Chisinau

Thursday proved a very productive night for two of the three Greek teams performing in the Europa League as Panathinaikos and Asteras Tripolis secured vital wins in the first legs of their playoff ties.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta at the Government meeting on Tuesday announced he will pay a visit to the Republic of Moldova next week and requested the check-up of all the support projects that Romania carries out for this country.

Belgrade airport among fastest growing in Europe

BELGRADE -- Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport is the second fastest growing capital city airport in Europe with the passenger growth of 32 percent.

This data was released by the European airport trade body, ACI Europe, in its report for the first half of 2014.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Tuesday, on the Tuzla Airdrome, after having visited the Ocean Endeavour rig whereby ExxonMobil and Petrom are carrying out gas exploration drills in the Romanian Black Sea deepwater, that "in three to four years" Romania and Moldova must be as little as possible dependent on gas imports.

*The joint National Political Bureau of the ACL Christian Liberal Alliance of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) on Monday designated PNL's national leader Klaus Iohannis ACL's presidential candidate.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Thursday that he will travel to Chisinau this August to inaugurate the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline, alongside his Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca.

The ratification by the Romanian and the Moldovan Parliament of the Association Agreement of the European Union with the Republic of Moldova represents a "historic moment," Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Wednesday.

The signing of the EU-Republic of Moldova Association Agreement represents the fulfillment of an effort that took us ten years, Romanian President Traian Basescu on Friday stated in Brussels, where he participates in the meeting of the European Council, at the level of heads of state or government.

He spoke about the huge efforts made by the government in Chisinau.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Titus Corlatean, on Tuesday received the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Moldova that participated in the last couple of days in Bucharest in the 4th meeting of the Joint Romanian-Moldovan Parliamentary Committee for European Integration, occasion on which he congratulated the authorities in Chisinau for their progress made in the European