Romania News

Following years of tensions, Romania and the Republic of Moldova moved closer Friday with the signing of several bilateral agreements, officials say.

The official talks on the new agreement with the EU will start on January 12, Moldova’s Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca said in a news conference held in Bucharest after a meeting with his Romanian counterpart Catalin Predoiu. “We hope the new agreement will be called association agreement and when we …

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has left for a two-day working visit to Bucharest on November 13 early morning. During the first half of Friday, he was scheduled to attend a Summit of the heads of government of Central European Initiative (CEI) member countries, during which he is to make a …

Gentiana Serbu was assigned general consult, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Cahul, a recently inaugurated consulate through the decree of the Romanian president. Dumitru-Nicanor Teculescu was assigned general consul, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Balti.

The Central European Initiative (CEI) summit will take place in Bucharest today and tomorrow. The gathering will bring together prime ministers and foreign ministers of the 18 member states, as well as senior representatives of international financial institutions.

The Romanian Parliament on Wednesday adopted legislative amendments that will empower the acting government to draft and ratify laws, crucial to adopting a budget for 2010. Romania’s current political crisis, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Emic Boc last month, has left the country without a government that has …

Romania’s new prime minister-designate Liviu Negoita unveiled his cabinet yesterday in the hope of ending a month-long political crisis, although it has little chance of winning parliamentary approval before a November 22 presidential election. Opposition groupings, which dominate parliament, rejected a previous nominee of President Traian Basescu last week and …

Info-Prim Neo interview with Romanian MEP Sebastian Bodu – How is Moldova regarded in Brussels, especially the democracy in Moldova? – Romania has always been attentive to the changes experienced by Moldova. The April 7 events attracted a lot of attention as there were violated the principles of democracy, the …

Two of the major political parties in Romania refused to join talks on forming a new government on Sunday (8 November), even after international lenders warned that they would not release a payment of €1 billion as long as no real cabinet is in place.

Experts from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, engaged in conflict resolution and civil society, discussed in Bucharest the initiative of the “Black Sea platform of peace”. This platform should provide a comprehensive, transparent, democratic space for civil society in the region. The platform is a regional initiative of the …