Arhiva

 President Traian Basescu, an independent candidate in the December 6 presidential run-off endorsed by the Democratic-Liberal Party (PD-L), told a news conference on Sunday at his campaign headquarters that he will never grant pardon or amnesty to ...

A near-surface earthquake struck Bulgaria on Monday morning, being felt in the Dobrogea region (southeastern Romania) too, at 7:48 a.m. In Constanta, the earthquake measured 4.4 degrees on the Richter scale.The earthquake occurred along the Sabla tecton ...

Priorities of Klaus Iohannis, the proposal of the newly established political alliance for the position of premier, are getting out of the political and economic crisis, followed by the administrative reform. These are the main issues to be approached a ...

The debate organized by the Institute of Public Politics (IPP) between the candidates for presidency Traian Basescu and Mircea Geoana will take place on Thursday at 7 p.m.' The meeting will last two hours and a half, it will approach a range of issu ...

As many as 82 new A/H1N1 new swine flu cases have been reported in Romania over the past 24 hours, bringing the total of cases to 3,194, according to the Health Ministry.Following the confirmation of the new A/H1N1 flu cases, classes were suspended at D ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not want Romanian politicians to simply adopt a budget, but wants this to be a credible budget as well, IMF representative in Romania and Bulgaria Tonny Lybek on Monday told Agerpres.'No specific date has b ...

President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Mircea Geoana, candidate of PSD+PC political Alliance, President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Crin Antonescu and Mayor of Sibiu municipality (center) Klaus Johannis held on Monday afternoon, at Parli ...

MEP Daciana Sarbu thinks it necessary to direct European attention to the 'increasingly worrying' situation of the Romanian community in Italy.A press release issued by the Social Democrat MEP, which was sent to Agerpres on Thursday, reads that ...

The World Records Academy (WRA) informed on Sunday, on its official site, of the homologation of the record set by the village of Pericei, Salaj County (western Romania), for the biggest monument to onion.The onion bulb is 4.5 metres tall, is made of gl ...

When you are ahead, your starting position is 'unquestionably' better, stated President Traian Basescu on Thursday, at the meeting of the National Steering College of the Democrat Liberal Party, reunited to discuss the strategy for the president ...

Eugen Ionescu and Emil Cioran have become members of the Romanian Academy, according to the decision of the Presidium of the prestigious forum of science and culture, announced on Thursday Romanian Academy vice-president Academician Marius Sala.The repu ...

President Traian Basescu on Thursday evening attended the release of a joint Romanian-Israeli post stamp issue celebrating the first Yiddish theatre in the world that opened in 1876 in Iasi, Romania, hosted by the Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, sayi ...

The consolidated budget execution over the first ten months of 2009 registered an estimated deficit of 25.5 billion lei, 5.1 percent of the GDP respectively, according to preliminary budget execution data published by the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP ...

The relation between the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL) is not invented after the presidential elections first round and, till Christmas, Romanians will have a government based on a stable majority, members of the Nat ...

The film 'Medal of Honor' directed by Calin Peter Netzer and written by Tudor Voican is the main winner of the 50th International Thessaloniki Film Festival, an event that took place between November 13 and 22.The jury of the festival, chaired b ...

Romanian president Traian Basescu, running for the second term in office as president with endorsement of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) on Tuesday stated that the constitutional review committee should be set up immediately after the announcement ...

The National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) on Tuesday evening signed a cooperation protocol concerning the endorsement of a candidate in the presidential runoff 'who will guarantee good cooperation among th ...

President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Crin Antonescu ruled out on Monday any kind of collaboration with and support for incumbent President Traian Basescu ahead of the presidential runoff vote due on Dec. 6.'Traian Basescu is a right-wing ca ...

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Mircea Geoana said on Monday that the Social Democrats' preference was for a Social Liberal majority built around Klaus Johannis as Prime Minister.'I am consistent and say that our preference is for ...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will stay in Romania for the 2nd round of the presidential elections too, due on December 6, the head of the mission Russian expert Vadim Jdanovici on Monday announced.He also said that the ...