27 aug. • Regional Europe Letter from Russian President to Moldovan counterpart: We are ready to strengthen Russia-Moldova friendship Russian President Dmitri Medvedev congratulated his counterpart in the Republic of Moldova Vladimir Voronin on Thursday, the Independence Day of the ex-Soviet country. In a message posted on the Russian presidency website, Medvedev says he… Share
27 aug. • Top News Presidential Administration: Illegal arms transport accusations – a media and political manipulation aimed at discrediting the state Share
27 aug. • Business Rompetrol Group prepares takeover offer for shares held in Rompetrol Rafinare and Rompetrol Well Services Share
26 aug. • Business The new Toyota generation, Toyota Prius, will arrive in Romania in September, costing 25.000 euros Share
26 aug. • Politics The final draft of the unique salary scheme: A consultant could earn a maximum of 5.10 minimum salaries and a specialist in public administration – 1.5 salaries Share
26 aug. • Business IFC could lend Transilvania Bank 50 million euros to finance the medical sector Share
26 aug. • Regional Europe Over 600,000 people are running late with paying up credits, while they sum they owe doubled Share
26 aug. • Regional Europe Sahtior and Mircea Lucescu are first to qualify the Europa League's groups Share
26 aug. • Bucharest Madonna is in Bucharest. The traffic around Izvor Park is temporarily closed on Wednesday Share
25 aug. • Top News UEFA fines Bucharest football club Dinamo with 50,000 euro and bans fans for three games Share
25 aug. • Business The final draft of the unique salary scheme law is still unknown / Negotiations with the government continue Share
25 aug. • Business Nongovernmental credits dropped by 0.1% in July / The annual growth rhythm slowed to 10.8% Share
24 aug. • Business Colliers International: Only 515 new flats were sold in Bucharest in the first 2009 semester Share
24 aug. • Politics PDL requests the juridical Commission to investigate members of the Udrea Commission Share
24 aug. • Politics Romanian social-democrat: There will be other anti-Basescu documents in the days to come, even from lib-dems Share
24 aug. • Politics Romanian Education minister: I'm profoundly disappointed to be used as political weapon by PSD and PD-L Share
24 aug. • Politics The first repercussions of the arms trade case involving the President's brother Share
24 aug. • Regional Europe The Observer on Silviu Purcarete's "Faust": I'd sell my soul to see this Faust again Share
24 aug. • Politics Lib-dem member on social-democrats: I think they should be kicked out of the Government Share
21 aug. • Business Romanian Commercial Bank forecasts 8% contraction of Romanian economy this year Share
21 aug. • Business Romanian PM Boc: Government to take responsibility for a bill on reinvested profit Share
21 aug. • Business National Statistics Institute launches 5 mln euro tender for statistical data processing website Share
21 aug. • Business Trade union leader: Starting next year, low salaries will rise and high salaries will be capped Share
21 aug. • Politics Predident Basescu reacts about his brother's involvement in military-related company Share
21 aug. • Top News President Basescu says he regrets a member of his family is shareholder in arms business Share
21 aug. • Regional Europe Mother of Romanian-American killed in Lockerbie bombing: Attacker should have stayed in jail Share
21 aug. • Politics Congolese PSD member offers Romania's President a boat to sail for Africa after the elections Share
20 aug. • Business Mobile telephony operators in 2008: ZAPP, RCS&RDS and Cosmote running on losses / Orange and Vodafone see 745 million euros worth of joint profit Share
20 aug. • Politics Australian authorities verify in the smallest detail Romanian visa request because of Romanian and Bulgarian crime gangs Share
20 aug. • Regional Europe Play-off Four Romanian teams are running for a place in the 12 Europa League groups Share
20 aug. • Show at the investigation Commission for the minister of Tourism Romanian minister of Tourism left Commission hearings after requesting members to be replaced Share
20 aug. • Bucharest Romanian minister of Interior: The Ministry of Interior will receive sufficient money to pay up salaries Share
19 aug. • Business Romanian media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu: I no longer have faith in general interest newspapers Share
19 aug. • Top News Communications Ministry relaunches 10 million euro tender for e-Romania portal, demanding sub-portal for Orthodoxy as "national religion" Share
19 aug. • Regional Europe Romania reports highest constructions sector growth among EU countries in June Share
19 aug. • Bucharest Bucharest District 4 City Hall to contract 100 million lei loan for infrastructure investments Share
18 aug. • Politics Finance Ministry: First IMF instalment to be repaid by the Romanian Central Bank – 5 billion euros from its own sources Share
18 aug. • Regional Europe Congo citizen Gaston Bienvenu Mboumba Bakabana became vice-president of the Social-Democratic Youth in Cluj-Napoca Share
18 aug. • Politics Economy minister: Romania is like a sick man, who sometimes catches a cold. It lacks the other countries' strength to emerge from the economic-financial crisis Share
18 aug. • Regional Europe Romanian Economy minister: Romania does not exclude South Stream, but it hasn't been invited yet Share
18 aug. • Politics Romanian liberal requested the Prosecutors' General Office office to investigate the illegal recording of a parliamentary commission Share
18 aug. • The Education laws, in public debate Romanian President: The Romanian school cannot afford the mass-production of unemployed. Education must be radically reformed Share
18 aug. • IT sector and stationery record the biggest decreases GFK: Romanian long-term use goods market dropped 40% in the first 2009 semester Share
17 aug. • Business Romania ranked 6 in top commercial deficit in the EU, after the first five monehts of 2009 Share
17 aug. • Politics PSD leader Mircea Geoana: the coalition decided to adopt 32 anti-crisis measures Share
14 aug. • Regional Europe The Moldovan Constitutional Court validated the legislative elections Share
14 aug. • Top News Former Sports and Youth minister Monica Iacob Ridzi summoned by anti-graft prosecutors Share
14 aug. • Top News Spiru Haret private university won the trial against Education ministry and will be able to organize admissions to accredited courses Share
14 aug. • Top News Parliamentary investigation committee President Ludovic Orban sued for abuse in service Share
13 aug. • Regional Europe Le Monde: incoherent policies and institutionalized corruption drag Romania towards failure Share
13 aug. • Top News PSD leader Mircea Geoana: Romanians returning home who decide to launch a business in the agriculture sector receive 25,000 euro Share
13 aug. • Regional Europe Human Rights Watch London: an investigation should determine the role of Romanian authorities in the CIA jails scandal Share
13 aug. • Regional Europe New York Times: a building downtown Bucharest was used as a CIA secret prison Share
12 aug. • Politics CSOP survey: Traian Basescu – 35%, Mircea Geoana – 21%, Crin Antonescu – 15%. Bucharest mayor could get 22% if he runs for PDS Share
12 aug. • Business Direct foreign investment in Romania dropped 43%, amounting to 2.8 billion euros in the first semester Share