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#Romania2019.eu/PM Dancila: Romania approached EU Presidency term as mission in service of European citizens

More than anything else, Romania has approached its term at the Presidency of the Council of the EU as a mission in the service of the European citizens, Premier Viorica Dancila said on Friday evening in her address in the opening of the gala concert of the Romanian Youth Orchestra organised at the Romanian Athenaeum to mark the end of Romania's tenure of the EU Presidency.

EC President Juncker says EC didn't request information on substance of Romania's corruption cases

The European Commission (EC) has never interfered in the management of some individual cases (of corruption) of Romania and the questions included in the letter of October 2012, addressed to the Romanian Ministry of Justice, were meant to help prepare the technical mission of November 2012 without the EU executive requesting information on the cases substance, EC President Jean-Claude Juncker s

PM Dancila sends letter to President Juncker asking for clarifications to EC requests on corruption cases

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Wednesday sent a letter to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, asking him to clarify "the de facto and de jure aspects" related to a letter of the EC from October 2012, sent to the Romanian Justice Ministry in which "concrete, direct" demands can be found regarding certain criminal cases and certain people under criminal investigation for

Prince Caught up in Romanian Fraud Probe

Romania's anti-graft investigators on Monday questioned Ioana Valmar, the ex-wife of the speaker of the parliament, in a case of real estate fraud involving many big public names and even royalty.

Valmar, a notary, is being investigated for her role in legalising the paperwork in illegal land and property dealings, which prosecutors say cost the state some 136 million euros.

Former foreign ministers convened in first Foreign Ministry's Consultative Council in five years

The former foreign ministers of Romania gathered on Friday, on the initiative of the incumbent head of diplomacy Bogdan Aurescu, in the first Consultative Council of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE), to discuss the country's foreign policy priorities in its relation with the eastern neighbourhood, MAE informed AGERPRES in a release.

Social Democratic Party holds its National Council

The meeting of the National Council of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) began on Friday at the Parliament Palace, in the presence of the party president, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and of other members of its leadership; the honorary president of the PSD, Ion Iliescu, former President of Romania, did not attend.

Photo credit: (c) Liviu SOVA / AGERPRES PHOTO

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