Social/Politics
Development Ministry 2012 Budget Approved By Parliament Committees
The Romanian Parliament’s finance and budget committees on Friday approved with 36 to three votes the 2012 budget of the Ministry of Tourism and Development, of 3.45 billion lei (EUR795 mill...
Foreign Affairs Ministry: No Knowledge Of Secret CIA Prisons In Romania
Romanian authorities have no information showing Romania hosted CIA secret detention centers on its territory, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Doris Mircea told a news conference Frida...
Parliament Finance Committees OK Draft 2012 State Budget
The Romanian Parliament’s budget and finance committees on Friday approved with 20 to ten votes and two abstentions the draft state budget for next year.
Government Wants More Flexible Approach To Regulation Freezing Public Sector Hiring
Romania’s Government wants a more flexible approach to the rule whereby only one in seven vacant public sector positions may be filled next year, with a view to applying it at a higher level...
Romania To Cut Co-Financing Rate For EU-Funded Projects By 10 Pps
The Romanian Government wants to temporarily reduce the national co-financing rate for EU-funded projects by 10 percentage points, based on a new EU regulation which increased the European c...
Parliament Committees Approve Romania's 2012 Social Security Budget
Romania’s parliamentary committees on Friday approved the country’s 2012 social security budget, which total s 44.132 billion lei (EUR10 billion), according to Labor Minister Sulfina Barbu.
Amnesty International Urges Romania To Come Clean Over Secret CIA Prison
The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centers on its territory after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German newspaper, Amnesty Int...
Parliament Finance Committees OK Intelligence Services’ 2012 Budget
The Romanian Parliament’s budget and finance committees on Thursday approved the 2012 budgets of intelligence services in the format proposed by the Government.
Presidential Administration’s 2012 Budget Approved By Parliament Finance Committees
The Romanian Parliament’s budget and finance committees on Thursday adopted the 2012 budget of the Presidential Administration in the format proposed by the Government.