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Romania's Prime minister resigns [Feb 06, 2012] BUCHAREST: Romania's centre-right Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, saying he wanted to "defuse political and social tension" in the country. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania PM Boc resigns after protests [Feb 06, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday after weeks of nationwide protests against his tough austerity measures and before a parliamentary election due late this year. "It is the moment for important political decisions. From this point of view, I took the decision to give up the government's mandate," Boc said in a speech after a government meeting. (Reporting ... [via YahooNews] More >>

IMF official in Romania criticized for attending a party denies any wrongdoing [Feb 05, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? The head of the IMF mission in Romania has criticized politicians and media for accusing him of misconduct for having attended a party held by government officials at a time of harsh austerity measures. [via YahooNews] More >>

IMF, EU trim Romania's growth forecast [Feb 05, 2012] The head of the International Monetary Fund mission to Romania, Jeffrey Franks, gives a press conference in Bucharest. The IMF and the European Union on Sunday said they had trimmed Romania's 2012 growth ... [via YahooNews] More >>

IMF official in Romania rejects criticism [Feb 05, 2012] ALISON MUTLER Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania The head of the International Monetary Fund's mission in Romania on Sunday criticized politicians and media for accusing him of misconduct for having attended a party held by government officials at a time of harsh austerity measures. A video of the party that Jeffrey Franks attended last week at a restaurant in a Romanian mountain resort has ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania, IMF Agree on $664 Million Tranche as Balkan Nation?s Growth Slows [Feb 05, 2012] Romania and the International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement to unlock about 505 million euros ($664 million) in funds from its standby loan, IMF Mission Chief Jeffrey Franks said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania must meet Spain [Feb 05, 2012] Having booked their progress to the UEFA Futsal EURO 2012 quarter-finals on Thursday, Romania discovered tonight that they must switch from Split to Zagreb to play holders Spain. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens [Feb 03, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west. Temperatures plummeted to minus 37 Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in northern Slovakia and rescue workers dug through snow on mountain roads to rescue ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania removes nine children from unheated homes as Eastern Europe cold front claims 139 [Feb 03, 2012] BUCHAREST/BELGRADE, Serbia -- Authorities in northeast Romania have taken nine children into care after a baby died in an unheated house where the temperature was as cold as outside, an agency said on Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania Loses 2.6 Million People in 10 Years [Feb 03, 2012] Bulgaria's northern neighbor Romania seems to be hit just as hard by a demographic crisis, having lost 2.6 million of its population in the past decade. Preliminary census results of the Romanian Statistical Institute released Thursday show that Romania's population declined from 21.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian prosecutors probe man who hacked Pentagon [Feb 03, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Organized crime prosecutors say they are investigating a 20-year-old Romanian suspected of hacking into several Pentagon and NASA servers. [via YahooNews] More >>

Basescu Angered by Dutch 'Abuse' against Romania, Bulgaria [Feb 02, 2012] Romanian President Traian Basescu has criticized the Netherlands' "abuse" against Romania and Bulgaria, answering the Dutch stance against the two EU newcomers' Schengen bids. During a press conference in Brussels dedicated to his country's fifth anniversary as a EU member, Basescu revealed that he has tackled the Dutch stance on Bulgaria and Romania's Schengen entry bids at the recent European ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania speaks nicely about Moldova to the EU [Feb 02, 2012] The European perspective of the Republic of Moldova was among the topics discussed by the Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu during an official meeting organized yesterday, February 1, with the ambassadors of the EU member states accredited to Bucharest. Minister Diaconescu passed in review the results of his visit to Moldova on January 31 and had underlined Romania?s active support ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania Will Lower Interest Rate for Third Time, Survey Shows [Feb 02, 2012] Romania?s central bank will probably reduce its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point for a third consecutive meeting as policy makers see inflation slowing to a record. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian Central Bank Lowers Benchmark Interest Rate for a Third Time [Feb 02, 2012] Romania?s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point for the third time in as many meetings to boost economic growth amid Europe?s debt crisis while the inflation rate falls to post-communist lows. [via YahooNews] More >>

Rutherford poet translates contemporary Romanian authors [Feb 02, 2012] Claudia Serea, a resident of Rutherford and a native of Romania, has translated the works of contemporary Romanian poets in a new anthology called "The Vanishing Point That Whistles." [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania tightens welfare rules [Feb 02, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- New standards for public benefits in Romania, including strict limits on property ownership, are aimed at the Roma, Gypsy King Florin Cioaba said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Hacker of U.S. sites arrested in Romania [Feb 01, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Police in Romania said they've arrested a notorious hacker known for breaking into U.S. government and military Web sites to expose security faults. [via YahooNews] More >>

Canadian company's gold-mine plan sparks fresh protests in Romania [Feb 01, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania - Greenpeace activists stormed the Romanian environment minister's office Tuesday and two people chained themselves to a radiator to protest a controversial gold mine in Transylvania. [via YahooNews] More >>

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