Senate

The Senate's Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Sunday morning, when exiting the polling station where he cast the ballot, that he wants "another Romania", a Romania that "looks to the future".

"My today's vote aims to permanently close a sad page in Romania's history and avoid the risk for this to continue in one form or another.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Association of Managers (SAM) and the Senate of economy of Serbia signed in Belgrade the Memorandum on cooperation with a view to setting up close ties between Serbian, Austrian and German businessmen, improvement of competitiveness and encouragement of investments and exports.

The U.S. Congress will vote in coming days on approving construction of the much-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project Republicans claim is step one in their plan for enhanced U.S. energy production.

The midterm Congressional Elections in the U.S. on Nov. 4 marked a setback for the Obama Administration, as Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 2006.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president with the support of his Social Democrat Party, of the National Union for Romania's Progress and of the Conservative Party, will inaugurate a bridge across the Danube - Black Sea Canal on Thursday.

Senate President Calin Popescu Tariceanu, Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) Chairman, told a press conference in Oradea on Friday that the main danger after the elections was that of seeing Basescu's regime perpetuated or revived in a different shape, through the person of Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) representative Klaus Iohannis.

The Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu says the vote by correspondence will make it easier for the Romanians living abroad to exercise this constitutional right and such a voting system will be probably used in the future.

The Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu sees himself as the most qualified person to become the prime minister of Romania out of those cited by incumbent PM Victor Ponta as his possible successors in the event that he won the Nov. 16 presidential runoff.

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate and bolstered their majority in the House of Representatives as Americans delivered a stinging rebuke to President Barack Obama in elections Nov. 4. Obama now faces the final two years of his presidency contending with a Congress fully controlled by a party that firmly opposes his policies.

Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) leader, on Tuesday announced that he would have a meeting with Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, pointing out that his objective was 'to avoid any risk of Basescu's regime perpetuating through political heirs.'