Adina Panaitescu

The national Parliaments of the B9 member countries have to play a specific role in the defence and security area, as institutions with a specific role, Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Liviu Dragnea stated on the occasion of the B9 Summit at parliamentary level (B9).

The national legislatures of the countries making up the Bucharest Format (B9) have an essential role to play in the equitable sharing of burdens inside NATO, especially because of their specific part in approving budgets to support a more ambitious common defence and security approach, Romania's President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday in the opening speech at the first B9 parliament

The Romanian-Turkmen economic and commercial relationships can register superior results, having the potential to capitalise on the business opportunities though concrete actions, Romanian Minister for Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea and Turkmenistan's Finance and Economy Minister Batyr Bazarov agreed on Monday in Ashgabat.

Several memoranda of understanding between Romania and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including one between the AGERPRES Romanian National News Agency and the WAM Emirates News Agency were signed on Tuesday by the foreign affairs ministers of the two countries, namely Teodor Melescanu and Sultan al Jaber.

Ex-President Ion Iliescu on Tuesday left the Attorney General's Office after about an hour and 30 minutes without making statements to the press. He had been summoned to be informed that he is a subject in criminal investigation of the December 1989 Revolution, standing accused of crimes against humanity.

Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu says Saturday's military action taken by the, the United Kingdom, and France in Syria represents "a firm reaction to the atrocities in Douma," the Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informs.

Melescanu made this statement Monday at a meeting of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Luxembourg.

A team of the Judicial Inspection (IJ) is conducting an audit of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), April 16-20.

Minister of Health Sorina Pintea announced on Monday having called for talks managers of the hospitals where protests take place.

Interior Minister Carmen Dan said on Sunday on her social media page that the headquarters of the Interior Ministry "has come to life through the light creation projected on the building" in the last evening of the Spotlight festival.

The National Institute of Statistics (INS) has assured that "it has not been subjected to any interference or pressure of any kind on from any national authority," arguing that a government decision approved on Thursday under which the institute "is organised and operates as a specialist body of the central public administration under the authority of the government and the co-ordination of the