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Romania News Watch: October 2014
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Thursday, October 30, 2014. Romania's ruling party member detained for suspected corruption. BUCHAREST, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) - Former vice president of Romania's Deputies Chamber Viorel Hrebenciuc was detained for 24 hours on Tuesday by anti-corruption prosecutors, after several hours of hearings in a case of alleged illegal forest restitution. DNA also prosecuted Hrebenciuc in another case of influence peddling. Hrebenciu...
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Romania News Watch: May 2015
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Romania's Ponta eyes new pact with ally ahead of election. BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrat party (PSD) will seal a new partnership with a junior ally on Thursday, looking to secure its grip on power before a national election in 2016, party sources told Reuters. Our party is likely to overwhelmingly endorse a protocol to run on joint electoral lists with UNPR in both munici...
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Romania News Watch: NYT: Romanian Ex-Minister Suspected of Accepting Renoir as Bribe
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Saturday, March 28, 2015. NYT: Romanian Ex-Minister Suspected of Accepting Renoir as Bribe. BUCHAREST, Romania — Prosecutors detained Romania's previous finance minister Wednesday on suspicion that he took bribes, including gold bars and a painting by French Impressionist Auguste Renoir, when he was mayor of a southern town. He was detained for 24 hours. Prosecutors want to arrest Sova on suspicion that as a senator he...
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Romania News Watch: FT: Romanian twins throw wrench in US-EU trade deal?
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Friday, April 3, 2015. FT: Romanian twins throw wrench in US-EU trade deal? Meet the Miculas: two twin brothers, Ioan and Viorel, whose battle with EU law will be of interest to anyone following Europe’s fitful trade negotiations. The duo’s battle to save their beer-to-biscuits food empire in northern Romania may not seem an obvious proxy for an increasingly bitter fight. Over the EU’s trade deals with the US. Because ...
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Romania News Watch: Romania's Ponta eyes new pact with ally ahead of election
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Thursday, May 7, 2015. Romania's Ponta eyes new pact with ally ahead of election. BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrat party (PSD) will seal a new partnership with a junior ally on Thursday, looking to secure its grip on power before a national election in 2016, party sources told Reuters. Our party is likely to overwhelmingly endorse a protocol to run on joint electoral lists with UNPR in both munici...
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Romania News Watch: Romania's corruption fight puts the brakes on investment
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Romania's corruption fight puts the brakes on investment. BUCHAREST, April 8 (Reuters) - Romania's crackdown on corruption is having an unintended consequence: investment is slowing as many officials avoid approving projects lest they become the next target of the investigators. The latest casualty in the fight against graft is Finance Minister Darius Valcov, who resigned last month after bein...
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Romania News Watch: Former Romanian presidential candidate Udrea charged with corruption while minister
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Former Romanian presidential candidate Udrea charged with corruption while minister. BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors said on Tuesday they had indicted former presidential candidate Elena Udrea on charges of accepting bribes and abuse of power from 2010 to 2012 while she served as regional development minister. The bribes outlined by prosecutors, some in Romania's le...
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Romania News Watch: February 2015
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Sunday, February 22, 2015. The art of exclusion. A wall that segregated a town's Roma becomes an “art project”—which still segregates the town's Roma. Posted by Romania News Watch. Labels: Society and Culture. Friday, February 20, 2015. Romania anti-sleaze drive reaches elite. The long faces emerging from the building resemble a soap opera procession of the once high and mighty. Eight years after joining the EU, and 13...
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Romania News Watch: April 2015
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Crusading women blaze justice trail in post-Soviet Romania. BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Prosecutor Denisa Cristodor made history last fall, launching Romania's first case against a communist-era prison guard suspected of crimes against humanity. Under communism, the justice system was a man's domain - which shielded fellow men in the ruling elite. That began to change with the advent of dem...
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Romania News Watch: TOL: Shaken by Court Ruling, Romanian Church Comes Roaring Back
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International Media Watch of news headlines and current affairs reports about Romania. Saturday, March 28, 2015. TOL: Shaken by Court Ruling, Romanian Church Comes Roaring Back. With the public firmly on the side of teaching religion in school, the debate shifts to the rights of non-Orthodox students. Under the law, children could not be required to take religion, but until last year parents who wished to remove their children from the classes had to opt out by submitting a request to the school. On the ...