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Anti-cuts protests push Romania PM out [Feb 08, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, joining a list of European leaders felled by fury at the kind of spending cuts that prompted weeks of mass protests in Bucharest against IMF-backed austerity. Twenty-two years after they overthrew communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians are the second-poorest people in the EU, earning just a fraction of neighbors ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania's nominated new PM tries to form government [Feb 07, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's designated new prime minister, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, will probably unveil his proposed new government on Tuesday after talks with the ruling coalition, which party members said were going smoothly. The 43-year-old head of the foreign intelligence service was nominated to replace Emil Boc, who resigned after protests against austerity measures taken under an ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania's spy chief in talks on forming government [Feb 07, 2012] BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romania's incoming prime minister, spy chief Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, began talks on Tuesday to form a new government a day after the dramatic resignation of his predecessor amid anger at austerity cuts. Related Stories Sex abuse must be reported to police, Vatican says Swedish PM wants Swedes to work until age 75 Europe sends in ice breakers to battle big chill Chinese workers ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian President asks Intelligence head to form new government [Feb 06, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Traian Basescu said on Monday he asked foreign intelligence service head Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu to form a new government and seek parliament's vote of confidence. The nomination comes after Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned earlier on Monday, seeking to soften the anger of thousands of Romanians who have protested against sharp austerity measures for ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania president names justice minister interim PM [Feb 06, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Traian Basescu nominated Catalin Predoiu as interim prime minister, replacing Emil Boc who stepped down earlier on Monday. The 43-year-old lawyer was Boc's justice minister. Predoiu was previously a member of the opposition Liberal Party, from which he resigned to sit as an independent lawmaker after he took the justice post in 2008. (Reporting by Sam ... [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, 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 >>

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 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 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 >>

Greenpeace storms Romanian ministry over gold mine [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST - Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's Environment Ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves to radiators in the minister's office in an attempt to stop approval for Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town. [via YahooNews] More >>

Greenpeace storms Romanian ministry over gold mine [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST (REUTERS) - Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's Environment Ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves to radiators in the minister's office in an attempt to stop approval for Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town. Related Stories Toy company owners to be sentenced in drug scheme Italian authorities end search for cruise ship bodies US diplomat says N. Korea ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 31, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of communism in 1989. He remains free pending an appeal. Prosecutors had ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. [via YahooNews] More >>

Former Romanian premier Nastase sentenced to two-year jail term [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST Former prime minister of Romania Adrian Nastase was sentenced to a two-year prison term for corruption in the 'Quality Trophy' file case by the Supreme Court on Monday, in the first such sentencing of a top-ranking politician. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of communism in 1989. He remains free pending an appeal. Prosecutors had ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania sentences ex-PM Nastase to jail for graft [Jan 30, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court gave former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a two year jail sentence for corruption on Monday, a landmark conviction in the graft-prone European Union country that has prosecuted few senior officials. Nastase, who denies the charges and will remain free pending an appeal, would be the first former prime minister to be sent to jail since the fall of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Ex-Romania PM handed two-year sentence for graft [Jan 30, 2012] (BUCHAREST ) - Former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase was sentenced Monday by the Supreme Court to a two-year jail term for graft, at the end of a trial closely monitored by the European Union. [via YahooNews] More >>

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