Romania

President-elect, Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday has sent a message of condolences to the families of victims of helicopter crash in Constanta County.

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.

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) State Secretary Raed Arafat has stated, on Monday, that three persons are missing, and another was rescued from the Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) helicopter that crashed on Monday in Siutghiol Lake near the seaside resort of Mamaia.

Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea is underway to Constanta County, where the crash of a helicopter of the Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) was reported, the Ministry of the Interior informs.

The President-elect, Klaus Iohannis calls the Romanians through his Facebook page to search in their own archives, now, at 25 years since they won their right to freedom, and put together "images and testimonies of what the fall of communism and the birth of the Romanian democracy meant."

BELGRADE - In 2014 and 2015, Romania remains one of the most important growing economies in the region, and economic indicators give hope that the ambition to join the euro zone in 2019 is a goal to achieve, Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in an exclusive opinion piece for Tanjug ahead of the Third Meeting of Heads of Government of China and Central and Eastern European countries in B

Chairman of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR), Vice Premier Gabriel Oprea, reiterated on Saturday in the mountain resort of Sinaia the need to have large fortunes taxed, voicing hopes that the 2016 budget will also include amounts from this source of revenues.

The Council of Union Representatives of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) this Saturday approved by a broad majority (with just three votes against and seven abstentions) the proposal that the Union should pull out of government. The initial proposal for this move had been made on November 27, in Cluj, by UDMR's Standing Council.