Claudia Stanescu

The Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) supports and joins the declaration of High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR) Federica Mogherini regarding the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, according to a press release sent on Saturday.

The anniversary of the Centennial must be a moment of "national awakening and rebirth," of changing attitudes and mentality in addressing the fundamental problems of the nation, for the benefit of the present, but especially of the future, Minister of Culture and National Identity George Ivascu said on Thursday evening at the "Romania at the Centennial" debate, organized by the Presidential Adm

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Thursday at a meeting with a delegation of the European Commission assessing Romania's progress with judiciary reform and the fight against corruption under the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) that he would like the CVM to be confined to its intended scope without being exported to other categories of mechanisms, adding that the obje

President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday said it is regrettable that the events and projects for the Centennial of Romania's December 1, 1918 Greater Union are being prepared in the absence of a legal framework that should have been adopted by Parliament.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday welcomed his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, on an official visit to Bucharest, at Cotroceni Palace.

Iohannis greeted Vucic in the Cotroceni Palace Ceremony Hall, where the two national anthems were played after a review of the Guard of Honour.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that discussing the statutes of prosecutors has become a "habit" in Romania, in which case he claims there is "deliberate" confusion in an attempt to weaken the independence of prosecutors.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Tuesday welcomed French ambassador to Bucharest Michele Ramis at the Government House, announcing an intention for the roadmap to the Strategic Partnership Statement between Romania and France to be updated this year.

In Chisinau on Friday, Romanian Senator Titus Corlatean, chairman of the Select Committee on Coordination of Parliamentary Activities for Preparing the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council in the First Half of 2019, unveiled the actions of Romania in support of the European and Euro-Atlantic projects of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, underlining the legitimacy of the European aspirations of the

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said in Bucharest on Thursday that much has been achieved over the past 20 years in terms of reinforcing the judiciary.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Melescanu on Monday chaired the meeting of the Group for European Action of the Republic of Moldova (GAERM), informed MAE in a press release.

The meeting was organized in Brussels on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council, where the Moldovan Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovschi was the main guest.