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Romania's public debt stood at 44.1 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 65.94 billion euros, on December 31, 2014, compared with the 54.38 billion euros recorded at end-2012, showed the Court of Accounts' Report on the management of the public debt over 2012-2014 by the Ministry of Public Finances (MFP), as published on Friday.

Nearly one third of Romanians consider Justice is the most important institution of democracy, found an INSCOP Barometer conducted by pollster Inscop Research at the commission of "Adevarul" daily.

The Palace of Justice in Bucharest
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As many as 75.7 per cent of Romanians agree that NATO membership protects Romania against national security threats, while 45.9 per cent of them expect the US to be Romania's main ally in case of such threats, according to the findings of a recent Inscop poll released on Monday.

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The National Association for Rural, Ecological and Cultural Tourism (ANTREC) is conducting the 25th edition of the "Countryside Vacations" programme, in the period May 3 - June 19, 2015, and the prices start from 175 lei per person for five nights in 2 daisy guest houses.

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The electricity market mechanism implemented in Romania contributes to the safe operation of the national electricity system, enabling it to dependably cover consumption needs, Marian Cernat, director of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), told the Forum of Electricity Network Operators and Power Suppliers.

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Under the project "Entrepreneurship - the chance of a better future for youth," offers EU funding for 40 startups and entrepreneurial training for 400 young people, president of the Travel Focus Romania Association Razvan Pascu said on Tuesday at the launch of the project.

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Prosecutors with the Prosecution Office of the Bucharest Court of Appeal have ordered the start of a criminal investigation into the Romanian Lottery over unauthorised or unlicensed slot-machine gambling in 2006-2014 that involved 6,263 such machines and damage estimated at RON 463 million.

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The first day of the month of March is the festival of the martisor. The martisor is a symbolical calendar, represented by a two-colour piece of string, which gathers the days, weeks and months of the year in two seasons, winter and summer, and is given as a gift on March 1, the day of Dochia, the millennia-old beginning of the agrarian year.

The 'povidla' of Bargau is the plum jam produced on the Bargau Valley of Bistrita-Nasaud County in northern Romania; its shelf life is remarkable - at least two years, with no sugar or preservatives added.

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The first episode of a documentary broadcast by the British Channel 4 on February 17 was not representative for the Romanian community of the United Kingdom, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) declared in a release to AGERPRES on Sunday.

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