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The hesitations of those not strong enough

May 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Rosca Stanescu did not succeed in breaking USL. It would have been impossible, if at least one of the parties did not firmly wish it. All the ‘happiness’ of the alliance...

Business»

Mechel Campia Turzii resumes work

Mechel Campia Turzii resumes work

May 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Having filed for insolvency in April, Steel maker Mechel Campia Turzii yesterday resumed production and could reach maximum capacity in ten days, company owner Invest Nikarom...

Politics»

Land case: Becali, Babiuc and Cioflina get prison sentences

Land case: Becali, Babiuc and Cioflina get prison sentences

May 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Becali was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and Babiuc and Cioflina to two years. The Court also froze the businessman’s land and other properties, and ordered...

Social»

Football Transfers case sent to the Court  of Appeals for retrial

Football Transfers case sent to the Court of Appeals for retrial

May 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
The ICCJ magistrates decided yesterday to invalidate the ruling previously issued in the case in which eight football world officials were sentenced to jail. “Now everything...

World»

Kidnapped civilians among  39 killed in rash of Iraq violence

Kidnapped civilians among 39 killed in rash of Iraq violence

May 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
BAGHDAD – A barrage of car bombings and shootings across Iraq left at least 32 people dead, authorities said Monday, according to CNN.It’s the latest spate of violence...

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Land case: Becali, Babiuc and Cioflina get prison sentences

Becali was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and Babiuc and Cioflina to two years. The Court also froze the businessman’s land and other properties, and ordered him to pay pecuniary damages. Businessman Gigi Becali last night was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and disqualification from certain civil rights for a period of five [...]

Kidnapped civilians among 39 killed in rash of Iraq violence

BAGHDAD – A barrage of car bombings and shootings across Iraq left at least 32 people dead, authorities said Monday, according to CNN.It’s the latest spate of violence plaguing the country amid heightened sectarian strife.At least nine people were killed and 37 others wounded when two car bombs exploded Monday in a pair of neighborhoods, [...]

Mechel Campia Turzii resumes work

Having filed for insolvency in April, Steel maker Mechel Campia Turzii yesterday resumed production and could reach maximum capacity in ten days, company owner Invest Nikarom notes in a press release. Invest Nikarom says Mechel Campia Turzii has the necessary raw material in stock and that all the goods will be produced have been pre-ordered. [...]

Football Transfers case sent to the Court of Appeals for retrial

The ICCJ magistrates decided yesterday to invalidate the ruling previously issued in the case in which eight football world officials were sentenced to jail. “Now everything restarts, the expertise is conducted, the witnesses are heard, everything, it could last another 3-4 years,” LPF President Dumitru Dragomir stated. A coup de theatre took place in the [...]

Mario Vargas Llosa: I’m grateful that I have been invited to Romania

The writer, who arrived in Romania on Sunday, played for five minutes in his play “1001 Nights” at Cluj National Theater. On his arrival in Cluj, Sunday, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa said he was “very grateful” he had been invited to Romania, adding he was glad to have been translated in a country with [...]

Suspended mayor of Ramnicu Valcea, Emilian Francu, formally charged in court

The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) yesterday formally charged with bribe taking the suspended mayor of Ramnicu Valcea, Emilian Francu, who is on remand now. According to the accusation document, at the beginning of the year the municipality of Ramnicu Valcea awarded to an architecture company a project named “Reorganisation and arrangement of the central public [...]

PM Ponta sends the mandate for European Council to the president

Based on an agreement with the president, Victor Ponta will head the Romanian delegation to EC in Brussels to discuss two major subjects: energy and fight against tax evasion in EU. It will practically be the PM’s first fully lawful participation in the European Council after June 2012, when he did go to Brussels in spite [...]

USL protocol to be renegotiated, PNL expected to show solidarity

The leaderships of PSD and PNL met yesterday at noon, in separate meetings, in order to discuss the latest events concerning USL, while the meeting agreed by USL leaders in order to discuss the disagreements that appeared was postponed in order to avoid the continuation of the media scandal, USL sources quoted by Mediafax stated. [...]

INSCOP poll: Isarescu and Ponta, most suitable for president

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania, (BNR) Mugur Isarescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta are the personalities with the highest confidence among Romanians, being also seen as best choices for president of Romania, according to a poll done by INSCOP Research in 20-28 April, quoted by rtv.net. According to the opinion poll, the first [...]

Blaga: PDL does not split

PDL leader Vasile Blaga said yesterday that no forecast made by presidential aide Sebastian Lazaroiu has become true, adding that this – ‘Snow White’ – should be ignored. He made the statement after Lazaroiu warned that a group might split from PDL. PDL president Vasile Blaga said yesterday that PDL will not split, that he had [...]