Cotroceni
Iohannis: I shall discuss with President Basescu institutional details for head of state mandate takeover
President-elect Klaus Iohannis confirms he will have a meeting with Traian Basescu at the Cotroceni Palace on Wednesday, showing he will discuss with the latter the institutional details of the head of state mandate handover-takeover.
It's essential that you all return home, Basescu tells the military deployed in operations theatres
Incumbent President, Traian Basescu thanked the Romanian military in the operations theatres in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the way they accomplish their missions, in a video-conference on Monday, on the National Day's occasion, at the Cotroceni presidential Palace.
INTERVIEW Gheorghe Funar: I only have one-way ticket to Bucharest, I'm going to Cotroceni
The independent candidate for Presidency, Gheorghe Funar is keen to modify radically the fundamental law of Romania, in case he will get to the Cotroceni presidential Palace, after November elections.
He says in a interview with AGERPRES that he will run the country through referendums and will strengthen the president's attributions.
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President Basescu: My term ends on December 21, then I will join PMP
President Traian Basescu pointed that his term in office ends on December 21; he announced that afterwards he will join the People's Movement Party (PMP).
Basescu says never asked for any undercover officer list; Melescanu 'lying'
President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday he has never asked for a list of the undercover officers and insisted former Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) chief Teodor Melescanu is lying in this respect.
UPDATE President Basescu: Unless Lukoil resumes production, I ask government to be ready to take over refinery
President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that the Government must be prepared to take over the refinery in Ploiesti, unless Lukoil resumes production on Friday.
Iohannis: If you believe in nothing in Victoria Palace, you will believe in nothing in Cotroceni Palace
If you have some values, you will have them everywhere, and if you have no values and believe in nothing when you're in the Victoria Palace (e.n. - seat of the Government), you will have no values and believe in nothing when you're in the Cotroceni Palace (e.n.
PM Ponta: Romania's getting EU Humanitarian Aid portfolio - a never tackled subject
Premier Victor Ponta said on Thursday that the possibility that Romania be assigned the EU Humanitarian Aid portfolio was never tackled in Brussels.
Basescu: Russia's actions in Ukraine have reached limits verging on the irrational
Romania's President Traian Basescu said Wednesday that the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine have reached 'limits verging on the irrational,' and that is why Romania will be asking the incoming NATO summit to consolidate NATO's entire eastern flank.
Basescu: I voice in European Council supporting Ukraine with military equipment to meet aggression from Russia
President Traian Basescu said on Friday that he would voice in the European Council, on Saturday, supporting Ukraine with military equipment so that this country may meet the aggression from the Russian Federation, as well as imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia.