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More than half of the Romanians (60pct) say they have bank loans, whilst over one third (37pct) say their mandatory monthly spending matches exactly the amount of their income, a sociological survey related to the Romanians financial habits, published on Thursday, reveals.

A Romanian police raid on Thursday revealed that thousands of Moldovans have paid for fake addresses to get citizenship of EU-member Romania and an official residence in Bucharest.

The Advent, which begins on Wednesday, is actually ‘a pilgrimage with the three magi of eternity - faith, hope and love,' says priest Constantin Necula, pastoral and image counselor to the Transylvanian Metropolitan Church, in an interview with AGERPRES.

Requests for Romanian citizenship in Ukraine's Odessa region have doubled since the start of 2017, which analysts say might cause further tension with Bucharest - already angered by the adoption of language laws promoting Ukrainian in 2017.

Bucharest scrapped its consular fees for passports in 2017, which had amounted to around 300 US dollars.

President Alain Berset has said Switzerland will lift restrictions next year on Romanians and Bulgarians who want to work in the country. Berset said on Thursday in Bucharest that the current limits imposed on Romanian and Bulgarian workers will end next May, RT reports.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday in Suceava that the Greater Union should not be regarded as a "deserved inheritance or a well-deserved gift of history ," showing that Romanians should contribute to the project of an advancing Romania.

79% of the population of Bulgaria is against same-sex marriages. What do others in Europe think about this issue?

AGERPRES special correspondent to Strasbourg, France, Florentina Peia, reports:

National Liberal Party (PNL) leader Ludovic Orban stated on Wednesday evening that the work force deficit in the private sector could be reduced with people from the administration included, affirming that there shouldn't be one million employees in the public sector.

Romanian human rights activists and some politicians cheered on Sunday night as a referendum aiming to change the constitution so that it would only allow marriage between a man and a woman has failed to overcome the 30 per cent turnout threshold.