Social/Politics
Romania To Resume Payment Of Allowances For Anti-Communist Revolutionaries
Romania’s Government will resume the payment of state allowances for revolutionaries and will cut by 10% reparations granted to the descendants of those who died in the December 1898 Revolut...
Ponta Replaces Two Statistics Institute Vice-Presidents
Romanian Premier Victor Ponta discharged Thursday two vice-presidents of the National Statistics Institute, INS.
Government Expected To Amend Referendum Law In Special Meeting
Romania’s Government confirmed it will hold an extraordinary meeting Thursday evening, at local time 18:00, being expected to amend by emergency ordinance the referendum law and settle wheth...
Parliament Convenes Friday To Vote On President Impeachment - Senate Chairman
The Romanian Parliament will assemble Friday, at 17:00 local time, to debate and vote on the request to impeach President Traian Basescu, Senate chairman Crin Antonescu said Thursday.
Romania, U.S. Extend Agreement On Preventing WMD Proliferation
Romania and the United States of America Thursday signed a protocol which extends for seven more years a bilateral agreement signed on March 30, 1998 regarding cooperation in preventing the...
Government Fines Contractors For Delays To Bucharest-Ploiesti Highway Construction
Romania's Government will fine the contractors that are behind schedule on the construction of the Bucharest-Ploiesti highway and transfer the money to healthcare, to benefit people with inc...
Four Dead In Military Helicopter Crash In Eastern Romania
Four people died Thursday as a military training helicopter crashed around noon in an isolated area in eastern Romania, near Buzau.
INS: Average Net Wage Slightly Down To RON1,530 In May
Romanian average net salary fell 1.5% to 1,530 lei (EUR342) in May, from RON1,553 a month earlier, the statistics institute INS said Thursday.
Romania’s Parliament Assembles To Read Out President Impeachment Request
The Romanian Parliament has convened Thursday morning to read out the request to impeach President Traian Basescu.