Year 2012

aVIDEO Bucharest witnesses most violent street protests...

Romania enters a fourth day of anti-government and anti-presidential demonstrations after a weekend marked by the most intense street violence the country has seen since the miners protests in Bucharest in the nineties. Peaceful protests took place... (0 views)

Bucharest braces for Opposition protest as demonstrations...

Hundreds of people from several cities across Romania were on their way to Bucharest on Thursday for demonstrations to be organized by the Opposition parties later in the day. It is the first official political meeting after popular protests... (0 views)

VIDEO aPHOTO Thousands join anti-presidential,...

Thousands of people were protesting against current president Traian Basescu and his Democratic-Liberal government in central Bucharest on Thursday evening. Two protests started in the afternoon - one organized by the opposition Social Democrats... (0 views)

VIDEO French citizen caught stealing from old woman"s purse...

A French citizen has been arrested after he was caught on camera when stealing from an old Romanian woman"s purse in a supermarket in Unirii Square, downtown Bucharest. The incident took place late afternoon on Saturday, January 21 and was... (0 views)

New Foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu signed into office

Romanian President Traian Basescu signed on Tuesday the decree by which Foreign minister Teodor Baconschi is dismissed from office and the decree by which Cristian Diaconescu is named head of the Romanian diplomacy, the presidential administration... (0 views)

Romanian High Court sentences ex-PM Adrian Nastase to two...

Romanian High Court of Justice magistrates gave former prime minister Adrian Nastase on Monday a 2-year sentence and stripped him of certain rights in a corruption case known locally as the "Quality Trophy" file. In this case, Nastase,... (0 views)

Romania census: Population stands at 1966 level of 19...

Romania has a stable population of 19.042 million people forming 7.1 million households, preliminary results of a census which took place in autumn 2011 show. According to National Statistics Institute data presented on Thursday, there are some 8.5... (0 views)

PM Emil Boc announces Government steps down to "ease social...

Romanian PM Emil Boc announced on Monday he and his government would step down in an attempt to "ease the social tension" and avoid interfering with the "economic stability of the country". He urged politicians to help a new... (0 views)

Ex-ForMin, current Foreign Intelligence chief Mihai Razvan...

Former Foreign minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, who"s been serving as chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service, has been designated new prime minister of Romania following Emil Boc"s withdrawal on Monday. Ungureanu said today that his... (0 views)

PM designate Mihai Razvan Ungureanu presented full list of...

Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, the head of Romania"s foreign intelligence service who was designated to replace Emil Boc at the head of the Government, presented the full list of new ministers on Wednesday. They are due to face parliamentary... (0 views)

Romania"s new Ungureanu government passes Parliament vote...

Romania"s designated prime minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and his proposed team of ministers passed Parliament vote on Thursday. As the opposition had announced it would skip the vote, Ungureanu"s government received the vote of 237... (0 views)

VIDEO Romania"s first satellite Goliat successfully launch...

Goliat, Romania"s first nano-satellite developed by a research consortium led by the Romanian Space Agency, was launched from the Kourou base in French Guyana on Monday morning as part of the first flight of VEGA rocket of the European Space... (0 views)

Iran Ambassador to Romania discusses Middle East tensions...

Iran faces the toughest EU and US economic sanctions for the past several years, the continuation of its nuclear program has amplified tensions between Tehran and the West, the war "word" is more often heard in American media and Western... (0 views)

Razvan Nicolescu, Vice-President ACER: I would like to...

Razvan Nicolescu, Vice-President of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, says in an interview he will run for a new term "only if one of the 8 members of the board nominates me".Rep: Mr Nicolescu, is it true that... (0 views)

A HotNews.ro Exclusive. Valhalla Resources - the mystery...

A tender for the privatization of Romanian company Cupru Min has been won officially by Canadian company Roman Copper Inc., but the whole process came to a standstill over the past several days, with Roman Copper saying it was trying to push for a... (0 views)