The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the formation of the new Government of the Republic of Moldova and emphasizes that the new ruling line-up is proof of the pro-European political forces' responsibility in the face of the challenge...more »

The Ministry of Interior announced the creation of a National Passengers Information Unit that will process information collected from airlines about passengers of inbound and outbound flights form Romania's airports.   The new unit wil...more »

Implementing NATO Readiness Action Plan, the long term Adaptation Measures with a view to the Summit in Warsaw of 2016 and Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan were the main topics on the discussion agenda. As to the progress in reviewing and optimizing NATO Response Force (NRF), ministerDuşa pointed out that Romania will augment and improve its contribution to NRF, also by identifying forces and capabilities for NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. ...more »

The Dacian Eagle 2015 military exercise continues the tradition of Romanian-American exercises conducted at Campia Turzii and it is designed to increase training and interoperability of the attending personnel....more »

The disorganized central heating system in the big Romanian cities, including Bucharest, is something that needs urgent solving, but at least for now, we don't have a solution that we can use nationwide, says the vice president of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), Emil Calota....more »

President Iohannis sent the National Defence Strategy to the Parliament after the Supreme Council for Country's Defence decided to send it for vote, under the title "A Strong Romania in Europe and in the World" The President also intends to address the Parliament on the matter on June 22 as reported by Agerpress. According to Iohannis, the concept of extended security is one of the main new items in the document....more »

The Senate passed a legislative proposal concerning election to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and the operation of the Standing Electoral Authority initiated by parliamentarians from the Social Democratic Party, the National Union for Romania's Progress, the Conservative Party , the National Liberal Party, the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania and national minorities....more »

Liviu Dragnea announced that he resigned from the position of Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration and will submit its mandate as executive president of the PSD, following the Supreme Court's decision to sentence him to one year of probation prison in the case of fraud in the referendum of 2012 to the dismissal of President Traian Basescu. ...more »

The final version of Romania's operational programme regional development, for which 8.25 billion euros are earmarked in the financial framework 2014-2020, will be submitted to the European Commission this month says Minister of Regional Development Liviu Dragnea. 'We have virtually closed negotiations with Directorate General Regio for operational programme regional development and the final version of the programme will be submitted to the European Commission today or tomorrow, no later than the weekend of May 9, 2015....more »

Romania has sound macroeconomic policies and the country's GDP has returned to the pre-crisis level, states Prime Minister Victor Ponta, citing a set of data from the most recent International Monetary Fund evaluation report. "Some of Romania's macroeconomic strengths (as per the most recent IMF evaluation): it has sound macroeconomic policies in place and the GDP has returned to the pre-crisis level. The healthy fiscal policy has reduced vulnerabilities and the baseline scenario of the evaluation team projects sustained growth that is seen reaching about 3 percent in the medium term," said the Prime Minister....more »