Romania News

Romania took another important step towards a seamless transition of power when Prime Minister Delegate, Emil Boc, was validated through a vote of confidence by the Romanian Parliament on the 22nd December, ...

BUCHAREST, Romania : Romania's national currency dropped to a record low against the euro on Friday, the central bank said.

Huge snow flakes has started falling in the city of Bucharest today. Eventhough Romania only relies on Russia for about 25% of its gas we are without hot water and public heat today in freezing temperatures.

Romania has enough of its own natural gas stocks and production to manage despite the cut-off of its Russian gas supplies, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Wednesday.

BUCHAREST: Romania declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as deliveries of Russian gas ceased entirely, but the government insisted the country had sufficient reserves to last up to 80 days.

More than two thirds of Russian gas supplies to Romania have been suspended and the flow through one of the two gas import stations has been cut totally, the Economic Ministry of Romania said Tuesday.

Russian natural gas supplies to Romania remained at reduced levels on Monday as a result of the Russia-Ukraine gas row, the head of the Black Sea state's state-controlled pipeline operator Transgaz said.

SOFIA, Bulgaria/BUCHAREST, Romania -- Bulgaria and Romania reported cuts in Russian gas supplies of up to 30% on Friday due to a dispute over payments between Russia and Ukraine.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The interior ministry says Romania began producing new electronic passports on Wednesday .

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's economy minister has called a meeting with gas officials after supplies from Russia through a pipeline traversing Ukraine dropped by around a third.

An official says Romania is receiving at least a third less natural gas from Russia through a pipeline traversing Ukraine.

In an extensive article published at the very end of 2008, the German-language edition of the Financial Times reviews the effects of the global financial crisis on Southeast Europe.

The most significant music of the world is in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania, and thus the new sound of world music will rise from the Balkans, says Gheorghe Zamfir, the a oemaster of the pan ...

The foreign ministry said on Monday that Romania is assuming the rotating presidency of the Central European Initiative in 2009 for the first time since 1996, when it became a member of the organisation.

Severe weather in Romania, where the minimum temperature is in some places 25 degrees below zero Celsius, has claimed the lives of at least seven people.

Bitter cold temperatures claimed five lives in the southern district of Constanza, local media reported on Monday .

Bucharest's Mayor Sorin Oprescu cuts the cake during a Guinness World Record event for the world's heaviest cake.

BUCHAREST has attempted a new world record with a 392m smoked sausage that took two weeks to prepare and weighs a hefty 150kg.

The Ministry of Commerce yesterday warned people to be more careful when hired for jobs overseas after more than 200 Chinese construction workers were cheated by intermediary employment agency and stranded in ...

RUSE, Bulgaria : Bulgarians had grandiose expectations about joining the European Union.