Alina Novaceanu

More than 2,800 petty crimes were registered by the police during the Easter holiday, with about 22,000 fines and 1,324 drivers' licenses lifted, on Monday informs the Romanian Police General Inspectorate (IGPR) in a release.

Several public institutions in the Capital City Bucharest, as well as organizations are marking on Saturday the "Earth Hour."

* The Presidential Administration joins the "Earth Hour" campaign for the fourth consecutive year.

In this respect, on Saturday, between 20.30 and 21.30 EET, the lights at the Cotroceni Palace will be switched off, informs the Presidency.

Perception of Romania inside the European Union is, to a great extent, correct, but there is also fake news that leads to a murky image of the country, Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said on Thursday.

Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Eduard Hellvig expressed his availability for the declassification in the following period of the protocol between SRI and the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Supreme Court (High Court of Cassation and Justice, ICCJ, ed. n.), on Monday said the head of the SRI oversight parliamentary committee, Claudiu Manda.

Remembrance of the Holocaust and the education of future generations in the spirit of truth about this tragedy are part of an objective to protect democratic values, combating anti-Semitism and discrimination, reads a message from the Romanian Government delivered in Skopje, Macedonia, by Romania's Deputy Prime Minister Ana Birchall, to the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the

Tourism Minister Bogdan Trif, President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Sibiu Organisation stated on Friday that there is no dictatorship within the Social Democratic Party and everyone will vote at the Congress depending on his/her conscience.

In Chisinau on Friday, Romanian Senator Titus Corlatean, chairman of the Select Committee on Coordination of Parliamentary Activities for Preparing the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council in the First Half of 2019, unveiled the actions of Romania in support of the European and Euro-Atlantic projects of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, underlining the legitimacy of the European aspirations of the

Senate's President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Thursday said during his meeting with the European Commission's First Vice President, Frans Timmermans, at the Parliament's seat, that the amendment of the criminal codes (Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, ed.

Former head of Romania's Intelligence Service (SRI) George Maior confirmed in a testimony on Tuesday before Parliament's SRI Oversight Committee the parties that took place at the SRI headquarters of Romania's National Day, the SRI Day, birthdays, including Victor Ponta, Liviu Dragnea, Laura Codruta Kovesi, Livia Stanciu, says committee chairman Claudiu Manda.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila met on Friday at the Victoria Palace with Ambassador of the State of Israel Tamar Samash, occasion on which the symbolic importance of 2018 for the dynamic of the bilateral relations was underscored, as well as the interest of the Romanian side for completing the project for the opening of Romania's National Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust.