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Former President Traian Basescu says Russia will not stop until it gets the control over southern Ukraine, down to the mouths of Danube River, and Romania should be worried.

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President Traian Basescu on Saturday said that Romanians can be optimistic in what concerns the evolution of the Romanian economy, maintaining that the prospect is of economic growth.

President Traian Basescu will hold his last press conference as head of state at the Cotroceni Palace on Saturday.

According to the Presidential Administration, the press conference is scheduled at 18,00. On this occasion, President Traian Basescu is expected to present the report of his activity with Romania's Presidency.

President Traian Basescu sent a message on Sunday, the Day of Saint Andrew, celebrated by the Romanian Orthodox Church on Nov. 30, the Presidential Administration informs.

Incumbent President Traian Basescu on Monday congratulated Liberal head Klaus Iohannis for having won Sunday's presidential elections.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Monday he has sent President Traian Basescu the proposal that the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) Teodor Melescanu should take over as caretaker foreign minister, after Titus Corlatean had tendered resignation.

Incumbent President Traian Basescu said on Sunday it is the time for changing a certain manner of being president of Romania and stressed that after ten years, another type of head of state will come.

Social Democratic lawmaker Ionut Vulpescu asserts that Premier Victor Ponta, a frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election backed by the PSD-UNPR-PC electoral alliance, is seen as a "regional leader" by the US top officials.

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) leadership may be invited to Parliament for hearings, following the statements made by President Traian Basescu on Monday.

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday urged the government to "take over the Petrotel refinery if production doesn't restart there". 

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