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The natural gas imports from Russia will return to normal levels on Thursday, but we cannot know what will happen from Friday, Romanian Minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu declared. "I do not rule out that this on-off cut game should continue," he added.

Obama administration officials will hold briefings this week and next for members of the U.S. Congress as the president makes his case for an offensive against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, congressional aides said on Sept. 9.

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Monday stated that the liberal and conservative groups in the Deputies Chamber and the Senate have unanimously voted in support of his proposal to suspend President Traian Basescu from office.

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Monday announced that he took the first steps into suspending from office the incumbent head of state.

'We began efforts to present the leaders of the parliamentary groups of the Senate and the Deputies' Chamber the initiative on suspending Romania's President,' Tariceanu told a press conference at the Palace of Parliament.

Instead of moving towards stabilization and normalcy, the situation in Ukraine seems to drift from bad to worse, Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said at the end of his meeting this Thursday with Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maia Pandjikidze.

The lawmakers of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, made up of the opposition National Liberals PNL and Democratic Liberals PDL) sent a letter to the Venice Commission relating a government executive order regarding the mayors, asking the Commission to voice a public position on this case, a release to AGERPRES says on Thursday.

Alexandru Giboi, Managing Director of National News Agency AGERPRES, informed on Tuesday the Senate Committee on Culture that in mid-2014 the institution's revenues were by approximately 10 per cent higher compared to the same period of the year before, voicing at the same time his belief that the agency is among Romania's top mass media outlets as regards the quality of the journ

Chairman of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor believes that Romania needs a new Constitution and stated that the Constitutional Court of Romania's (CCR) ruling regarding the Constitution revision project shows that "there is no use to just patch up the Constitution".

Chairman of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Hunor Kelemen said he was "basically reluctant" about the draft ordinance concerning the local elected officials, although he added the subject could be discussed "provided that there are enough arguments".

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday said that the economic and social measures 'the Senate will adopt today' gave a very good signal, reminded, in context, about the 5 percentage points CAS (social insurance contribution) cut for employers and the three laws 'of a social reparative nature,' referring to tax amnesties for teachers, pensioners and mothers.