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On Thursday, the Save Bucharest Union (USB) launched its candidates for Bucharest’s district mayoralties. The candidates are: Clotilde Armand (District 1), Antoaneta Bugner (District 2), Roxana Wring (District 3), Dumitru Dobrev (District 4), Florin Grigorescu (District 5) and Mihai Danes (District 6). They are joined by Nicusor Dan, USB’s candidate for the Bucharest City Hall. […]

Parliament’s vote on the appointment of the Romanian Broadcasting Company’s (TVR) President and CEO has been postponed by another week, after TVR’s Board failed to nominate a person and Parliament’s Culture Commissions were unable to sort things out. The members of TVR’s Board gave six votes to Monica Ghiurco (employees’ representatives) and Doina Gradea (PSD’s […]

Parliament convened on Tuesday evening in order to elect the new head of the public television channel, after the decision was postponed because of a lack of quorum last week. Last Tuesday, lawmakers voted the public television channel’s new Board, and elected George Orbean, the Government’s representative, as President and CEO. Orbean failed to obtain […]

The Chamber of Deputies and Senate Culture committees on Tuesday gave a negative opinion for nominee for president and CEO of the Romanian National Television Broadcasting Corporation (SRTv) George Orbean; Orbean’s bid was voted down 18 to 15. The new Administration Board of the Romanian National Television Broadcasting Corporation had nominated Orbean for president and […]

The parliamentary groups’, presidency’s and government’s nominations for the Board of the Romanian Television Company ended up within the joint Standing Bureaus of the Lower Chamber and the Senate on Monday, with the proposed Board members set to be heard within the Culture Commissions on Tuesday morning, and the voting to take place within the […]

Independent media are one of the most valuable assets of democracy, says German Ambassador Werner Hans Lauk, who sees 2016 as a very important year for Romania, with two elections (local and parliamentary) scheduled. “Only where citizens benefit from correct information selected responsibly there is a base to find about and evaluate the work of […]

Independent media are one of the most valuable assets of democracy, says German Ambassador Werner Hans Lauk, who sees 2016 as a very important year for Romania, with two elections (local and parliamentary) scheduled. “Only where citizens benefit from correct information selected responsibly there is a base to find about and evaluate the work of […]

Social Democrat Senator Georgica Severin, chairman of the Upper House Committee on culture and media, says that not only the political and social life is divided, but mass media too no longer shows solidarity. “One of the biggest issues we face is this division that is manifest not only in political and social life, but […]

The government considers that solutions in the very short term are needed to address the issues of the National Television Broadcasting Corporation (SRTv), Premier Dacian Ciolos said on Tuesday at the debate on the financial situation of the corporation. Ciolos pointed out that writing off the corporation’s debt via a financial support from the state […]

The National Tax Administration Agency (ANAF) will take the steps to put up to auction the goods seized following the sentence of the Bucharest Court of Appeals in the case of Dan Voiculescu, namely the headquarters of Intact TV channels, the ANAF announced on Friday after meeting with representatives of Antena TV Group. ANAF executives […]