Victor Ponta

BELGRADE - Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta started off his visit to Belgrade on Thursday by meeting with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.

Vucic welcomed Ponta outside Palace Serbia.

The meeting will be followed by a plenary meeting of the two countries' delegations, the Serbian government office for media relations has stated.

BELGRADE - Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta will arrive on Thursday on a visit to Belgrade where he will meet with senior state officials of Serbia.

Most Romanians want as their president a seasoned politician, a Romanian ethnic, as independent as possible from the political point of view, an opinion poll by INSCOP commissioned by Adevarul newspaper revealed.

A group of 84 Romanian nationals and their families have asked to return back home from Gaza Strip on Monday, with the group to get to Romania later in the day, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced in a release to AGERPRES.

The Romanians will be flown back home by two Defence Ministry aircraft — a C 130 Hercules and C 27 J Spartan respectively, it added.

The Presidential Administration on Monday announced consultations of President Traian Basescu with the Government on changes to the Tax Code.

A media release mentions of the presidency mentions that the talks will be hosted at 4 p.m. at the Cotroceni Palace, the seat of the Presidential Administration.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta told AGERPRES on Friday that both the position of a vice premier and culture minister will stay at the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UMDR, a ruling coalition partner).

The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) will stay in government, party leader Kelemen Hunor announced on Friday, adding he will step down from all the positions he holds in the Victor Ponta Cabinet.

Tensions between Romanian President and the government are rising once again after Traian Basescu refused to sign off on a law cutting companies' social security contributions before being assured by the Prime Minister about which resources will support this cut.

Eastern Europe leaders express support for EU

The Constitutional Court of Romania on Wednesday unanimously ruled that there was no juridical conflict of a constitutional nature between the Government and the Presidency over the representation of Romania at a June summit meeting of the European Council.

The ruling is final and generally binding.