Gabriel Oprea

Vice Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea met Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva on Thursday, at the Victoria Palace (the Government offices); the Portuguese head of state is paying an official visit to Romania.

Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva (L) and Romanian Vice PM Gabriel Oprea shake hands before official talks at Victoria Palace

A few hundred members and supporters of the People's Movement Party (PMP) asked the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Sunday, in a protest meeting organised in front of the Government House.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday at the Parliament Palace in Bucharest that Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea informed him about the measures taken to clean up after recent floods in northern Romania, assuring that the Government will summon up all the necessary resources for repairing and for containing damage to less than so far.

The Heroes' Day is the national celebration honoring the memory of our forerunners who sacrificed themselves for the freedom of the Romanians and for Romania's territorial integrity, Deputy Prime Minister for National Security, Minister of Internal Affairs Gabriel Oprea said on the occasion.

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Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea on Tuesday met US charge d'affaires in Bucharest Dean Thompson to discuss the Visa Waiver programme, a bilateral agreement on crime prevention and fight as well as the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.

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Romania and Turkey are two of NATO's geostrategic pillars, Deputy Premier and Minister of the Interior Gabriel Oprea said on Friday after a meeting in Bucharest with Turkish Minister of the Interior Sebahattin Ozturk.

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Several party leaders signed a parliamentary initiative to modify the Law No. 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in electronic communications, the Presidential Administration announced after their meeting with President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday.

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The Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI) Consultative Council gathered on Tuesday decided to call on the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) for Romania's accession to the Schengen area, as well as to send a letter on the same topic to the other interior ministers in the EU member states, Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea informed.

Romania and Bulgaria's accession to the border-free Schengen Area, regional and bilateral police cooperation as well as cooperation inside European organisations, joint operative missions in the areas of border security, migrations and asylum, corruption, were the main topics of discussion at a meeting on Friday in Craiova, of Romania's Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea and his Bulgarian counterp

The Romanian Police is appreciated as one of the most active Europol members, Deputy Prime Minister for National Security, Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea said on Thursday.

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