Eastern Romance people

Romania's Interior Ministry on Wednesday started posting updated information on its website about expected waiting times at Romanian checkpoints with Hungary, to curb the frustration of people queuing up to spend their Christmas holidays at home.

A sociological research conducted by the Infopolitic Study and Research Centre (CSCI) shows that 60-70 per cent of the respondents believe that Romanians were more patriotic during communism, an answer given mostly by persons over 45 years, by persons living in the rural area and by Romanian ethnics.

Photo credit: (c) Romanain nationalism ? CSCI poll / Infopolitic.ro

Germany has registered a surge in receivers of the Hartz-IV unemployment benefits among immigrants coming from Bulgaria and Romania in 2014, according to media reports.

Between January and December 2014, there were 83 082 receivers from Bulgaria and Romania in the country, according to official statistics of the unemployment agencies quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Several people in Romania and abroad joined the initiative of two young men of Brasov and contributed to aids to villagers of Doboi, Harghita County - ethnic Romanians, Orthodox, living within a local majority of ethnic Hungarians of Catholic and Protestant faith, and talking to each other in Hungarian even in their homes.

Photo credit: (c) GINA STEFAN / AGERPRES FLOW

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: Romania's President Klaus Iohannis said Thursday in Warsaw, Poland, that after years of disappointments and failures a new Romania will be built which citizens will no longer feel like abandoning.

Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES PHOTO

The number of Bulgarians and Romanians who migrated to the UK in the year to end-June has increased sharply, contributing to a rise in net migration above government projections, official figures showed on Thursday.

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AGERPRES special correspondent Florian Copcea reports: A Romanian Cultural Centre came into being in the Serbian town of Kladovo, intended for the Romanian national minority in the Techia-Prahovo cross-border region.

Tens of thousands of Romanians protested in cities across the country at the weekend in support of Romanians living abroad who were not able to cast votes in the presidential election on November 2.

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Some 18.3 million Romanians aged 18 and over are eligible to vote in the presidential elections. In total, 18,550 polling stations will open across Romania. Another 294 are available for Romanian citizens living abroad.

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Romania is struggling for the status, recognition and guaranteeing the freedom of the Christian Orthodox Church in Serbia's Timoc Valley, Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean told debates hosted by the Palace of Parliament on Wednesday.