Romania's government

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, within the visit he is paying to the USA, had a working meeting on Wednesday with US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, informs a Government release remitted to AGERPRES.

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The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors have decided a dismissal of the case in the Flota - Fleet - file in which former president, Traian Basescu was also targeted, judicial sources told Agerpres on Thursday.

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UDMR ethnic Hungarian party, a junior partner in Romania's government coalition, has decided to leave it following the defeat of Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta in presidential elections.

Yet, Ponta's centre-left coalition will stay in power as its remaining members - the Social Democrats and two junior partners - together control 332 of the 579 seats in Parliament.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president with the support of the alliance made up with his Social Democrat Party (PSD) - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party, reminds he began governing on a budget deficit of 4.8 percent of the GDP in 2011, and says his successor will start from a budget surplus over the first 10 months of 2014; he hopes t

Romania's government on Monday pledged to take steps to make sure that citizens living or working abroad will have no trouble voting in the presidential runoff on November 16.

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Bulgaria and Romania have agreed to build two new bridges over the Danube River.

Romania's government has approved the signing of a memorandum with Bulgaria on the construction of the two bridges, according to news agencies Adjepress and Mediafax, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

Romania's government has allocated some 25 million lei (550,000 euro) to buy products needed to manage an Ebola-related health crisis.

AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca on Friday participated in the signing of the memorandum on Romania's Government funding the construction of the new building of the theatre of Cahul.

The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) director, George Cristian Maior on Friday said in Timisoara (northwest of Bucharest) that after the presidential elections he would submit his resignation from his position to the President-elect, deeming that this is normal and specifying that he was never asked to become Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday highlighted that Romania, as NATO member state, must have peaceful and good cooperation with all countries observing the international rules.