Cotroceni Palace

Premier Victor Ponta said on Thursday that the possibility that Romania be assigned the EU Humanitarian Aid portfolio was never tackled in Brussels.

President Traian Basescu said on Friday that he would voice in the European Council, on Saturday, supporting Ukraine with military equipment so that this country may meet the aggression from the Russian Federation, as well as imposing a new round of sanctions on Russia.

Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Victor Ponta declared on Friday at the Congress of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) that he doesn't consider Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, himself a candidate for President, as a "political enemy."

President Traian Basescu on Monday declared an analysis revealed that the terrorist group that shot is guilty of last week's downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane in Ukraine, and Russia is equally guilty, because it provided experts and the necessary equipment for the attack.