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Two of the 26 crew members on the British-flagged chemical tanker seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden are Romanians, leader of the Romanian Seafarers' Free Union (SLN) Adrian Mihalcioiu told AGERPRES.According to him, the two Romanians are the dep ...

The government will introduce as of March 1, 2010 a series of cost standards for public infrastructure works, declared Prime Minister Emil Boc.After Tuesday's government sitting, Boc explained that the introduction of new cost regulations would be a ...

According to the draft budget for next year published on the website of the Ministry of Public Finance, the total budget of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) in 2010 will be of 10.86 billion lei (about 2.76 billion euros), by 7.39 perce ...

The Romanian health care system in in danger to collapse in 2010, in case the authorities will not allocate at least 4.5 percent of the GDP, says director of consultancy company for pharmaceutical industry Cegedim Petru Craciun.He maintains that, in the ...

Wreaths were laid in a ceremony on Tuesday at the Monument to the heroes of December 1989 raised in Revolution Square, in downtown capital.The wreaths were laid by Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana, Deputies' Chamber Speaker Roberta Anastase, the partic ...

Teodor Baconschi, proposed Minister of Foreign Affairs, has recently said that he would do 'anything that seems rational and reasonable' to relaunch the country's relationship with Russia, for in his opinion Romania 'should analyse in a ...

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday signed the decree on the submission to Parliament of the Agreement between the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian Republic, Romania and the Republic of Turkey regarding the Nabucco P ...

Forty gendarmes tragically killed during the events in December 1989 at Henri Coanda ‘Otopeni' International Airport, near Bucharest were remembered in a ceremony at the Monument of the Gendarmes Heroes raised near the airport, on Wednesday.&# ...

An exhibition titled ‘20 years - The Memory - One Hour', including pictures taken on December 21 and 22, 1989, and also 20 years later, in the same locations,was mounted on Wednesday, for only one hour, at the artesian well in the University S ...

 The U.S. Ambassador to Bucharest His Excellency Mark Gitenstein, together with other members of his family, on Wednesday participated in the Izvoarele commune (Giurgiu County, southern Romania), in a volunteer action, aimed at building a house to ...

The ceremony during which the new Cabinet headed by Emil Boc was sworn in took place on Wednesday, at the Cotroceni Palace, President Traian Basescu attending.The Government proposed by Premier Designate Emil Boc was invested on Wednesday by Parliament ...

The new government headed by Prime Minister Emil Boc starts under tougher conditions than the previous line-up because at this moment one knows exactly what the economic crisis has in store for the Romanians, President Traian Basescu declared on Wednesd ...

The Bucharest - Cernavoda (A2) Highway, also known as the Sun Highway, was closed on Friday morning, due to the snowfalls and blizzard, the Winter Command of the Transport Ministry announced.Likewise, the Bucharest-Pitesti (A1) Highway (northwest of Buc ...

Special Agerpres correspondent Irinel Mica reports: Romania aims at uncoupling its economic growth from the level of greenhouse gas emissions, Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday stated, at the high-level United Nations climate change conferen ...

The commemorative exhibition '20 years since the Romanian Revolution' has been inaugurated on Friday, December 18, 2009, in the University Square subway arcade.The exhibition will be open to Bucharest people over December 18-25 and will present ...

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) will not vote for the Emil Boc Government or the proposed ministers, PSD chairman Mircea Geoana announced after a meeting of the party's National Executive Committee on Friday.He said the Social Democrats will not e ...

Union's Representatives Council (CRU) of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), met Friday in Targu Mures (center), decided in unanimity to share the governance with the Democrat Liberal Party (PD-L).UDMR President Marko Bela stated t ...

American State secretary Hillary Clinton addressed a congratulations message to the Romanian people for their democratic regime in the past two decades, after the Revolution in December 1989.'Twenty years ago, on December 17, 1989, the people of Rom ...

The Democratic Liberal Party's (PD-L) Steering College approved in a majority vote at its meeting on Friday the list of the PD-L ministers to be part of the Emil Boc cabinet.According to Democratic Liberal vice president Gheorghe Flutur, they are as ...

Two more deaths caused by the new flu (A/H1N1 pandemic virus) were recorded in the past 24 hours, and 55 more cases of people were confirmed with the new flu, the Public Health Ministry informs on Sunday.Out of the total cases confirmed in the said peri ...