Romania

Mircea Dusa, Romania’s defence minister said on Tuesday that United States plans to deploy anti-missile interceptors in Romania will continue and interceptors will be deployed in 2015. “I have very serious assurances from the American side that the investment in Romania will continue,” Dusa said.  

Turkish and Romanian foreign ministers signed a cooperation protocol in the fields of education, culture, youth and sports in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean said this protocol will strengthen the relations between the two countries. “The signing of the action plan for the strategic partnership really excites …

Romanian Foreign Minister, Titus Corlatean, will make an official two-day visit to Turkey intended to increase the bilateral relations between the two countries. He will visit Ankara on March 13-14, after being invited by his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. 

Romanian Delegate Minister for Foreign Investment, Dan Sova, said on Thursday during an Azerbaijani-Romanian business forum that Romania is ready and willing to create needed conditions for business development of Azerbaijani companies in the country. He stressed the importance of business fields like energy, agriculture or road construction. 

A Romanian delegation will visit Baku on March 14 to discuss the possibility to develop inter-parliamentary relations between Azerbaijan and Romania. The Romanian delegation of MPs is led by chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament Valeriu Zgonea and they will meet with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and their counterparts.

Romania’s goal to join the eurozone in 2015 is “unfeasible”, President Traian Basescu told lawmakers on Tuesday. “The 2015 deadline for entering the eurozone looks unfeasible to me,” Basescu said in a speech to parliament. “But it is essential for us to adopt the single currency within the next three …

Berlin. European Parliament President Martin Schulz thinks that the debates over the inflow of poor immigrants from East Europe are exaggerated, Deutschlandradio reported. “There is no mass poverty migration from Romania or anywhere else,” Schulz remarked.

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat’s pro-Europe government resigned on Friday after being defeated in a confidence vote, raising the prospect of early elections unless a new government is approved within six weeks. Filat’s government effectively collapsed on March 5 when it lost a confidence vote in which it was deserted …

Romania and Bulgaria’s Schengen entry has been postponed indefinitely again. Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean has said Bucharest may give up joining the Schengen Agreement. We have been living without Schengen up to now

Prime Minister Ponta says a new law should finally resolve the prolonged dispute about property seized by the Communists after the Second World War.The centre-right government of Victor Ponta said it will seek parliament’s approval for a law compensating former owners of properties confiscated by the Communist regime after the …