Romania

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) stood by its estimates of Romania's economic growth in 2014 (2.6 percent) and 2015 (2.8) in a report released on Monday, in which it drastically adjusted down the estimates for its target region.

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The assault rifles used by the Kouachi brothers, who killed 12 people in an attack on Chalie Hebdo's offices in Paris, could have come from Bulgaria and Romania, media reports suggest.

Cherif and Said Kouachi used the AKS-74 Kalashnikov, which have been produced only by these two countries since 1989.

Victor Ponta, Romania's Prime Minister and chairman of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), announced on Monday at the beginning of the sitting of the party's National Standing Bureau, that he intends to address the leaders of the National Liberal Party (PNL) a letter inviting them to jointly sit down to discuss the five themes considered to be essential at this moment - the revision of th

The forthcoming EU Commission report under the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification (CVM), will be more positive for Romania than for Bulgaria, European sources say.

Bucharest should expect a text suggesting improvement in 2014 compared to 2013, according to the information cited by Mediafax and Romania Insider.

Over half a million German citizens visited Romania in 2014, having benefited from tourism services offered by the business operators in this field, said the National Authority for Tourism (ANT) President Simona Allice Man, according to a Monday's press release received by AGERPRES.

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Good governance in Romania includes civil society

NGOs have expertise to assist authorities in the battle against corruption, analysts say.

Romania joined the EU in 2007, and is still facing scrutiny from the Union on corruption. [AFP]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu will attend, on Monday, the reunion of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the European Union (FAC), that will take place in Brussels.

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LONDON - Serbia's best female tennis player Ana Ivanovic kept hold of the fifth place while Jelena Jankovic is 15th in the new WTA rankings published Sunday, ahead of the start of the Australian Open.

Ivanovic has 4,845 and Jankovic 2590 points, while Bojana Jovanovski is back to 56th position with 910 points.

A number of personalities of Romania, the United States of America, France, and Switzerland were decorated, on Sunday, by Princess Margareta, on the occasion of the events held in honor of the anniversary of 25 years since her return to her homeland, among them Frederic Mitterand, the nephew of the former president of France.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta believes the solution to the vote abroad, in the future, is represented by organizing the voting process as it is organized at home, by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and not by the Government.

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