24 feb. • Business Major Romanian bank BCR employees to protest on Friday Employees of major financial group Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) will organize street protests on Friday against what they call a lack of social dialogue, the elimination from working contracts of bonuses according to bank performance… Share
24 feb. • Business Government official: Romania to have 1,000 km of highway built in public-private partnerships by 2020, is interested in Gulf investors Share
24 feb. • Business Nine Ford providers produce components in Craiova plant, other four to open factories in industrial plant near SE Romanian city Share
23 feb. • Business Romanian Finance minister: A cut in social contributions for employers currently analyzed Share
22 feb. • Top News Romanian President: Stick out your finger and you hit corruption elements. There are enough Interior Ministry employees not doing their job and tolerating organized crime groups Share
22 feb. • Politics Social Democratic leader: Opposition parties to submit censure motion should government assume responsibility over Labor Code Share
22 feb. • Business INTERVIEW Romania Economy ministry may remain with 51% stake in most important state company Hidroelectrica Share
21 feb. • Top News Unions to protest starting February 28 and enter in strike when the labour code is to be promulgated Share
21 feb. • Politics Romania President Basescu: Failure in advancing high level corruption files would certainly lead to negative report this summer Share
21 feb. • Top News Romania and Bulgaria’s chances to join Schengen depend on the next EC report Share
21 feb. • Top News UPDATE Massive raids at Albita customs; 53 police officers arrested including chief of the customs police Share
18 feb. • Regional Europe EC report on Bulgaria: Bulgaria made insufficient progress in its judicial reform and fight against corruption Share
18 feb. • Business ZEW and Erste survey: Romania’s economic perspectives for the next six months improved Share
18 feb. • Top News Justice minister Catalin Predoiu on the EC report: Romania proved the necessary political will to continue reforms Share
18 feb. • Top News Senate’s Speaker Mircea Geoana: EC report proves that the ruling coalition push Romania downwards Share
18 feb. • Top News Romanian Intelligence Service to pay 50,000 lei damages to businessman Dinu Patriciu for illegally tapping his phones Share
18 feb. • Top News Dacian Ciolos about the EC report: the appraisals should not be diminished nor exaggerated Share
18 feb. • Top News EC report: Romania mad progress in its anti-corruption fight but needs to accelerate high corruption cases trials / Ridzi and Pasat cases, reproaches of the EC Share
18 feb. • Top News Sources: deputy governor Cristi Popa was never considered for the Prime Minister seat and he did not have a meeting with the President Share
18 feb. • Top News Sources: President Basescu met Central Bank deputy governor Cristia Popa to propose the Prime Minister seat Share
18 feb. • Top News European Commission might present the interim justice reports on Romania and Bulgaria Share
17 feb. • Business Rockefeller Group plans to invest over 100 million euro in the real estate market in the region including Romania Share
17 feb. • Top News Romania’s tourism will be promoted on the internet / Who are the foreign tourists, where do they come from, where do they stay in Romania and what comfort they seek Share
17 feb. • Top News Tourism minister Elena Udrea: Romanian tourism managed to pull out from the crisis Share
17 feb. • Top News Justice minister Catalin Predoiu: we will present a pack of measures following ECHR’s pilot decision against Romania Share
17 feb. • Regional Europe Romania on first place in the EU on construction activity in December Share
16 feb. • Top News Sources: New twists in Democratic Liberal options: a technocrat PM might be in the cards again Share
16 feb. • Business Oxford Economics revises previous estimates and forecasts that Romania’s economy will grow this year Share
16 feb. • Bucharest Court rejects the complain to recuse the judge ruling Sorin Ovidiu Vantu’s case The trial involving media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu will still be presided by judge Camelia Bogdan Share
16 feb. • Top News Higher Court of Justice decided to have the 15 customs and police officers from the Moravita customs in preventive arrest Share
16 feb. • Top News Romanian TV star Teo Trandafir remains at Vienna hospital as her health condition worsen Share
16 feb. • Top News Social Democrats threaten to submit a motion of censure after the Hungarian Democrats congress Share
16 feb. • Top News Bulgarian official: Romania’s joining Schengen will not be postpone because of Bulgaria / Romania and Bulgaria will adopt a common declaration on Schengen Share
15 feb. • Top News The ninth trial term involving media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. Vantu threatens to hunt down Basescu and demanded the judge’s replacement Share
15 feb. • Top News PM Emil Boc: Replacing me with independent prime minister has not been discussed directly Share
15 feb. • Top News Sources: Governing party should go with PM Boc if it wanted him, President Basescu allegedly told Democratic Liberal MPs. Basescu: independent might be a solution, but with little chance of support Share
15 feb. • Top News Sources: President Basescu to propose Cristian Popa as Prime Minister / However, things get complicated as the party would opt for Blaga Share
15 feb. • Top News Sources New names for the PM position discussed on Monday night by President Basescu with PDL leaders / President Basescu is expected at the Democratic Liberal Party parliamentary groups Share
15 feb. • Top News Orange and Vodafore fined by 63.1 million euro for abuse of dominant position Share
15 feb. • Top News Former customs chief Marius Ungureanu: I bribed Marica, he is the main beneficiary of the system / There was no way you could exit Share
15 feb. • Top News Higher Court of Justice rules the appeal of 15 customs and police officers from Siret Customs Share
15 feb. • Top News Wikileaks: Romania, among dissatisfied countries by the NATO response at the Russian military exercises in 2009 Share
15 feb. • Top News Reactions to the Isarescu solution: Andrei Mare This is Basescu’s attempt to put the pressure of the crisis on other shoulders / L. Orban: Basescu cannot be so tactless/ L. Olguta Vasilescu: Basescu desperately seeks an independent PM Share
14 feb. • Top News Solution to unlock 84 million euro from the EU for broadband internet in poor areas in Romania, to be presented to the EC next week Share
14 feb. • Top News UPDATE Senate validates the 8 members of the Superior Council of Magistracy/ Dan Lupascu, Lidia Barbulescu and Dan Chiujdea excluded Share
14 feb. • Politics Sources: Romania President visited Central Bank on Monday in attempt to have governor Isarescu accept PM position Share
14 feb. • Top News The Senate debates on validating the 8 members of the Superior Council of Magistracy/ Judicial Committee rejects the version to validate those magistrates about whom the Constitutional Court did not make any mention Share
14 feb. • Regional Europe European Commissioner Viviane Reding about arrests at Romanian customs: it is a sign that justice starts to work Share
14 feb. • Regional Europe Adevarul Holding shuts down the print version of the Blik daily in Ukraine Share
14 feb. • Top News Justice Minister Predoiu: Senate needs to validate the 8 magistrates legally elected by the Superior Council of Magistracy / Any other decision would be contrary to the Constitution Share
14 feb. • Politics Romanian President Basescu says governing party has credibility issues speaks on border points corruption Share
11 feb. • Top News IMF intent letter: the government will privatize some energy companies if it will fail to create Electra and Hidroenergetica giants Share
10 feb. • Top News Cablegate scandal: Boeing accused Airbus for attempting to bribe Romania’s government in 2008 for a contract with Tarom Share
10 feb. • Top News Peter Husslein, Sorin Ovidiu Vantu’s gynecologist: "I organized Vantu’s treatment at Vienna. I did not treat him, because he did not have a gynecological problem" Share
10 feb. • Top News President Basescu: EU justice report on Romania will be released on Friday / We needed the Pasat case to shatter suspicions that we have a Superior Council of Magistracy that lacks credibility Share
10 feb. • Top News Halmeu customs scandal: Eugeniu Petrescu is on the Democratic Liberal Party donors list in 2004 and 2006 Share
10 feb. • Top News President Basescu for RRA: How is it possible to accuse the ruling party of corruption at the customs when the operation was undertaken now, when the party is still ruling? It is a huge intoxicating action Share
10 feb. • Regional Europe Dutch minister: it’s in Romania’s interest to join Schengen when it is ready Share
10 feb. • Top News Arges court decided to arrest 32 people in the customs scandal / Another 12 customs and police officers from Naidas – Moravita customs received temporary arrest warrants Share
10 feb. • Top News National Customs chief Radu Marginean dismissed by PM Boc/ New arrest waves in the Naidas and Moravita customs Share
9 feb. • Top News National Agency for Fiscal Administration chief called by PM Boc for an evaluation of the situation at Romania’s customs Share
9 feb. • Regional Europe Romanian minors’ virginity out for auction, 40 pimps arrested in Italy Share
9 feb. • Top News Dozens of police and customs officers arrested following anti-corruption raids Share
9 feb. • Regional Europe Yet anoter step for a new natural gas route: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania establish project company AGRI Share
9 feb. • Top News National Customs Chief Radu Marginean indicted by anti graft prosecutors for bribe taking Share
9 feb. • Top News 45 of the customs and police officers picked up after Tuesday’s raids, detained for 24 hours Share
8 feb. • Top News Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda for RFI: the arrests at the customs are a good sign Share
8 feb. • Top News Higher Court of Justice rejects the appeal of Siret customs police officers against the anti graft prosecutors’ decision to temporary arrest them Share
