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Communist MP Grigore Petrenco stated at a press conference on Friday that the convention’s content is a mystery as its text has never been published. “There is absolutely no transparency, we don’t know the provisions, the distances prescribed in the convention, and its beneficiaries”, said Petrenco, adding that he demanded …

Following years of tensions, Romania and the Republic of Moldova moved closer Friday with the signing of several bilateral agreements, officials say.

The official talks on the new agreement with the EU will start on January 12, Moldova’s Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca said in a news conference held in Bucharest after a meeting with his Romanian counterpart Catalin Predoiu. “We hope the new agreement will be called association agreement and when we …

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has left for a two-day working visit to Bucharest on November 13 early morning. During the first half of Friday, he was scheduled to attend a Summit of the heads of government of Central European Initiative (CEI) member countries, during which he is to make a …

„O nouă ordine mondială… nu poate face abstracţie de o „Mare Europă” de la Atlantic la Vladivostok” (Serghei Lavrov şi Franco Frattini) Uniunea Europeană îşi modifică, treptat, profilul. Tratatul de la Lisabona este semnat de toate cele 27 de state membre, iar Comisia Europeană îşi intensifică eforturile pentru ca textul …

Gentiana Serbu was assigned general consult, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Cahul, a recently inaugurated consulate through the decree of the Romanian president. Dumitru-Nicanor Teculescu was assigned general consul, head of the General Consulate of Romania to Balti.

The Central European Initiative (CEI) summit will take place in Bucharest today and tomorrow. The gathering will bring together prime ministers and foreign ministers of the 18 member states, as well as senior representatives of international financial institutions.

The Romanian Parliament on Wednesday adopted legislative amendments that will empower the acting government to draft and ratify laws, crucial to adopting a budget for 2010. Romania’s current political crisis, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Emic Boc last month, has left the country without a government that has …

Romania’s new prime minister-designate Liviu Negoita unveiled his cabinet yesterday in the hope of ending a month-long political crisis, although it has little chance of winning parliamentary approval before a November 22 presidential election. Opposition groupings, which dominate parliament, rejected a previous nominee of President Traian Basescu last week and …

Info-Prim Neo interview with Romanian MEP Sebastian Bodu – How is Moldova regarded in Brussels, especially the democracy in Moldova? – Romania has always been attentive to the changes experienced by Moldova. The April 7 events attracted a lot of attention as there were violated the principles of democracy, the …