AGERPRES

Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Thursday took part in Brussels in a high-level conference on the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights as a shared responsibility, where he said Romania has attached special importance to enforcing the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that concern it .

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MP Ana Birchall of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), chair of the Committee on European Affairs of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies and high governmental representative for European affairs and partnership with the US, is paying an official visit to the US, March 23-28 to discuss parliamentary diplomacy cooperation as well as consolidating and deepening the strategic partnership between Romani

The commercial banks operating in Romania are currently implementing the new disclosure and data release requirements of the third pillar of the Basel Agreements; the process began throughout Europe last year, says Cristian Stefan, head of the Regulation and Licensing Department of the National Bank of Romania (BNR, the central bank).

The royal family is not only an essential page of our country's history, but a symbol of the values I think highly of: respect for the people, the power to go over injustice and hardships, large-heartedness and seemliness, president Klaus Iohannis said, after attending on Wednesday, and accompanied by his wife, Carmen Iohannis the dinner offered by the Royal House at the Peles Castle.

Angel Tilvar, minister delegate for the relations with the Romanians abroad, received on Wednesday Avital Leibovich, director of the American Jewish Committee Jerusalem (AJC) of Israel.

President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday said that, in the context in which the Senate has rejected earlier the same day the request regarding the taking into custody and the placement under preventive arrest of Social Democratic senator Dan Sova, the Parliament will only be able to regain the citizens' trust when it responds "promptly and correctly" to requests from the judiciary.

In a 97-to-48 secret vote with 5 votes cancelled, the Senate plenum approved on Wednesday the taking into custody and placement under preventive detention of the former Finance Minister, Senator Darius Valcov in an influence peddling case.

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Macroeconomic confidence indicator recorded, in February, an increase by 2.5 points from the previous month, having reached the value of 62.3, according to a CFA Romania release issued for AGERPRES.

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A request for arbitration in relation to the autonomy of the 'Szekely Land' in Romania demanded by several local councils from the counties of Covasna, Harghita and Mures was denied on Tuesday in Strasbourg by the Monitoring Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (CLRA) of the Council of Europe.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta stated, on Tuesday, that he is shocked by the news of the air crash in France and declared that his thoughts go towards the families and close ones of the victims of the crash.

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