Romania News

On 28 November, the European Commission adopted the second part of the 2011 regional Action Plan for the Eastern Neighbourhood, addressing challenges in sectors relevant for the whole region, such as integrated border management, territorial co-operation, youth, climate change and transport.

Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandyan has met visiting Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Theodore Bakonski on a recent visit to Armenia. Nalbandyan said that the traditional friendship between the two countries created a favourable ground for the further

The Netherlands will block proposals to admit Romania and Bulgaria into Europe’s passport-free travel zone until the two newest EU members persuade it they are making progress in fighting corruption, a Dutch minister said

Moldovan Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca says Moscow is increasingly open to a “more intense dialogue” with Chisinau over the breakaway region of Transdniester. Leanca said on November 21 that Moldovan officials will ask Russian Foreign Minister

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has today received the copies of credentials of new Romanian ambassador in Azerbaijan Daniel Cristian Ciobanu, the ministry said. The new Romanian ambassador at the meeting stressed the great potential to develop bilateral relations in many spheres, particularly in the areas of economy, trade and …

Romania may join the European Union’s passport-free travel system in two steps next year pending Dutch approval, President Traian Basescu said today. The 25-nation Schengen Area, named for the Luxembourg town in which the accord was signed, may open its marine and air borders to Romania in March and land …

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi, who has arrived in Yerevan for a working visit.

The Netherlands remains strongly opposed to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the visa-free Schengen zone at this stage, Dutch interior ministry spokesperson Alexander Vanderee told Bulgarian National Radio on November 15 2011.

Bulgaria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, has extended accolades to Finland’s new position on the country’s Schengen accession. Mladenov said Sofia is applauding the news and voices certainty the change

Presidential elections in Moldova have been canceled after the parties failed to agree on possible candidates, raising the possibility of early parliamentary polls in the former Soviet republic. The elections, scheduled for November 18, were called off after the date for candidate registration