minister of Education, Research and Innovation Ecaterina Andronescu said on Tuesday, during a public debate on the projects aimed at the laws of Education, held at the Parliament Palace, that Education includes 20 percent of the Romanian society and tha ...

The minimis aid could be extended to pay the budget dues, given that the European Commission could approve a request by the Romanian authorities in this respect, Economy Minister Adriean Videanu has told a TV channel.'We want the minimis aid to be e ...

Pensions standing below the value of 1,500 lei will be exempted from taxes beginning, most probably, on January 1, 2010, Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection (MMFPS) Marian Sarbu on Monday told a TV channel.'Pensions which value stands b ...

The Democrat Liberal leaders are willing to negotiate with the Social Democrats on the anti-crisis measures, less the education laws, PD-L vice-president Gheorghe Flutur said before the meeting of the Central Coordinating Political Bureau on Monday.He s ...

Romania is currently spending approx. 9 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on wages in the public sector, that is more by 3 percent compared with other countries, Transport Minister Radu Berceanu told a TV channel.'Romania is currently spen ...

Centre for Prevention and Control of Transmissible Diseases found over Aug. 10-16, as many as 31 new cases of AH1N1 on Romania's territory, the Health Ministry announced in a press release sent to Agerpres.The health condition of the 31 patients is ...