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Romania's men's sabre team comprising Rares Dumitrescu, Florin Zalomir, Alexandru Sireteanu and Tiberiu Dolniceanu on Sunday won an international fencing tournament organised in Budapest that counts for the team fencing World Cup, as they defeat ...

Navigation of sea-going ships has been closed on the Sulina channel and sandbar because of bad weather and water conditions.The decision was taken by the Lower Danube Administration of Giurgiu. Tulcea Shipmaster's Office reports that circulation wil ...

National Railway Company CFR SA on Monday announced train delays of up to 60 minutes because of heavy snowfalls and blizzards, although there are no closed lines yet.Longer delays, of up to 250 minutes, were registered, in arrivals, by the international ...

Trains reach their destinations up to 400 minutes late, because of the snow storm, informs the Ministry of Transports.Following the orange code warning for abundant snowfalls and snowstorm in several counties in southern and eastern Romania, the city of ...

More than 44,000 public administration employees cease work for two hours on Tuesday in a warning strike.The National Federation of Unions in Administration (FNSA) is organizing this warning strike starting 8.30 a.m. through 10.30 a.m.The municipal town ...

Minister of Public Finance Sebastian Vladescu stated on Tuesday, referring to the protests organized in front of the ministry he heads, that no salary raises are possible.'There are people picketing the ministry for a long time and who wish the re-i ...

Fencer Loredana Iordachioiu won the women's epee contest within 'Le Duel des lions' international fencing competition, held in Luxembourg.Oana Puiu ranked third, the same as Dorian Parvan, in the similar men's contest.Fencers from Craiov ...

Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest Ioan Robu will go to Rome, on Feb. 8-13, when he is to extend to Pope Benedict XVI the invitation to visit Romania.Archbishop Robu showed optimism about incumbent Sovereign Pontiff's possible visit to Bucharest ...

Romania will attract 4.3 billion euros in European funds in 2010, almost double compared to 2009, when the country only managed to attract 2.6 billion euros, Prime Minister Emil Boc on Wednesday said while paying an working visit to central Romanian cit ...

Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi on Thursday will participate in the International Conference on Afghanistan to be held in London and co-chaired by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and UN Secretary ...

Agerpres special correspondent Irinela Mica reports: President Traian Basescu and Mihai Ghimpu, Interim President of the Republic of Moldova, laid each a wreath at the Romanian Cemetery of Honour at Tiganca, Cahul County (south-western Republic of Moldo ...

Vice-president of the Cartel Alfa National Trade Union Confederation Peter Dandea considers that the retirement age should be linked to life expectancy.'It is cynical of the rulers to ask for the rise in the retirement age for men to 65, when life e ...

The Boc Cabinet is expected today to issue an emergency ordinance concerning the establishment, organisation and functioning of a National Citizenship Authority, according to the Government's agenda released by the Government's Press Office.The ...

International Amateur Rugby Federation (FIRA-AER) announced that Romania would host one of the six tournaments of the European Rugby Sevens Cup, the new Olympic sport. The event brings together 30 European teams, but without UK, Wales, Scotland or Irela ...

Prime Minister Emil Boc said in the end of the government sitting, on Friday that he asked the Labour Ministry to draw up the subsequent normative acts for the programme on the employment of the jobless, which is to get operational on the European Socia ...

The levying of a tax on food, called by other authorities the fast food tax, could lead to a food prices rise of 30-40 percent, announced on Monday Sorin Minea, president of Romalimenta employer union, within a public debate on the topic of the applicat ...

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) has often managed to do what the governments did not succeed, President Traian Basescu told a Tuesday ceremony in which he awarded high national distinctions to BNR governor Mugur Isarescu and the BNR Administration Bo ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will make available this February both the third and the fourth disbursements of the IMF-supported program for Romania, IMF Mission Chief for Romania Jeffrey Franks told a news conference on Wednesday that dissemina ...

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Alumnia congratulated the Romanian authorities for their efforts and voiced hope that the European Commission would soon give Romania the second tranche, worth one billion euros, of the5 bi ...

Romania will never sign a treaty meant to redefine the border with the Republic of Moldova, said President Traian Basescu in Chisinau on Wednesday.'Romania will never sign a treaty that should redefine the border between Romania and the Republic of ...