The announcement of the American Investment Bank J.P. Morgan that it will include Romania in the banks Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets has boosted the national currency, which was already on an ascending path.
The Romanian Government plans to slash the VAT on basic foodstuffs and to increase the national minimum salary.
On January 17th, the Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean will attend a special meeting of the EU External Affairs Council, devoted to the crisis in Mali.
A joint delegation of the IMF, the European Commission and the World Bank is in Bucharest for a new assessment of Romanias precautionary agreement with those financial institutions.
Romanian Health Minister, Eugen Nicolaescu, has announced that private hospitals will no longer get public money, and county hospitals will no longer be subordinated to local officials.
After 4 years marked by austerity, the new Romanian cabinet claims its 2013 budget will introduce discipline in public finance.
After a 3-week break students and children are back to schools and kindergartens for the 2nd semester of this school year.
By the end of this month the European Commission is due to make public a new report on the Romanian judiciary, which is key to Romania's Schengen accession.
Addressing social injustice, applying fiscal rules for everybody and stopping wasting the public money are some of the elements of budgetary discipline the government announced for 2013.
The executive in Bucharest has passed an ordinance allowing town halls to raise taxes and duties by 16%.
The League of Romanian Students Abroad awarded its prizes for academic excellence in the 2011-2012 academic year, as part of a special gala hosted by Bucharest on Tuesday evening.
A delegation of the Venice Commission came to Bucharest for talks with the Romanian authorities, as they are to draw up a report on the constitutional situation in this country.
The Strategic Partnership between Bucharest and Washington and the anti-missile shield were high on the agenda of talks between Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the NATO ministerial meeting in Brus
Political migration from one party to another, stimulated by the upcoming local elections, keeps changing the balance of power in the Romanian Parliament. The most affected is the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has been deserted by dozens of membe
Romanian wrestlers, either competing in the Greco-Roman contests or in the freestyle events, are no longer among the worlds elite nowadays. The situation was entirely different two decades ago, when wrestlers from Romania, particularly in Greco-Roman sty
