Romania

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday evening began an official visit to Israel.

At a joint meeting on Monday, the standing bureaus of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate approved a proposal put forth by Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu that Parliament adopt a joint declaration calling on President Traian Basescu for honorary resignation.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Titus Corlatean, on Tuesday and Wednesday will participate in the meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, to be held at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

Turkey’s Marsel İlhan starts his Wimbledon campaign with a first round game against Denis Kudla of the United States today.

The 27-year-old player is having his second appearance in the first round of the men’s competition in tennis’ third Grand Slam. He overcame the qualifying round last week.

Romania at present arguably benefits from one of the best private consultant teams, whom any government in the world might wish, the High Representative of the Romanian Government for Strategic Economic Projects and Public Diplomacy, Mircea Geoana told an international conference unveiling the Model Highway Initiative - MHI on Monday.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said after the ruling coalition meeting on Monday that the parliamentarians of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) will vote for a political declaration by which the speakers of the two chambers of Parliament, at a joint sitting of the Romanian legislature on Wednesday, will ask President Traian Base

Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea announced on Monday that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China will fund the projects agreed by the Romanian and Chinese prime ministers a year ago, with the first investments to be made in a coal-based heating plant at Rovinari and the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant's units 3 and 4.

BELGRADE - The short story festival Kikinda Short 09 will take place in five cities and three countries from July 2 to 5, and gather 20 authors from 14 countries who will read their stories to the audiences in Kikinda, Szeged, Timisoara, Zrenjanin and Belgrade, announced the festival organizer, Kikinda Short association.

Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Titus Corlatean, on Sunday had a meeting with the Chairman of the Labour Party in Israel and the leader of the opposition in the Knesset, Isaac Herzog, in the context of the former's visit to Israel, during which meeting the two high officials reviewed the current stage of the excellent bilateral relations between the two countries, uninterru

A court in Bucharest ruled that Mircea Basescu, the president’s younger brother, should be remanded in custody for 30 days for allegedly taking a 250,000 euro bribe from a relative of convicted underworld boss Sandu Anghel. 

Prosecutors allege that he received the money through a middleman in exchange for a promise to intervene to secure Anghel’s release.