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Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday said that Romania's royalty system is a governmental priority, but its modification should be the outcome of a political consensus that would secure long-term predictability for big energy investors.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Tuesday that the approval of the 2015 state budget is 'a huge personal stake' and also a chance for him to prove the already-taken measures were not 'electoral hand-outs'.

Serbian war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj, temporarily freed for cancer treatment, vowed not to go back to the Hague Tribunal voluntarily after the prosecution demanded his return to custody.

THE HAGUE - The prosecution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday requested that the decision to grant indictee Vojislav Seselj provisional release be annulled and said that his conduct following his return to Serbia has been undermining the grounds of the decision to release him.

Republic of Moldova Ambassador Iurie Renita in Alba Iulia on Saturday said that the Sunday parliamentary ballot in his country represented a crucial moment for the destiny of the Republic of Moldova.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday said that he could give up his mandate as chief of Government if the President-elect, Klaus Iohannis, guaranteed that he would appoint a prime minister from among the current ruling coalition made up of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) - the Conservative Party (PC) - the Liberal Reformist Par

Social Democrat (PSD) senator Mircea Geoana said at the end of the party's National Executive Committee meeting on Thursday that PSD chairman and Prime Minister Victor Ponta proposed that he be expelled from the party, alongside Dan Sova and Marian Vanghelie.

SARAJEVO - Political stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is an important precondition for general political stability in the region, the Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic and Serbian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Stanimir Vukicevic said in Sarajevo on Wednesday.

KONJIC - President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Theodor Meron, who is on a visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), paid his respects on Wednesday to the Serb victims of the former prison camp in Celebici near Konjic, Herzegovina.

During the civil war in BiH in 1992, members of the BiH army ran a detention camp in Celebici for Serb prisoners.

The Hague Tribunal finally published the conditions for the temporary release of Serbian war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj, while Croatia’s parliament called for him to be incarcerated again.