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CoD Petrescu to pay official visit to Netherlands

Romania's Chief of Defence Staff (CoD) Daniel Petrescu is paying an official visit to the Netherlands March 3-4. According to a press statement the National Defence Ministry (MApN) sent to AGERPRES, Petrescu is scheduled to meet Dutch Chief of Defence Rob Bauer to discuss bilateral co-operation inside NATO and the EU.

PSD announces COVID-19 Lockdown Tracker app monitoring quarantined subjects is completed

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) announced on Thursday the completion of the COVID-19 Lockdown Tracker app for monitoring the persons under a forced isolation or quarantine order. The app was developed by Alexandru Petrescu - leader of BMM Testlabs' global cybersecurity initiative - in cooperation with a group of Romanian cyber security experts. "Good news!

Acting CommMin calls discarding ministry totally uninspired decision as much European funds would be lost

Discarding the Ministry of Communications would be a mistake, given that it would lead to delays in the digitisation programmes and the loss of a large amount of European funds, said the acting Communications Minister Alexandru Petrescu told AGERPRES on Thursday.

Romanian Prison Warden Faces Trial for 102 Deaths

Romanian criminal prosecutors at the Supreme Court on Thursday indicted a former communist-era prison warden under whose watch 102 detainees - 90 of them political prisoners - were killed and buried in mass graves in the eastern Danube port of Galati between 1959 and 1961.

Retired Colonel Marian Petrescu, 86, is charged with inhuman treatment of detainees.

Senator Geoana: We will have soon a new parliamentary majority and a new government

Senator Mircea Geoana announced on Sunday at the launch of the Initiative Group for the New Social Democrat Project, that in the next two weeks there will be a new parliamentary majority and a new government.

Photo credit: (c) Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES PHOTO

According to Geoana, Romania will be condemned to underdevelopment if the fight against corruption will not go ahead.

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