Ro-Mania News

Of all the 1989 anniversaries celebrated this year, the one that falls tomorrow will be at once the most bitter and the most sweet.

Bucharest Bucharest, Romania Romania will freeze salaries and will cut around 100,000 public sector jobs next year in order to meet the requirements attached to an IMF-led rescue deal, the designated Finance Minister, Sebastian Vladescu, said on Tuesday.

People knee to pray in Victoriei Square during a march for the victims of Romania's 1989 anti-communist revolt in Timisoara, 550 km west of Bucharest on December 17 2009.

Traian Basescu was sworn in Monday for a second five-year term as president of Romania, and a new coalition government has been named that should lead to the unblocking of international loans.

By Harald Schenker "No violence! No violence! Shoot, you thief, with your machine gun!" A few shots.

Fifteen of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who spent weeks refusing to get off the boat that rescued them near Indonesia have left the country, a foreign ministry official said on Sunday.

When it took over power in 2008, the Emil Boc government publicly, and repeatedly, condemned the precedent Tariceanu cabinet for its burdensome legacy of cash-strapped treasury, important debts to private suppliers and a deficit beyond 5 per cent GDP, from the 3 per cent GDP demanded by the European Union.

To the strains of strings playing Christmas carols, Romanians paid homage Wednesday to the fighters who took to the streets of this Transylvanian city 20 years ago, sparking the revolution that swept Eastern Europe's most repressive dictator from power.

As the white paper was torn away from the yellow wall, a wave of applause passed through the crowd.

Present at the event organized yesterday by the American Cultural Center "20 Years of Freedom and Democracy in Romania: A look back, a path forward," the US Ambassador to Bucharest cautioned that the revolution from Romania is not yet completed.

Prague/Vienna - The situation of Romanies in the Czech Republic is better than in some other EU countries, mainly in East Europe, Czech government official Gabriela Hrabanova told CTK today in reaction to an EU report, saying Czech Romanies are the most discriminated minority in the EU.

Both candidates in Romania's presidential run-off vote claimed victory on Sunday as exit polls put the result on a knife-edge. Romanians went to the ballot box hoping for an end to a political standoff that has held up crucial international aid for the recession-wracked European Union member.

Klaus Johannis, the successful mayor of this Transylvanian city, finds himself at the center of the bitterly fought presidential election here, even though he is not running for office and is not even ethnically Romanian.

Great Union Day December 1 is the national holiday of Romania. It commemorates the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba lulia.

Today is Sunday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2009. There are 25 days left in the year.

A leading MEP, the European Parliament's rapporteur on Croatia, warned that the country must convince the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that it is not keeping any "skeletons in the closet" from the recent Balkan fratricide wars.

BUCHAREST: Romania's leftist leader Mircea Geoana saw his chances of winning the December 6 presidential election run-off rise yesterday when his party won the backing of a centrist grouping to jointly form a new government.

Over 18 million eligible voters in Romania are expected to turn to polls on Sunday to elect a new president for the next five-year term.

Today is Monday, November 30, the 334th day of 2009. There are 31 days left in the year.

Romanians vote in a tight presidential election this Sunday amid voter skepticism that it will resolve months of political crisis, stalled reforms and persuade international lenders to resume loan aid.