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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

Bucharest Court rejected on Wednesday, February 16th the request to recuse judge Camelia Bogdan formulated by media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu’s lawyers in the trial in which the businessman is indicted for favoring Romanian fugitive…

16 feb. •

Higher Court of Justice decided to have the 15 customs and police officers from the Moravita customs in preventive arrest

16 feb. •

Railway state companies’ arrears increased by 2.248% in 10 years

16 feb. •

Romanian TV star Teo Trandafir remains at Vienna hospital as her health condition worsen

16 feb. •

Social Democrats threaten to submit a motion of censure after the Hungarian Democrats congress

16 feb. •

Bulgarian official: Romania’s joining Schengen will not be postpone because of Bulgaria / Romania and Bulgaria will adopt a common declaration on Schengen

15 feb. •

The ninth trial term involving media mogul Sorin Ovidiu Vantu. Vantu threatens to hunt down Basescu and demanded the judge’s replacement

15 feb. •

PM Emil Boc: Replacing me with independent prime minister has not been discussed directly

15 feb. •

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

15 feb. •

Sources: President Basescu to propose Cristian Popa as Prime Minister / However, things get complicated as the party would opt for Blaga

15 feb. •

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

15 feb. •

Orange and Vodafore fined by 63.1 million euro for abuse of dominant position

15 feb. •

Former customs chief Marius Ungureanu: I bribed Marica, he is the main beneficiary of the system / There was no way you could exit

15 feb. •

Higher Court of Justice rules the appeal of 15 customs and police officers from Siret Customs

15 feb. •

Wikileaks: Romania, among dissatisfied countries by the NATO response at the Russian military exercises in 2009

15 feb. •

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

14 feb. •

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

14 feb. •

UPDATE Senate validates the 8 members of the Superior Council of Magistracy/ Dan Lupascu, Lidia Barbulescu and Dan Chiujdea excluded

14 feb. •

Government rejects civil partnership which legalizes same sex unions

14 feb. •

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

14 feb. •

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

11 feb. •

IMF intent letter: the government will privatize some energy companies if it will fail to create Electra and Hidroenergetica giants

10 feb. •

Cablegate scandal: Boeing accused Airbus for attempting to bribe Romania’s government in 2008 for a contract with Tarom

10 feb. •

The three people indicted in the Halmeu customs case remain under arrest

10 feb. •

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"

10 feb. •

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

10 feb. •

Halmeu customs scandal: Eugeniu Petrescu is on the Democratic Liberal Party donors list in 2004 and 2006

10 feb. •

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

10 feb. •

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

10 feb. •

National Customs chief Radu Marginean dismissed by PM Boc/ New arrest waves in the Naidas and Moravita customs

9 feb. •

Netherlands: Romania and Bulgaria cannot join Schengen at this stage

9 feb. •

National Agency for Fiscal Administration chief called by PM Boc for an evaluation of the situation at Romania’s customs

9 feb. •

RFI: EU declassifies Romania's Schengen technical reports

9 feb. •

Dozens of police and customs officers arrested following anti-corruption raids

Radu Marginean, seful ANV, Foto: Autoritatea Nationala a Vamilor

9 feb. •

National Customs Chief Radu Marginean indicted by anti graft prosecutors for bribe taking

9 feb. •

45 of the customs and police officers picked up after Tuesday’s raids, detained for 24 hours

8 feb. •

Shift foreman at Moravita Customs wanted together with another 6 people

8 feb. •

Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda for RFI: the arrests at the customs are a good sign

8 feb. •

Higher Court of Justice rejects the appeal of Siret customs police officers against the anti graft prosecutors’ decision to temporary arrest them

8 feb. •

The map of corruption cases at Romania’s customs/ See in the article the status of trials against customs officers

8 feb. •

Romanian railways unions threaten to strike in March

8 feb. •

UPDATE Deputies rejected the request of anti-graft prosecutors to arrest Dan Pasat / Democratic Liberal Pasat requests anti-graft prosecutors to send the file to justice

8 feb. •

Major raids at Romanian customs. Suspects brought to Bucharest by helicopters. Minister questions trade union leaders

8 feb. •

IMF: we agreed on Romania’s future necessary policies

7 feb. •

PM Emil Boc: we will request EU to lift the VAT registration limit to 50,000 euro

7 feb. •

Finnish European Affairs minister: we are interested to see if the arrested Romanian customs officers will be sentenced

7 feb. •

IRES survey: Russia, France and Germany – Romania’s main enemies

7 feb. •

Mugur Isarescu: inflation will drop below 7% in January

T Nakashima, Foto: Sony

7 feb. •

Sony names new chief over operations in Romania

7 feb. •

President Traian Basescu: Romania will sign in March a new precautionary agreement with the IMF for 2 years with 5 billion euro at our disposal/ We will not take the last installment from the IMF loan, worth 1 billion euro

4 feb. •

Egypt protests’ impact on Romanian tourism agencies: possible losses of 12.5 million euro

4 feb. •

Black Sea shore in Romania froze due to very low temperatures

3 feb. •

Audio interview Freelancer Cristian Botez talks about the latest evolutions of the Egyptian uprising in the Tahrir Square

3 feb. •

World Bank prepares two new financing programs for Romania worth 750 million euro

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3 feb. •

Special correspondence from Egypt, Cristian Botez, freelancer: Friday, the decisive day."There will be war! There will be massacre!" protesters yell

3 feb. •

About 80 police and customs officers, detained at Siret Custom for traffic of cigarettes/ Traffic in the customs was resumed

2 feb. •

Romanian journalist Adelin Petrisor and his operator threatened with the knife by civilian Egyptians in Cairo

2 feb. •

Next IMF agreement will target the flexibility of the labour market. Labour Code might include a stipulation through which employees could lay off personnel on efficiency grounds

Cristian Botez, Foto: Arhiva personala

2 feb. •

Romanian journalist Cristian Botez in Cairo: Children and teenagers are in the middle of the fight / Hotel doors are blocked by furniture / All militaries withdrew in tanks

2 feb. •

Wikileaks: A Romanian company was supposed to transport automatic guns to Libya

2 feb. •

Constantin Nicolescu’s lawyer: even though he committed those crimes, he didn’t have to be arrested / We should consider his invaluable contribution to the Arges county

2 feb. •

Ponta and Antonescu made a deal for the alliance in Nastase’s office / Ponta: the principle of parity stands

2 feb. •

IMF did not demand a price increase for the population but presented a solution to drop gas prices by 15% – sources

1 feb. •

Labour force costs in Romania are 50% lower than in Western Europe and the average advantage with the human capital is at the same level as that in the US

1 feb. •

Romania to spend 17.2 million lei to promote the “leaf” of the tourist brand on international televisions

31 ian. •

PSD protest at Pitesti as a sign of solidarity with the PSD County Council President from Arges

Marian Vanghelie: I will stand by Nicolescu as I will stand by all irregularities. Each morning at 6AM I wait for the police, to see if my turn is up yet

31 ian. •

Government’s legislative program on 2011: by June, 70 draft laws will be sent in Parliament

31 ian. •

First disagreement between the Liberals and Social Democrats: Liberals want their own candidates for Bucharest Mayor / Ponta says there will be common candidates for Bucharest City Hall

31 ian. •

Romanian state to cash dividends worth 43.5 million euro from Romtelecom’s profits for 2006 and 2007

28 ian. •

PM Boc to his Croatian counterpart: Romania sustains Croatia’s adhesion to EU

28 ian. •

PM Boc: the media circus created by the opposition parties reveals their intention to stand against justice

28 ian. •

Schengen evaluation group to decide on Friday whether to adopt technical reports for Romania and Bulgaria

27 ian. •

5 new AH1N1 cases confirmed in several cities across Romania

27 ian. •

President Basescu to a Russian Parliamentarian: Please note that Romania has no experience in annexing other states

27 ian. •

Crina Coco Popescu the first alpinist who made the Seven Volcanoes circuit

27 ian. •

Traian Basescu: officially, Romania has 500,000 Roma but in reality there are 1.5 million

25 ian. •

Last minute

Prosecutors started an investigation on Vantu’s hospitalization

25 ian. •

Constitutional Court: Senate’s decision validating the list of the Superior Council of Magistracy members is unconstitutional

25 ian. •

Hungarian Interior minister: Romania is ready to join Schengen, unlike Bulgaria

25 ian. •

Bucharest court postpones Vantu’s trial for February 15 / Judge wants to know how an Austrian cardiologist diagnosed Vantu’s knee cap fracture

25 ian. •

Official: Sorin Ovidiu Vantu hospitalized in Bucharest a day before his new trial term / Peter Husslein, the Austrian gynecologist who signed the medical papers for Vantu: It would be ridiculous to say that his condition can only be treated here

25 ian. •

Romanian TV star Teo Trandafir could be released in 7-10 days

24 ian. •

The only ice church in Romania will be sanctified on Monday

21 ian. •

Court rejects BCR clients’ request to suspend payment of dues and compelled the 88 solicitors to pay 100,000 lei to the bank / Gheorghe Piperea: From now on, I will defend these clients pro bono

21 ian. •

Adhesion to Schengen: Romanian Foreign Affairs minister invites French European Affairs minister in Romania for an evaluation of the real situation

21 ian. •

EPP group demands de-classification of evaluation reports for Romania and Bulgaria

21 ian. •

Interior ministry Schengen department chief: France requested supplementary time to examine SIS/SIRENE report but did not request any information from Romania

21 ian. •

Finland joins France and Germany to oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s adhesion to Schengen

21 ian. •

World Bank approved a 300 million euro installment for Romania

20 ian. •

Germany confirms its veto against Romania and Bulgaria for Schengen

20 ian. •

Traian Basescu: we fulfilled our obligations for Schengen

20 ian. •

Mihai Tanasescu, IMF: the main lesson to be learned from the crisis is to know how to attract private money / An agreement with China cannot cover possible needs to finance the balance of payments

19 ian. •

Bechtel (US), Lavalin Nuclear (Canada) and Atomtechnoprom (Russia) compete for the construction of Cernavoda 3 and 4 reactors

18 ian. •

Economist Intelligence Unit: Romania’s economy will recover slowly in 2011

18 ian. •

AKH doctors: Teo Trandafir feels better she might be moved from Intensive Care in a week

18 ian. •

President Basescu: electoral campaigns of candidates must be paid by the state

18 ian. •

Peter Harrold, WB: The future agreement with Romania will be most probably for two years

18 ian. •

Traian Basescu about the Roma: we will be tougher. We will not pay children aid if parents do not send their children to schools

18 ian. •

Justice minister Predoiu: if the Justice ministry and the Superior Council of Magistracy will collaborate and act together the objectives of the Verification and Cooperation Mechanism will be reached in 2011

18 ian. •

UPDATE Unions and patronages call for the resignation of Labour minister Ioan Botis / PM calls social partners to talks at the Victoria Palace

18 ian. •

29 year old woman died of AH1N1

17 ian. •

Iasi: a 60 year old man diagnosed with AH1N1 died in the hospital

17 ian. •

Romania, on 40th position in provisional UEFA Fair Play

17 ian. •

French knife stabbing Romania’s back. Possible victims: the European Union

17 ian. •

Aeolian energy: EC fears producers in Romania might receive higher subsidies / Investments can exceed 10 billion euro on the long term

14 ian. •

Romanian Interior Ministry: France requested supplementary time to study Romania’s evaluation report for Schengen

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