Romania

„Dar Ţările Baltice şi Moldova nu aparţin Uniunii Sovietice!..” (Margaret Thatcher, „Le Figaro”, 29 august 1990) Frontiera euroatlantică a ajuns la Prut şi există riscul să rămână acolo, cel puţin pentru încă o generaţie. „Revoluţiile colorate” au fost un proiect generos şi substanţial, dar consecinţele nu au fost cele aşteptate. …

On the whole, the Romanian Government is preparing to open 294 polling stations abroad – one hundred more than at the previous elections. For the Romanian presidential elections of November 22, the Republic of Moldova will open 13 polling stations in its territory. Until now, this republic used to permit …

Romanian President Traian Basescu has nominated respected economist Lucian Croitoru for the office of prime minister, having rejected the candidate proposed by opposition parties. “We need a person with experience in dealing with banks and international economic and financial institutions,” Basescu said, adding: “Mr. Croitoru is also politically independent and …

China and Romania held a reception here on Wednesday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties. Hailing the two countries’ traditional friendship of cooperation, Chen Haosu, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said China and Romania had enjoyed deepening cultural, economic …

Romanian opposition parties agreed on Wednesday to nominate the mayor of Sibiu, Klaus Johannis, for the prime minister’s office, following Tuesday’s collapse of the Democratic Liberal government. The Social Democratic Party, PSD, Liberals, PNL, and ethnic Hungarian UMDR party were unanimous in deciding to put their collective political weight behind …

The Institute for European Civil Rights from Bucharest expressed its conviction that the Constitutional Court will remove this unconstitutional article. The High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania asked the Constitutional Court to deal with an exception in the Law on Romanian Nationality, which limits the number of applications …

The chairman of the Azerbaijani Constitutional Court will visit Romania. The visit of the delegation headed by Farhad Abdullayev will last on Oct 14-16, the Constitutional Court said. The Chairman of the Romanian Constitutional Court, Ioan Vida invited Abdullayev to attend the 15th meeting of the constitutional court judges of …

An important thing in reestablishing the Moldovan-Romanian diplomatic relations is the appointment of new ambassadors in Chisinau and Bucharest, considers Eugen Revenco, program coordinator at the Foreign Policy Association.

Romania is interested in the South Stream project, Aleksei Miller, the head of Russia’s Gazprom said October 8. There were no talks conducted with Romania on the subject before. If Bucharest agrees, Russia will obtain more opportunities to implement the vital project. “It goes about the opportunity to build a …

Romania and Bulgaria want to build two new hydroelectric power plants together, Romanian deputy economy minister Tudor Serban said. A cooperation memorandum for the project will be signed “within a month”, he added.