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The leaders of the two coalition parties - Liviu Dragnea from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), who are forming the new Romanian government, as well as the appointed Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, announced on Tuesday the members of the new government, which will start work after it is approved by Parliament.

Two of the greatest football players in Romanian history - Gheorghe Hagi and Gheorghe Popescu confirmed their participation at the 50th birthday show organised by Bulgarian legend Hristo Stoichkov next year.

Stoichkov played with both Hagi and Popescu during his spell at FC Barcelona.

Romania will have the lowest price in Europe for medicine, following a 20 per cent cut for all medicine products, planned to take place starting from July, according to Health Minister Nicolae Banicioiu. The move follows the allignment of local pricing legislation with European Union norms.

"The Forest" documentary, by Sinisa Dragin, is a film "about how art can influence politics," said journalist and film critic Cristian Tudor Popescu on Thursday evening at Studio Cinema, where the first national screening of the production took place.

Romanian citizens regained their democratic sight on May 20, 1990, although a part of the public opinion still insists to remember the first democratic elections under the ironic title of "The Sunday of the Blind Man" and all the Romanian political parties of today, even if they had a complex history afterwards, had their roots in the elections that took place two decades and a half ago, said t

Consolidating the relations between Romania and Turkey and the security situation in the wider Black Sea region were the main topics of Thursday's official meeting in Istanbul between Romanian Defence Minister Mircea Dusa and his Turkish counterpart Ismet Yilmaz, according to a press release from the National Defence Ministry.

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The justices with the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) have decided on Thursday the 30-day arrest pending trial of Constanta mayor, social-democrat Radu Mazare, under investigation by the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) for bribery, interest conflicts and abuse in office.

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"The Chosen One," a film directed and produced by Cristian Comeaga has been included in the official selections of the North Hollywood Cinefest 2015 festival to be held at the Carl Laemmle Theater of Los Angeles, April 10-16.

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AGERPRES General Director Alexandru Giboi was heard by the Culture, Arts and Mass Media Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, on the technical error occurred in the brochure "Germany-Romania. 135 years of diplomatic relations."

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Deputies Iulian Iancu and Lucian Sova of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) are under criminal investigation in the case against Constitutional Court Judge Toni Grebla, anticorruption prosecutors announced on Thursday.

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