Editorial»

Who is responsible?

May 22nd, 2013 at 9:00 PM
We are living restless times, as we notice sentences announced one after another, most of them puzzling. The international press agencies are commenting, almost in the same...

Business»

Three companies buy CFR Marfa tender book

Three companies buy CFR Marfa tender book

May 22nd, 2013 at 9:00 PM
The Economy Ministry is looking for an investor with which to form an association at Cuprumin, the company no longer being privatized in the following years according to Minister...

Politics»

Ponta promises to keep energy prices  tolerable for consumers, industry alike

Ponta promises to keep energy prices tolerable for consumers, industry alike

May 22nd, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Victor Ponta participated at the Extraordinary Summit of the European Council in Brussels yesterday, under a mandate assigned by President Traian Basescu. Energy and crackdown...

Social»

Consumers prefer Milka, Nokia, Adidas, Dacia or Nivea

May 22nd, 2013 at 9:00 PM
For Romanians, products and companies such as Milka, Nokia, Adidas, Dacia or Nivea are best examples and typical symbols of the best price-quality ratio (best value for money)...

World»

Kerry to address Syrian opposition supporters

Kerry to address Syrian opposition supporters

May 22nd, 2013 at 9:00 PM
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to meet in Jordan Wednesday with top diplomats from ten other nations as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria’s civil...

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Three companies buy CFR Marfa tender book

The Economy Ministry is looking for an investor with which to form an association at Cuprumin, the company no longer being privatized in the following years according to Minister Varujan Vosganian. Three companies have so far bought the tender book in the process of privatizing CFR Marfa, Transportation Minister Relu Fenechiu stated yesterday at a [...]

Ponta promises to keep energy prices tolerable for consumers, industry alike

Victor Ponta participated at the Extraordinary Summit of the European Council in Brussels yesterday, under a mandate assigned by President Traian Basescu. Energy and crackdown on fraud and tax evasion were the main topics at the summit. In a press statement from Brussels last night, after the European leaders’ meeting, the Romanian premier said that [...]

Literature – a chance for romance and civism

While in Cluj to be awarded the doctor honoris causa degree of the Babes-Bolyai University, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa continued the public dialogue started eight years ago with his Romanian publisher, philosopher Gabriel Liceanu. Carried out at the Faculty of Letters (and video broadcast to an amphitheater chockfull of philology students, and the rain-threatened [...]

Romania, economic growth of minimum 2 pc in 2013

Stepping up GDP to 2.1 pc year on year is good news, supporting  growth estimates of at least 2 pc for the whole year, significantly upwards of the European Commission, IMF and EBRD forecasts of 1.6 pc and 1.4 pc respectively, according to a X Trade Brokers (XTB) Romania analysis released to the press yesterday. [...]

UEFA: Rapid faces three-season exclusion from all European competitions

Romanian League 1 club FC Rapid Bucuresti have been fined Euro 100,000 and are excluded from participating in the next UEFA club competition for which the club would qualify in the next three seasons (i.e. 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16), the UEFA Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) decided on Wednesday, according to uefa.com. The UEFA Club Financial [...]

Kerry to address Syrian opposition supporters

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to meet in Jordan Wednesday with top diplomats from ten other nations as part of a U.S.-Russian push to end Syria’s civil war, the Voice of America reports. Kerry was due to address the Friends of Syria, a group of countries that back the Syrian opposition, as [...]

Antonescu admits: “There is the risk of faults in USL”

The PNL leader said Tuesday evening on Realitatea TV that, if he becomes president of Romania, he will appoint Traian Basescu as premier, if he is nominated by the party or alliance that will win the elections. PNL president Crin Antonescu said Tuesday evening that there is “the risk of faults” in USL which pertain [...]

Who is responsible?

We are living restless times, as we notice sentences announced one after another, most of them puzzling. The international press agencies are commenting, almost in the same pattern that through the court decisions Romania is struggling to improve the image of justice in view of the next Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) report expected in [...]

CC: Modifications to the statute of military personnel are constitutional

The judges of the Constitutional Court rejected the complaint in which PDL senators protested against the exceeding of the framework of the reexamination request filed by the chief of state. The Constitutional Court (CC) yesterday upheld – with unanimity of votes – as constitutional the modifications to Law 80/1995 on the statute of military personnel, [...]

Arges County: suspicions of electoral fraud in the 2012 local elections

The searches targeted even the home and office of PDL mayor Florin Fratica. The suspects were to be taken for questioning at the Pitesti Tribunal. Several searches targeted yesterday morning the mayor’s office of Bradu, Arges County, over suspicions of electoral fraud in the local elections of June 2012. The office and the home of [...]