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Meteorologists have issued a Code Yellow advisory of heavy snowfalls, blizzards and icy roads for all over the country as of February 3, for three days.

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The first deepwater exploration well in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea developed by ExxonMobil and OMV Petrom, Domino-1, indicates the presence of fossil fuels, according to a release sent on Friday by the two companies. .

Friday, 03 February 2012 18:40   |   Read more...

Romania's population was dwindling by more than two million people from the 2002 till the 2011, last year census data say. .

Friday, 03 February 2012 09:16   |   Read more...

The President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barroso, said he is convinced that the European Union (EU) can count on Romania and its citizens to succeed a "European rebirth" in the context of new challenges facing Europe. .

Thursday, 02 February 2012 18:01   |   Read more...

On January 31, 2012, Romania's international reserves totalled 37.08 billion euros, compared to 37.25 billion euros on December 31, 2011. .

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 17:43   |   Read more...

This morning, the first day of the month of February, it was 32.5 degrees Celsius at Intorsura Buzaului (north-east of Bucharest), the lowest air temperature this year. .

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 09:55   |   Read more...

Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu and Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat on Tuesday opened an outbuilding of the Romanian Consular Office in Chisinau. .

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:20   |   Read more...

On January 30 one marks the 160th birthday anniversary of I L Caragiale, one of the classics of Romanian literature besides Mihai Eminescu and Ion Creanga. This year too, in June, one will mark the 200th commemoration of the death of the great dramatist. .

Monday, 30 January 2012 15:58   |   Read more...

Romania will participate 20 companies at the world's largest organic trade fair Biofach 2012 to be held in Nuremberg, Germany, over Feb. 15-18. The event is supported by the Association of Romanian Organic Producers Bio Romania and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment, the Department of Foreign Trade. .

Monday, 30 January 2012 11:21   |   Read more...

The Paleolithic cave paintings unearthed in Coliboaia Cave, the oldest in Central Europe, along with the history of their discovery, were displayed this week for the first time in an exhibition held by the "Cris Rivers' Country Museum" and Aven d'Orgnac Grand Site de France, partnering the French Embassy to Romania. .

Sunday, 29 January 2012 14:27   |   Read more...

The Transilvania State Philharmonic, in an anniversary extraordinary concert given in Cluj-Napoca (western Romania), marked the 55th anniversary of the first concert given by the symphony orchestra under the baton of conductor Antonin Ciolan, the 40th anniversary of the choir and the 25th anniversary of the Transylvanian Quartet. .

Sunday, 29 January 2012 14:04   |   Read more...

Romania will not be affected and markets are not to react to street protests, as long as the economic fundamentals and reforms are going in the right direction, said on RFI, Romania's representative to the International Monetary Fund / IMF / Mihai Tanasescu. .

Friday, 27 January 2012 17:22   |   Read more...

Senator Viorel Badea, a member of the Romanian delegation to CEPA in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly plenum on Thursday evoked the situation of the Romanian minority of Ukraine, whose rights are not always observed, by diminishing the number of schools teaching in Romanian in Chernovtsy, Odessa and Transcarpathia and by turning some of those in education units in the majority language. .

Friday, 27 January 2012 11:43   |   Read more...

The avalanche risk in Retezat and Parang Mountains (massifs in Southern Carpathians, the highest of all the Romanian Carpathians) is extremely high, with a snow slide temporarily blocking the access road to the mountain resort Rausor, located over 1,200 metres high. .

Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:12   |   Read more...

Ford will manufacture some 60,000 B-Max units in 2012 at its Romanian factory in Craiova, starting in the second quarter of the year, while in 2013 it will manufacture over 100,000 such units, Ford Romania President and CEO Jan Gijsen said. .

Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:13   |   Read more...

MEP Monica Macovei, vice president of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL, main at rule), warned that the elimination from the Law 303/2004 of the disciplinary misconduct that sanctioned the law violation by judges and prosecutors in case of failing to return in time the wealth and interests declaration forms is a "step backwards". .

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:19   |   Read more...

National Meteorology Administration (ANM) on Wednesday morning issued a code orange warning for strong blizzards valid for the counties in eastern and south-eastern Romania: Ilfov (Bucharest Municipality, included), Teleorman, Giurgiu, Arges, Dambovita, Prahova, Calarasi, Ialomita, Buzau, Braila, Galati, Vrancea, Constanta, Tulcea, Mehedinti, Dolj and Olt. .

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:02   |   Read more...

Proprietatea Fund (FP) and the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Wednesday organize a press conference on the occasion of the first anniversary from the listing of FP on the stock market. .

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:17   |   Read more...

Romanians celebrate on January 24 the 153nd anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, a highly important event in this country's history, which opened the way to the modernization of the Romanian State and society. .

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 09:17   |   Read more...

The President of the National Liberal Party (PNL, in opposition), Crin Antonescu, proposed, at the Parliament's rostrum, the solution to the demands of Romanians who took to the street, namely the resignation of the President of the country, of the Boc Government and of the all MPs, saying that the opposition MPs are first to be ready to take such a step. .

Monday, 23 January 2012 17:02   |   Read more...

The payment of the car tax for the motorcars registered before January 2007 was postponed by one year in order to enable car owners to sell their cars, but also because they did not understand enough the way to apply it, according to the information supplied to Agerpres by the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MMP). .

Monday, 23 January 2012 13:45   |   Read more...

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