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Romanian president Traian Basescu has promulgated a long awaited law meant to simplify and clarify the judicial process,...

The Romanian parliamentary parties are making the last preparations ahead of the censure motion that will be submitted to...

The Moldovan communist rulers left in their wake the poorest European state, and now the Republic of Moldova is in urgent...

The IMF is monitoring companies operating in the fields of road and railway infrastructure, thermal and electric energy and...

Observers of parliamentary life in Romania can safely say that nothing is now impossible in the Romanian Parliament.

The Romanian authorities and the IMF this year agreed on a deficit target of 6.8% of the GDP.

The Romanian foreign minister, Teodor Baconschi, on Tuesday paid an official visit to Spain, as part of a two day Iberian tour.

The meeting of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev and German chancellor Angela Merkel in the...

Romania has known parliamentary democracy for more than two decades now, yet the opposition has only once managed to bring...

After a millennium of historical rivalry and enmity, some 15 years ago Romanian-Hungarian relations embarked on the path to...

Solutions to overcome the economic crisis and a concerted attack on the presidency and the government were some of the...

Six times IBF world champion in the super middleweight category, Lucian Bute won by knock out in the ninth round against US...

Iasi, the most important city close to the Romanian-Moldovan border, on Friday became the first Romanian city outside the...

The reduction of budget spending, which has first and foremost affected the salaries of public sector employees, is just one...

The Romanian natural gas transport system will be connected to the rest of Europe.

There were manifestations of solidarity not only from finance sector workers throughout local offices in the country, but in...

According to farmers, a government rise in the food price by a single digit would lead to a 25% increase in prices.

Property right laws remain ambiguous, placing Romania on the list of countries with the highest number of trials lost at The...

Angela Merkel’s visit comes as a confirmation of Berlin’s wish to continue the positive bilateral diplomatic relations, on an...

Cars industry representatives said that the diminishing purchasing power and the austerity measures taken by the government...

Romania’s President, Traian Basescu, on Thursday surprised everyone by sending back to parliament the controversial law...

Hungarian ecologists told our RRI correspondent in Budapest that the long-term consequences of this unprecedented disaster...

The Romanian President on Thursday called on the presidents of the two chambers of Parliament to agree to the pension law...

South of Hungary, downstream the Danube, Romania is on high alert following the ecological disaster in the neighboring country.

The Republic of Moldova still seems to be plagued by the incompetence of the former Pro-Russian communist regime, in power...

At the Asia – Europe summit in Brussels on Tuesday, European and Asian leaders signed a declaration stressing the need to...

Romanian authorities are keeping a close eye on the quality of the Danube waters following the spill of toxic sludge caused...

The Social Democratic Party’s president Victor Ponta, whose political party now has 40% of the voting intentions, said that...

In urban areas, household incomes are salary-based in over 60% of the cases while in rural areas it drops to 30%.

The current condition of Romanian education is perhaps more disappointing than ever.

Romania has once again paid the price for its participation in the operations of the multinational coalition in Afghanistan.

In a interview on the public radio, Education minister Daniel Funeriu said that several measures had been taken to increase...

European Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fule, warned that Brussels would not favour any of its Moldovan dialogue...

Romania has two months to amend its current legislation regarding bird protection.

Prime Minister Emil Boc announced that starting October 1st, the minimum tax on turnover will be eliminated, and up until the...

Vasile Blaga was replaced by Senator Traian Igas, a provincial member of the Liberal Democratic Party,

During her meeting with the public in Bucharest, Muller spoke of her friend Oskar Pastior as a source of inspiration and...

Last week, Bucharest received from the European Commission some 1.15 billion Euros to cover part of the budget deficit.

Police workers gathered on Friday in front of the government building to protest against austerity measures.

After more than a year in opposition, Vladimir Voronin’s Communists seem to fare better in electoral terms, in contrast with...

Many banks issued late notices for customers with loan contracts, the latter being thus left unable to obtain the required...

Bucharest is celebrating. The Romanian capital is now 551 old on paper.

The daily Evenimentul Zilei speculated on what happened behind the scenes of the release of buisnessman Sorin Ovidiu Vantu.

According to all estimates, 2010 may turn out to be the 2nd year in a row that has seen a negative increase.

Unions also demand a nation-wide minimum salary of at least 750 lei (about 175 euros) and the return to the 2009 salaries.

Nabucco, in which Romania is also involved, provides for the transport of gas from the Middle East and Asia to Europe and is...

Borrowers complain about the short time that they have to fill in additional forms, and, in some cases, the fees that banks...

The thorn in Romania’s relationship with France, namely the Roma issue, has become a priority on the European agenda.

Business people believe that in addition to a cut in taxation, public investment is a sure, direct and immediate way of...

In full political deadlock, the ex-Soviet Republic of Moldova has missed its last chance to stabilize after the failure of a...

The first board meeting of the National Bank of Romania was held on September 5th 1880. 130 years on, its current governor...