11 aug. • Regional Europe Russell Leetch, Editors bass guitarist: We are a better band than Arctic Monkeys The Editors make indie rock and will be performing in Romania’s main city on August 16, in The Summer Terrace Herastrau from the Capital. Russell Leetch, the band’s bass guitarist, talked to HotNews.ro about „the… Share
11 aug. • Politics Romanian Finance minister: 17.5 billion lei less for the state budget incomes by the end of 2009 Share
11 aug. • Regional Europe UPDATE Policemen's protest finished. The unions threaten with general strike Share
11 aug. • Politics Romanian minister of Finance: All state employees will have ten days of unpaid holiday Share
10 aug. • Politics Social-Democratic leader: Anti-crisis and economic stimulus measures are failing and need to be changed Share
10 aug. • Bucharest Ex-Romanian National Transplant Agency chief, investigated in the human-eggs traffic Share
10 aug. • Regional Europe Croatia: A car belonging to U2 was hit by a car with Romanian tourists Share
10 aug. • Regional Europe IMF delegation chief Jeffrey Franks: The GDP will drop by 8% – 8.5% in 2009, meaning that a very severe recession hit Romania Share
10 aug. • Politics Romanian PM: The reinvested profit will not be taxed starting October 1. The fixed tax will be reduced from January 1, 2010 Share
10 aug. • Business Romania's commercial deficit dropped 6.8 billion euros in the first 2009 semester Share
10 aug. • Politics The democratic coalition from the Republic of Moldova: We'll take out the visas for Romanians as soon as we'll be governing Share
10 aug. • Politics Four opposition parties in Moldova have formed the governing coalition – the "Alliance for European Integration" Share
7 aug. • Business Finance minister Gheorghe Pogea: Romania's economy shrank by over 8% in the second quarter Share
7 aug. • Regional Europe Europa League: FK Sarajevo – CFR Cluj / Steaua – St Patrick's / Dinamo – Slovan Liberec / FC Vaslui – AEK Athens Share
7 aug. • Top News Vasile Blaga: the second IMF installment will be targeted to salaries, pensions and investments in infrastructure Share
6 aug. • Regional Europe IMF: Reduce the local spending. We're willing to accept a 7.2% budget deficit Share
6 aug. • Politics The Russian ambassador in Chisinau: Russia respects Moldavians' choice, but it's too soon to say who will be in power Share
6 aug. • Politics Romanian PM: I do not wish to run for Presidency. PDL's candidate is Traian Basescu Share
6 aug. • Business Fitch: Romanian banks will face a difficult economic environment in 2009 and 2010 Share
6 aug. • HotNews.ro analysis The car crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: from Europe's Detroit, to Volga and Lada Share
6 aug. • From our correspondent in Germany The hunger's salary. Romanian seasonal workers in Germany take courage and denounce their employers Share
5 aug. • Business IMF: We've been mistakenly quoted / We maintain the initial calendar for the adoption of the unique salary scheme Share
5 aug. • Regional Europe Vladimir Voronin: the Communist Party will become the new opposition if the party fails to form a coalition Share
5 aug. • Top News A 5.1 degrees on a Richter scale earthquake hits the Black Sea region / The tremor was felt in Bucharest Share
4 aug. • Bucharest The US Ambassador in Bucharest: His mission is to help Romania get out of the crisis and to strengthen the Romanian-American partnership Share
4 aug. • Regional Europe French Press: Romanian hackers cooperate against authorities, after a person was fined 3,000 euros for illegal file sharing Share
4 aug. • Politics Social-Democratic leader: It is compulsory that Romania receives the second IMF instalment Share
4 aug. • Politics IMF negotiations: Adopting the unique income law might be postponed. The IMF is against the minimum income to be taken as reference Share
4 aug. • Regional Europe The first Romanian lab for measuring radiations emitted by mobiles opened in Craiova Share
4 aug. • English A Romanian, professional American football player, will be featured in Playboy Share
4 aug. • Business Romanian Central Bank reduces the interest to 8.5% and the minimum foreign currency deposits to 30% Share
4 aug. • Bucharest Chief of clinic involved in human eggs traffic scandal requests to be released from jail, as he cannot stand the detention regime Share
3 aug. • Bucharest Romania's National Central Bank will issue 500 silver anniversary coins to mark 140 years since the first railway Share
3 aug. • Business Romania ranked 14 in top European countries producing cars / Germany leads the top while Austria and Italy register record drops Share
3 aug. • Regional Europe Romanian tennis players Sorana Cirstea and Monica Niculescu take part in the LA tournament Share
3 aug. • Regional Europe German police arrests 10 Romanian thieves at the Heavy Metal Wacken Open Air festival Share
31 iul. • Business Romanian businessman: A 7-8% economy drop would mean a "big catastrophe" for the business environment Share
31 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Marian Lupu, PDM leader: We begin the negotiations with the liberal parties Share
31 iul. • Regional Europe German workers made redundant after Nokia moved a plant to Romania with the EU's help Share
31 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Final results of Wednesday's elections: Communists raised 44.69%, insufficient for a majority in Parliament Share
31 iul. • Regional Europe 146 thousand euros efficiently spent – EU experts evaluated the preparation of Romanian consulates for Schengen Share
31 iul. • Business State plane company to change selling strategy after negotiations with Alenia Aeronautica failed Share
31 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Moldavian communists drop to 44.7% after counting 99.8% of the votes Share
30 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 The EU requests political parties in Moldova prove reconciliation Share
30 iul. • Politics Romanian President addressing Boc Government: Brothers, take the current number of employees and reduce it by 20%! Share
30 iul. • Regional Europe The IMF chief of mission in Romania: We're willing to be flexible, since the economic situation got worse Share
30 iul. • Politics If the Opposition takes over the power in Chisinau, Romania needs to act as link between Brussels and Chisinau and pass this major test Share
30 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Kommersant: Moscow needs to think about other political forces to do business with in Chisinau Share
30 iul. • Politics Sources: Liberal-democrats prepare to kick out the social-democrats from the Government Share
30 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 What the Romanian European parliamentarians noted in Moldova: Calm and high presence to the polls, but the impossibility of voting in parts of Transnistria Share
30 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Moldova Noastra Alliance: The Communists fired guns at ANM members Share
30 iul. • Preliminary official results after counting 98% of the votes UPDATE Moldova: The Opposition announces it can make up the government, but it is 8 votes away from electing the country's president. PCRM proposes a large national union coalition Share
29 iul. • Business National Bank of Greece financial manager denies interest in Transilvania Bank Share
29 iul. • Politics Russian Patriarch criticises the idea of the ex-soviet republics joining the EU: Are the values that Brussels proposes to us so precious that we haven't got them ourselves? Share
29 iul. • Regional Europe The copper exploitation in Rosia Poieni, close to an ecological disaster Share
29 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Liberal Vlad Filat: I discovered an electoral fraud in my own house.* Democrat Marian Lupu: We're militating for a tight cooperation with Russia Share
29 iul. • Champions League, preliminary tour UPDATE Sahtior – FC Timisoara 2-2/ A true match for the champions Share
29 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Vladimir Voronin: We'll drop the visas for Romanian when the EU removes the visas for Moldavians Share
29 iul. • Moldova elections 2009 Moldavians vote on Wednesday in early general elections. 10.8% of the voters exercised their choice by 11 o'clock Share
29 iul. • Moldovan elections 2009 UPDATE: Elections incidents in the Republic of Moldova: one single voter has been listed 52 times on electoral lists, blocked access to voting sections, invalid lists and vote bulletins only in Russian Share
29 iul. • Regional Europe Romanian Camelia Potec received a bronze medal at the Rome World Championships Share
28 iul. • Regional Europe Adrian Sarbu named President and Executive Director of the Central European Media Enterprise Share
28 iul. • Top News Romanian DC++ user compelled to pay civil damages worth 3,000 euro for sharing non copyright files Share
28 iul. • Regional Europe Romania received a first 1.5 billion euro installment from the European Commission Share
28 iul. • Regional Europe Romanian pupils won 4 medals at the International Chemistry Olympics in Great Britain Share
27 iul. • Top News Constanta mayor Radu Mazare investigated by prosecutors for his Nazi fashion apparel Share
27 iul. • Moldova 2009 elections Romanian journalists, held on Chisinau's airport by Moldovan customs Share
27 iul. • Top News Chamber of Deputies Judicial Committee to approve a penal investigation against ex Sports minister Monica Iacob Ridzi Share
