The government in Bucharest believes that the pay rises and the scrapping of various taxes passed by Parliament will have a bad impact on the budget.
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The worlds largest laser, currently under construction at the platform in Magurele, near Bucharest, is scheduled to be ready by 2019, and is expected to generate substantial benefits in fields like medicine, pharmacy, astrophysics and nuclear physics.
Until not long ago, convictions, in particular in big corruption cases, did not seem to be enough to carry out justice. Now, the authorities want to do more, namely to recover in full the damages caused in these cases.
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Poverty is the result of corruption, Romanian PM Dacian Ciolos told a debate on a program drafted by his cabinet in an effort to curb poverty/MPs adopted the simple motion “Lies can kill, too filed by the Social Democrats against the justice minister
Slovak president Andrej Kiska pays a two-day state visit to Romania as of Monday/ Over 100 young IT professionals are currently developing software and computer programs to the benefit of citizens and public administration
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis met in Bucharest with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini/ A ceremony was held in Romania to mark the arrival of the first six F-16 fighter jets purchased from Portugal
Michel Barnier, the European Commissions Chief Negotiator for Brexit, has visited Romania.
Romania wishes to be a part of the European integration nucleus, says PM Ciolos