Editorial»

G-8, Germany and growth

May 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
A dossier of maximum importance for the future of the international system of states was opened last week. The G-8 summit took place at Camp David on Saturday. The meeting...
  • TB alert
    In his famous novel ‘Barefoot,’ prominent Romanian writer Zaharia Stancu (1902-1974) has a terrible fragment:...
    by mihai.iordanescu on May 20th, 2012 at 9:00 PM
  • Technical recession, theoretical upturn
    Romania is in technical recession from a statistical point of view. This is not any big news, as most analysts...
    by victor.lupu on May 17th, 2012 at 9:00 PM
  • Fighting the chaos
    Until yesterday in power, today they ally themselves with occasional partners like the Roma Party or the Greens....
    by catalin.bogdan on May 16th, 2012 at 9:00 PM

Business»

EIU: Romania might postpone the adoption of the euro until 2016 or 2017

May 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Romania might postpone the adoption of the European single currency until 2016 or 2017, as the current target will be revised by the government formed after the elections...

Politics»

At Chicago, NATO makes headway in setting up missile-defence system

At Chicago, NATO makes headway in setting up missile-defence system

May 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Basescu said once Deveselu missile shield components become operational, part of Romania and SEE will be protected. President Traian Basescu announced on Sunday, after taking...

Social»

Gov’t could change public employee working hours

May 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Public employees could soon have a new work schedule, as PM  Victor Ponta would have all the public employees start work at 9:00 am and leave home at 5:00 pm. “This is...

World»

Tomislav Nikolic beats Boris Tadic in Serbia run-off

Tomislav Nikolic beats Boris Tadic in Serbia run-off

May 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic has been elected president of Serbia, with liberal incumbent Boris Tadic admitting defeat soon after polls closed. Mr Nikolic has 50.21% of the...

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At Chicago, NATO makes headway in setting up missile-defence system

Basescu said once Deveselu missile shield components become operational, part of Romania and SEE will be protected. President Traian Basescu announced on Sunday, after taking part in the North Atlantic Council’s Summit in Chicago, that NATO has declared an interim missile defence capability. “This means that the Alliance has not yet attained its goal of [...]

PM exposed huge fraud with EU funds

Romania risks losing over EUR 1bln if Brussels decides to suspend payments. Premier holdsresponsible former PDL Labour ministers. They deny any wrongdoings. Prime Minister Victor Ponta said major irregularities had been identified with respect to the implementation of the Human Resource Development Sector Operational Programme (POSDRU) in 2010 and 2011. Ponta told a joint press [...]

Interdiction to sell farmland to foreigners difficult to achieve

European Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos will support such a request from Romania in the EU council The extension of the interdiction to sell agricultural land to foreigners after 2014 is a request that cannot be granted, the Minister of European Affairs, Leonard Orban, said during the conference on the Common Agricultural Policy conference in Bucharest yesterday, [...]

USL, ready to amend pure uninominal bill in the Chamber of Deputies

PDL says it will table own amendments. Premier Victor Ponta yesterday said he took note of the ‘’well-grounded and earnest’’, and “not political-minded”  criticism leveled by the civil society and made the point that the Social Liberal Union (USL) will support at the Chamber of Deputies Law Commission debates the amendments “able to straighten up [...]

Tennis: Nadal regains Rome Masters title

Rafael Nadal regained the Rome Masters crown from Novak Djokovic with a 7-5 6-3 victory on Monday, according to Eurosport.The win also returned the Spaniard to No.2 in the world rankings after Roger Federer displaced him a week ago. It is the second win in a row for Nadal over Djokovic after seven straight losses [...]

Tomislav Nikolic beats Boris Tadic in Serbia run-off

Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic has been elected president of Serbia, with liberal incumbent Boris Tadic admitting defeat soon after polls closed. Mr Nikolic has 50.21% of the vote, against 46.77% for Mr Tadic, with 40% of votes counted, BBC reported. On the other hand, according to Mediafax, quoting AFP, Nikolic has won by 49.55 per cent [...]

Parliament asked to decide who will represent Romania at the European Council

PDL claims that Ponta and USL are provoking the chief of state, seeking pretexts to suspend him. Ponta explained that the agenda of the European Council includes topics that pertain to the activity of the Executive, so he believes that Romania should be represented by its prime minister. According to the premier, the Constitution does not stipulate [...]

NGOs protest against longer interval of detention without warrant

Representatives of the civil society protest against the proposal of extending the maximum interval of detention without warrant from 24 to 48 hours, as this measure is decided by Police and prosecutors, rather than judges – the only independent magistrates. The proposed Constitution amendment that would extend the detention without warrant will be debated today [...]

Gov’t could change public employee working hours

Public employees could soon have a new work schedule, as PM  Victor Ponta would have all the public employees start work at 9:00 am and leave home at 5:00 pm. “This is the premier’s recommendation, towards working hours aligning to the EU norms. While government employees will work from 9 to 5, each institution can [...]

Mihai Toader, former head of Posta Romana, gets six year jail sentence

The Bucharest Tribunal on Monday sentenced Dan Mihai Toader, former general director of Posta Romana (CNPR), to six years in prison, and businessman Maricel Pacuraru to eight years in jail over the employee insurance policy case file, Mediafax reports, along with two more Posta Romana former directors and two administrators of some private companies. The [...]