HotNews.ro journalist Robert Mihailescu was kicked and punched by gendarmes during violent incidents on the margins on a major anti-government protest in Bucharest on Friday. He was attacked after the riot police launched an intervention against protesters, when people on social media said – with video proof – that peaceful demonstrators were hit by police forces without justification.
Prime Minister Viorica Dancila declared on Wednesday that at Romania’s Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT) meeting, she discussed with President Klaus Iohannis only about the items on the agenda, specifying that the topic of the security institutions’ budgets was not tackled. Asked if during the CSAT meeting she tried…
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Former Vice Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea was re-elected, at the Extraordinary National Conference of the party held on Wednesday, as the National Union for Romania’s progress (UNPR) Chairman, according to a press release issued by the party. On this occasion, Gabriel Oprea thanked to his party fellows and on Wednesday…
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Prime Minister Viorica Dancila declared on Wednesday that Romania’s motto at the Presidency of the Council of the European Union will be “Cohesion, a common European value”. “Two weeks ago, we pleaded from this tribune for a united, better and European Romania. I come today in front of you with…
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Opposition parties will table the no-confidence motion on Friday, so that the document – signed by 163 MPs – will be read during the joint plenary meeting of the Legislative next Monday and will be put to the vote next Thursday. “This no-confidence motion is an awaited motion and a…
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