Odată intrate în Uniunea Europeană, România şi Bulgaria şi-au pierdut avântul de a face reforme pe care-l aveau înainte de aderare, comentează astăzi Financial Times.

Premierul Tăriceanu i s-a plâns preşedintelui Comisiei Europene, Jose Manuel Barroso, că Procuratura nu comunică cu Executivul, argumentând că el a aflat din presă despre anchetarea unor miniştri.

Ungaria priveşte cu preocupare anchetele penale începute împotriva unor membri ai UDMR, printre care şi ministrul Comunicaţiilor, Nagy Zsolt, transmite BBC România.

Transporturile au cerut Guvernului o suplimentare de buget de 450 de milioane lei pentru CFR Călători, după ce Electrica a pus sechestru pe staţii de cale ferată, birouri, clădiri şi anunţă că va sista şi furnizarea energiei electrice pentru trenuri.

Integrated Roma inclusion policies and an efficient use of EU funds are the key conditions for the success of the Decade of Roma Inclusion initiative, representatives of the nine participating countries and international officials agreed in Sofia on Tuesday (June 12th).

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer expressed solidarity Tuesday (June 12th) with Turkey’s fight against terrorism, while also urging Ankara to show “maximum restraint” in dealing with Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq.

TEL AVIV (AFP) — Veteran statesman Shimon Peres was elected president of Israel on Wednesday, finally winning his first vote for top office and crowning a record-breaking career spanning more than half a century.

MALAKAL, Sudan — The pair of white river launches marked with United Nations insignia leapt forward as the sailors opened the throttles, cutting deep trenches into the dark waters of southern Sudan’s Blue Nile.

TEHRAN (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday shrugged off the West’s criticism of Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme and said that eventual new UN sanctions would not harm Iran.

IN A BOLD BLOW to Iraqi hopes for peace, suspected Al Qaeda bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra’s revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, adding new provocation to old wounds a year after the mosque’s golden dome was destroyed.