Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

The Russian Federation has abandoned the international law for the national interest, Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Saturday.

Instead of moving towards stabilization and normalcy, the situation in Ukraine seems to drift from bad to worse, Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said at the end of his meeting this Thursday with Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maia Pandjikidze.

70 years ago, King Mihai managed to prevent Romania's turning into a warzone, by proving courage, determination and responsibility for the country's fate, Romania's Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu shows in a message broadcast on Saturday.

Chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), Calin Popescu Tariceanu on Thursday accused President Traian Basescu of "anti-constitutional practices" and called on "the political forces for whom the respect for Constitution matters" to be ready "at any time" for a new procedure to suspend the head of state from office.

Businessman Dinu Patriciu has died in London, where he was receiving medical care after the liver transplant procedure he underwent a year and a half ago in Milan, Italy. Medical sources have stated for AGERPRES that most probably, "his death came as a consequence of post-transplant complications".

Prime Minister Victor Ponta would get 46 percent of Romanians' votes in the first round of the presidential elections, while Klaus Iohannis would have 24 percent, the most recent CSCI poll remitted on Monday to AGERPRES shows.

Chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, has proposed former minister Daniel Chitoiu for the post of Secretary General of the Liberal Reformist Party on Saturday, during the first meeting of the party's new leadership.

Furthermore, Tariceanu proposed Bogdan Nica and Andreea Lambru for the posts of Secretary Generals.

Calin Popescu Tariceanu, chairman of the Senate, has stated on Saturday, at the Palace of the Parliament, where the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) Congress is taking place, that Romania needs a new political project and a new vision, adding that not only a decade-long cycle must end but a quarter-century cycle must end, believing that his candidacy as party chairman and his candida