Unprecedentedly high political tensions are reported in the neighbouring Republic of Moldova ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections
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Syria, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova have dominated the agenda of Monday's EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels
The emergency decree levying additional taxes on banks and energy companies will be debated in Parliament this week.
A look at the most important events of the past week.
The agenda of the Romanian Parliament is dominated this week by the discussion of the 2019 budget bill
Romanias central bank announced that under its monetary policy it would maintain the interest rate at 2.5% per year
Parliamentary elections are scheduled for February 24 in the neighbouring Republic of Moldova, a former Soviet state with a predominantly Romanian speaking population
Romania is included in the list of free countries in the traditional Freedom House report.
The 2019 draft budget has stirred criticism not just from the right-wing opposition, but from within the ruling coalition itself
One of the goals of Romania's Presidency of the Council of the EU is to keep the upcoming European Parliament elections free of fake news and disinformation.
Romanian Agriculture Minister, Petre Daea, has chaired the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting in Brussels
The Romanian Health Ministry will decide this week whether or not to declare a flu epidemic at national level
After a week of strike, the miners from the Oltenia Energy Complex in southern Romania have gone back to work, but the energy market has been disrupted
