The brother of former Romanian president Traian Basescu gets four-year prison sentence; French president Francois Hollande to travel to Romania in September.
German chancellor Angela Merkel says Romanian-German economic relations will expand if Romania continues to improve its legal system and fight against corruption.
Parliament declaration asks president Traian Basescu to resign over corruption scandal involving his brother.
Attacked so many times by his political opponents, President Traian Basescu has just received the worst blow from his own brother, arrested for influence peddling. Still, the head of state says he will not resign, as the left-wing power wants him to.
Mircea Basescu, Romanian Presidents brother, was arrested for 30 days in a € 0.25 mln alleged influence trading case.
