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Senator Mircea Geoana claims he did not request Prime Minister Victor Ponta designate him as Foreign Minister, a release of the MP remitted on Sunday to AGERPRES shows.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta considers the naming of Bogdan Aurescu as Foreign Minister led to the conflict with Mircea Geoana, the latter purportedly offering to support Ponta from this position.

Photo credit: (c) Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES PHOTO

Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania [UDMR] MP Cseke Attila on Friday claimed that the legislative proposal aimed at solving mortgage related problems belonging to his political party should be adopted by Parliament under an emergency regime.

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Romania plans to build around 725 km of new highways and 1,809 km of express roads in the next 15 years, spending around 28.6 billion euro on expanding the country's poor road infrastructure, the Transport Ministry announced in its new "Master Plan".

European Funds Minister Eugen Teodorovici believes that the National Liberal Party (PNL) decision to contest with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) the state budget law for 2015 imperils the Government's capacity to allot starting January 1 the amount of 6.3 billion euros to co-funding, pointing out that Romania needs in the coming period as much stability as possible to m

Democrat Liberal Party (PDL) chairperson Vasile Blaga stated, on Saturday, that he has convened, together with old National Liberal Party (PNL) chairperson Alina Gorghiu, that on January 5, 2015, the Liberal Unification Committee meet in a session in which to debate the criteria under which the PDL-PNL unification process is to be conducted.

First deputy-chairperson of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Alina Gorghiu has been elected on Thursday as president of the old PNL, and she will also be co-chairperson of the new PNL.

The new ministers of the Ponta Cabinet were sworn in on Wednesday, at the Cotroceni presidential Palace, in front of incumbent president, Traian Basescu.

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.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and his Romanian counterpart Gabriel Oprea stated on Tuesday that strengthening of bilateral cooperation is one of the two countries' priorities.