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Romania stands to lose at least 40 million euro following Russia’s recent decision to ban food and agriculture imports from the EU, experts say.

Last year, Romania exported 2.3 per cent of its fruit and vegetables production to Russia, worth almost 40 million euro. Most production was exported to EU countries.

Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration Liviu Dragnea assured the mayor of Deveselu (southern Romania) on Wednesday regarding financing for infrastructure projects in the locality.

The Romania-Republic of Moldova joint customs operations led to a decrease in the cigarette smuggling in north-eastern Romania, the Customs General Directorate (DGV) informed on Wednesday. A Novel Research study released on Tuesday had showed that the cigarette black market has been on a rising trend in July 2014, reaching the highest level in the last three years.

Gazprom could consider another route for South Stream if the EU continued to obstruct the construction of the Moscow-backed gas pipeline, a Russian journalist has suggested.

National Liberal Party (PNL) chairman Klaus Iohannis Tuesday evening said in Alba Iulia (central Romania) that the separation of powers must be a reality not a desideratum and the president must have the role of guaranteeing it.

Patriciu, one of the richest people in Romania and a prominent member of the center-right National Liberal Party, PNL, died of liver cancer in London on Tuesday. He was 64.

Romania's Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean said on Tuesday that as regards the situation in the eastern region and the latest developments in Ukraine, Romania's role, as a EU and NATO member state, is praised by its European and Euro-Atlantic partners.