Ethnic groups in Romania

Germany has amended the benefits arrangements for citizens of other EU member stattes, Bulgarians and Romanians included, according to DW.

Nationals of EU countries will only been given benefits after having spent five years in the country, acording to DW.

Prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, DIICOT, on Tuesday held a 17-year-old man from the southern city of Craiova for allegedly distributing video material inciting Islamist violence.

Beke Istvan Attila, an ethnic Hungarian citizen of Romania, was remanded in custody for 30 days on Tuesday after being accused of "attempted crimes against the constitutional order and the non-observance the of explosive materials regime".

There is no room for the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in any of Croatia's 23 municipalities where Serbs constitute at least a third of the population.

The decision passed on Monday by the local administration in the municipality of Vukovar "sends a clear message - Serbs are not welcome: they best be assimilated, or move out," says Miodrag Linta.

The Romanian parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted a law offering special bumper pensions for lawmakers after they retire. The law was adopted with 303 votes in favour and 124 against.

For completing one term, a former senator or deputy will now take away a special pension of 1,550 lei (344 euro) per month, under the new law.

A new model for housing Roma has been introduced in Serbia, officials of the Serbian government and the UN have announced.

The ambassador of South Africa in Bucharest, Thenjiwe Mtintso, states in an interview granted to AGERPRES that South Africans could learn from Romanians how to preserve their cultural heritage, while Romanians could learn from South Africans how to encourage the participation of women in political life.

Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES PHOTO

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

Minister Delegate for Romanians Abroad Angel Tilvar met Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver on Sunday; they discussed matters concerning the community of Israelis of Romanian origin, a release of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informed AGERPRES.

Photo credit: (c) Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

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.