Tiberiu Nitu, Romania’s General Prosecutor, gives up his mandate in wake of accusations regarding the abusive use of official convoys, after his name appears in the Oprea file. Nitu justifies his resignation as a gesture of “responsibility and honor”, given that his name is “artificially associated with a situation that could have consequences towards the image of the institution” that he represents.  However, he stated that he did not ask for, nor did he benefit from the advantages of official convoys, in the spirit they are enacted, but he was given a device for protection and escort. One day after the public resignation, President Klaus Iohannis signs the decree for his relieve....more »

Dacian Ciolos, the newly designated Romanian Premier, announced, on the 15th of November 2015, that he has the final list comprised of 21 names of those who would be the future leaders of the new Governmental Cabinet....more »

The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, named the country's new Premier on Tuesday, November 10th2015....more »

The recent political crisis is one which has brought Romania to the attention of international media. Starting with the death of young police officer, Bogdan Cosmin Gigina, who lost his life while leading the official convoy of then Minister of Interior, Gabriel Oprea, the people of Romania have been getting increasingly anxious with regard to the ruling political class of their country. ...more »

Victor Ponta, the Romanian Prime Minister has stepped down from his official role, today, November 4th2015 following a 25 000 people strong protest the night before, in Romania's capital city....more »

An opinion poll released this August by the Info-politics Studies and Research Center shows that the political personality Romanians trust the most, with 59 percent favorability rating is President Klaus Iohannis.   This result shows a ...more »

The Ministry of Interior announced the creation of a National Passengers Information Unit that will process information collected from airlines about passengers of inbound and outbound flights form Romania's airports.   The new unit wil...more »

Implementing NATO Readiness Action Plan, the long term Adaptation Measures with a view to the Summit in Warsaw of 2016 and Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan were the main topics on the discussion agenda. As to the progress in reviewing and optimizing NATO Response Force (NRF), ministerDuşa pointed out that Romania will augment and improve its contribution to NRF, also by identifying forces and capabilities for NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. ...more »

Liviu Dragnea announced that he resigned from the position of Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration and will submit its mandate as executive president of the PSD, following the Supreme Court's decision to sentence him to one year of probation prison in the case of fraud in the referendum of 2012 to the dismissal of President Traian Basescu. ...more »

The final version of Romania's operational programme regional development, for which 8.25 billion euros are earmarked in the financial framework 2014-2020, will be submitted to the European Commission this month says Minister of Regional Development Liviu Dragnea. 'We have virtually closed negotiations with Directorate General Regio for operational programme regional development and the final version of the programme will be submitted to the European Commission today or tomorrow, no later than the weekend of May 9, 2015....more »