Romania News

Bulgaria and Romania have been holding talks about the delimitation of the Black Sea areas for more than 20 years, the spokesperson for the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced. The latest round (17th) was held in December 2011 in Sofia, with the next round

OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou applauded the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for electing a national president after a more than two and half year political stalemate in Chisinau. “We are pleased that a president has been elected,” said Efthymiou, who led the OSCE election

In Moscow, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has met with Chairman of the Parliament of Moldova Marian Lupu. Yanukovych expressed his congratulations to the newly elected president of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti. The two discussed bilateral relations between the states.

The governments of Bulgaria and Turkey are going to hold their first ever joint sitting on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Turkey will be the fourth country, with which Bulgaria will have a joint Cabinet sitting, after similar sittings with the Cabinets of Greece in 2010, and Israel and Romania in …

Catherine Ashton and Stefan Fule congratulates Moldova after electing new president: “We welcome the successful outcome of the presidential election in Chisinau, by which the members of the Moldovan Parliament have demonstrated their sense

The President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barosso has said, after a meeting in Brussels with the Romanian Prime Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Romania can count on the European Commission for a final decision on the country’s accession to Schengen to be made in September this year. “It is …

Moldova’s parliament brought a three-year-long constitutional crisis to an end on Friday, March 16 by electing a former judge, Nicolae Timofti, as the country’s president. Timofti, who is 63, had been nominated by Moldova’s ruling pro-European coalition and

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu called Wednesday for an extraordinary EU summit to answer the rising influence of far-right and anti-European parties in Europe.

Moldova is to call a national referendum on country’s joining the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The decision to call a referendum and the exact date for its

The Moldovan parliament has set a presidential election for March 16. The country has had acting presidents for the past 900 days, as parliament has failed to agree on a candidate amid prolonged disagreements between political factions. Members of the ruling pro-European coalition and the Socialists agreed to hold the …