Adina Panaitescu

The Government is prepared to manage any of the possible scenarios related to the development of Brexit negotiations, Romania's Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu stated on Wednesday at the expert debate called "Brexit, where to? Prospects of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union and the implications for Romania."

AGERPRES National News Agency on Wednesday became a member of the National Committee of the Live Skills European project, initiated by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme, alongside the Culture & Mass Media Federation FAIR - MediaSind, the British Council and other partners from Bulgaria, Greece and the UK.

The National News Agency AGERPRES concluded on Wednesday a partnership agreement with the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in order to establish, implement and disseminate information and activities dedicated to history and understanding of the Holocaust.

Fired Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura-Codruta Kovesi had a crucial role in the progress made by Romania with the rule of law and the fight against corruption, and France attributes great importance to the irreversibility of those reforms, the spokesman for the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs says.

Romania's inflation rate stood at 5.4 percent in June 2018, slightly declining by 0.01 percentage points compared to the previous month (5.41 percent) due to a 3.86-percent increase in prices for food, a 7.82-percent increase in non-food prices and a 2.58-percent increase in service fees, according to the data published on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila presented, within a meeting in Brussels with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, "the latest developments in respect to the reform and the amendments of the judicial system of Romania."

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila had a meeting with Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, on Tuesday, in the context of her working visit to Brussels, with the agenda of the discussions including the Common Agricultural Policy and the situation regarding swine fever and the floods Romania has been confronted with.

Romania's 5G communications national strategy will be completed by the end of 2018, while the implementation of this technology in Romania will bring about 9 billion US dollars in total investment over the next eight years in energy and utilities, public security, financial services and healthcare, Minister of Communications and Information Society Bogdan Cojocaru told AGERPRES on Tuesd

The trade balance deficit went up 12.3 percent in the first five months of 2018 as against the similar period of 2017, to over 5 billion euro, a release of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday informs.

At a meeting with representatives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) on Monday, Secretary of State for Euro-Atlantic Bilateral and Strategic Affairs George Ciamba with Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) reconfirmed Romania's constant commitment to tackling discrimination, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.