Romanian Senate

At a joint news conference with visiting India's Vice-President Venkaiah M. Naidu at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Wednesday, President Klaus Iohannis said that while holding the presidency of the Council of the Union European Union Romania will explore avenues to bring India and the European Union closer together.

India's Vice President Venkaiah M. Naidu was welcomed by President Klaus Iohannis in the Hall of Honour of the Cotroceni Presidential Palace on Wednesday.

The meeting of the two officials was followed by one-on-one talks, as well as a joint news conference.

Romania and Latvia are full member states of the EU and NATO and work together to achieve the same fundamental liberal values inside the two bodies, Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu told a news conference on Thursday at the end of a meeting in Bucharest with his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics.

Romanian Senate on Tuesday will open for three days, April 17-19, the first Parliamentary Summit of the Bucharest Format (B9).

The event was co-organized by the Romanian Senate Speaker, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, together with the Marshal of the Senate of the Polish Republic, Stanislaw Karczewski.

BUCHAREST - Meeting with Romanian Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu and Chamber of Deputies President Liviu Dragnea in Bucharest on Thursday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia was expecting Romania to support its EU path in the future as well.

Senate's President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Thursday said during his meeting with the European Commission's First Vice President, Frans Timmermans, at the Parliament's seat, that the amendment of the criminal codes (Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, ed.

A bill submitted by Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party, PSD, requires non-governmental organizations to declare their sources of funding every six months or face dissolution, causing great concern among civic activists and opposition party politicians in Bucharest. 

A bill proposed by Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party to change the way the national public news agency, Agerpres, operates, could leave it vulnerable to political pressure, media freedom activists warned. 

The Culture and Media Committee of the Romanian Senate on Wednesday passed the bill submitted by Culture Minister Lucian Romascanu and four other Social Democrat MPs.

Bulgaria's Parliament Chair Tsetska Tsacheva and a delegation of MPs will pay an official visit to Romania on June 8-9, 2015.

On June 8 Tsacheva will meet with Valeriu Zgonea, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament, according to the press office of Bulgaria's government.

The meeting will also be attended by Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

President of the Romanian Senate Calin Popescu Tariceanu on Thursday and Friday took part in the 16th meeting of the Association of European Senates in the Hague, the Senate reports in a press release.

Photo credit: (c) GRIGORE POPESCU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE