Government of Romania

Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea on Wednesday had in Washington several meetings with US officials, members of the Congressional Romania Caucus (US Congress Group of Friendship with Romania) and other senior officials of the US government's legislature; the main topic of the talks were the concerning developments in the eastern neighborhood of Romania as regards security

The natural gas imports from Russia will return to normal levels on Thursday, but we cannot know what will happen from Friday, Romanian Minister-delegate for Energy Razvan Nicolescu declared. "I do not rule out that this on-off cut game should continue," he added.

The president of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR, a governing coalition partner) Hunor Kelemen told AGERPRES that in the talks he had with Prime Minister Victor Ponta at the Government's offices in the capital on Monday he had informed the cabinet head that the UDMR will name a culture minister after August 1.

The over 50 candidates in the race for eight seats of senators and deputies in the vacated colleges, have tried to convince the electors they deserve their vote in the May 25 Romanian parliamentary by-elections.

The election campaign for the parliamentary by-elections ends at 7 a.m. on Saturday.