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Education minister, Sorin Cimpeanu on Thursday said that at the Education Ministry has arrived the request by the University of Bucharest to withdraw the PhD title in Law of Prime minister Victor Ponta and added this could be enforced according to the symmetry of the law, through an act similar in value to the one through which it has been granted.

In a surprising exercise in openness on security issues, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday said he was ready to make public all information about Romania's alleged involvement with CIA detention and rendition programs, after his government earlier said "such proof doesn't exist".

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday that the Government will approve the first sanctions in the case of the crash of a medical emergency helicopter in Constanta County and that an external audit needs to be conducted with the Department for Emergency Situations regarding the skills of the people in the system and the procedures to be followed in such situations.

Romanian President-elect Klaus Iohannis said in Timisoara on Tuesday that Romania should have a national museum of communism, that should inspire great educational projects, inspire topics relating diversity, the need of tolerance and civic responsibility.

"This is a gesture I should have done earlier, the moment that the first accusations about my doctoral thesis came. I didn't do so because I considered my arguments as being in good faith and because I didn't want to mix up professional with political [activities]," Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Tuesday, in a Facebook post.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta wrote a letter to Bucharest University rector Mircea Dumitru, announcing him of his decision to give up the PhD title in law he was granted in 2003.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday named analyst Radu Magdin a honorary advisor on foreign communication, to deal with the prime minister's foreign communication strategy with emphasis on Romania's position in the European and international news media, the Government's Press Office announced.

Romania's bicameral parliament on Monday approved a government reshuffle, triggered by the break-up of the country's ruling coalition, with Victor Ponta retaining his post as Prime Minister.

The government was approved with 377 votes, while 134 lawmakers voted against the cabinet.

The new Government, on Monday night validated by the Romanian Parliament will have a change of attitude, declared Prime Minister Victor Ponta, at the end of the joint Chambers' reunion.

He noticed that the new Gov't formula has passed with an extremely clear, stable majority.

The new Government proposed by Prime Minister Victor Ponta was validated late on Monday at a joint plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate with 377 votes in favour and 134 against.