Romania

President Klaus Iohannis signed on Tuesday the decree appointing Daniel-Constantin Horodniceanu to the position of chief prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) for a three-year term, the Presidential Administration announced.

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Airbus has announced it intends to build helicopters at a new plant at Ghimbav, close to the central Romanian city of Brasov, in an investment worth about 40 million euro.

The plant is to be built on a 27,000-square-metre plot offered by IAR Ghimbav, a company controlled by the Romanian state.

Former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) George Maior on Tuesday got the okay of the Houses' Joint Foreign Policy Committees for the position of Ambassador of Romania to the United States.

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Maior's bid earned 18 favorable votes, one vote against and one abstention.

The Greek Eurovision team is in Austria about to draw “One Last Breath” with its entry for Greece. There will be a direct link from the Stadthalle in Vienna so that Greek audiences can enjoy Maria Elena Kyriakou at the semi-finals of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest at 11 p.m. on Tuesday with hopes that she’ll make her way to the finals on Saturday.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday that he will not sign off proposed changes to the criminal code as "the changes are not in the MPs's own interests".

Romanians are confident in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) the most, and then in the United Nations Organisation (UN) and the European Union, as regards the international bodies, an INSCOP research released on Tuesday says.

US and Bulgarian military personnel began an exercise in the host country of Romania on May 18, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.

Exercise Platinum Eagle 2015 is a multinational exercise at Babadag Training Area, Romania, designed to demonstrate the capabilities of NATO allies in Eastern Europe, Warren said, as cited by the US Department of Defense.

Approximately 700,000 hectares of forest in Romania are currently concerned by Article 20 of the draft Forestry Act, which requires forest management as a condition to harvest more than three cubic meters of wood per hectare and per year; approximately 420,000 hectares of such areas are owned by small proprietors and thus most exposed to illegal clearing, the Ministry of Environment, Waters and

National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa on Monday participated in the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council and in the works of the Steering Board of the European Defence Agency, on which occasion he said that, in the current security context, "the cooperation with the North Atlantic Alliance is the development of military capabilities area is very important."

Qatar is interested in investment in the future Unit 7 of Bulgaria's Kozloduy power plant, according to a statement from the Bulgarian government's press office.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov met with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani as part of his visit to Qatar.