Sorin Cîmpeanu

The stake in Education is to achieve, through the "Educated Romania" project, whose implementation will be approved by the Government this week, "the 21st century education for the 21st century Romania", Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Monday at the opening ceremony of the new school year at the "Gheorghe Lazar" National College, the first high school in Bucharest that carries out a pilot pr

President Klaus Iohannis called, on Thursday, a work session regarding the start of the new school year, where the Minister of Health, Ioana Mihaila, as well as the Minister of Education, Sorin Cimpeanu, will take part in. According to the Presidential Administration, the reunion was summoned for 17:00, at Cotroceni Palace.

A number of 55,000 pupils aged between 16 and 18 have been immunised against COVID, Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu informs on Wednesday. Thus, 13,000 pupils aged 16, 17,000 pupils aged 17 and 25,000 aged 18 got vaccinated. AGERPRES (RO - author: Roberto Stan, editor: Mihai Simionescu; EN - editor: Adina Panaitescu)

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday said, with respect to the reopening of schools, that the situation is good and pointed out that it is important that the imposed restrictions continue to be observed. "We looked at the schools in Romania that were reopened for face to face classes for the second semester and I can tell you that the situation is good.

Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu declared on Monday for AGERPRES that the "zero emergency" represents the possibility of "prioritized opening" of schools and the construction of the budget for education for 2021. "Emergencies range from early education to university education, from equity to performance.

Pro Romania Chairman Victor Ponta stated on Monday that Prime Minister Viorica Dancila proposed him to endorse the Social Democratic Party's (PSD) candidate in the presidential elections and he said that there hadn't been a negative or positive response because he wanted to know what the plan was "in view of things unfolding well." Ponta argued on the TVR 1 national television channel that in t

Pro-Romania national leader Victor Ponta, a candidate in the elections to the European Parliament, tells AGERPRES in an interview that replacing Liviu Dragnea as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies is a priority for the party he leads. "A priority is replacing Mr Dragnea from the Chamber of Deputies (...) Actually, Achilles' heel is there if you want to be successful.

Consultations over a new Romanian prime minister are to be concluded this week, as analysts and officials predicted that a technocratic cabinet could be put in place until the next elections are held in December 2016.

Sorin Cîmpeanu will be Romania's new interim PM after Victor Ponta stepped down on Wednesday, state-run Agerpres agency has said.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday appointed Cîmpeanu, who until now was Ministry of Education.

Ponta stepped down on Wednesday morning after a deadly incident at a Bucharest nightclub triggered mass street protests against his government.

The liberal deputy, Raluca Turcan deems that the Emergency Ordinance (OUG) by which the regime of the scientific titles is regulated was given by the Government to 'serve Prime Minister Ponta' and asks the Ombudsman, Victor Ciorbea to "turn the OUG back."