Romanian President Traian Basescu will address the Romanian Parliament on Tuesday, when he plans to deliver a message on domestic affairs issues. This is the President's first message to the joint plenary session of the two Parliament Chambers during his second mandate.

Movies opening this week-end: Resident Evil: Afterlife, Mar Nero, Tuesday after Christmas

Romanian media owner Sorin Ovidiu Vantu will be released from arrest, where he was sent initially for 29 days last Thursday, the Appeal Court has recently decided. Two other individuals who were also arrested, Ovidu Turcan and Alexandru Stoian, will be freed along with Vantu.

The Bucharest sector 2 City Hall plans to build a cable car ('telegondola') crossing the northern Bucharest lakes and is preparing the bid to choose the company which will offer consultancy for the zonal urban planning needed for the project. The consultancy fee will reach EUR 150,000. The consultancy bid will take place on September 20.

Local independent taxi drivers will organize a protest today in Constitutiei Square in Bucharest, between 10,00 and 14,00 hours, when around 4,000 taxi drivers are expected to rally. These independent taxi drivers, who are working as self employed (PFA) will protest against the decision to pay the social contributions retroactively, for the last five years.

The European Union has condemned the French government over its treatment of Roma migrants, comparing it to the Roma expulsion atrocities committed during the second world war.

The French government claims that most European Union states oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area before the monitoring mechanism is lifted, after the foreign ministers of member states on Monday recommended its extension, writes website EurActiv.com.

Romanian public servants will go on general strike indefinitely starting Monday, September 27, said Sebastian Oprescu, head of the National Union of Public Servants (SNFP), adding public servants are starving and are heavily indebted.

The recent discovery of a new species of dinosaurs in Alba county in Romania soon triggered the idea of a dinosaur museum in the Western Romanian city of Cluj - Napoca. Matei Vremir (Vremir Matyas), the Cluj – Napoca based paleontologist who discovered the stocky dragon skeleton in Alba county, has already been contacted by several museums in the world, among which the Natural History Museum in New York, interested in receiving copies of the skeleton discovered by the Romanian

Over 60 percent of Romanians would send their children to study abroad, according to a research conducted by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategies. According to the poll, 61 percent of Romanians have a bad opinion about the Romanian education system and only 36 percent trust it. The poll also shows that 61 percent of respondents would send their children to study abroad.

Romanian President Traian Basescu will address the Romanian Parliament on Tuesday, when he plans to deliver a message on domestic affairs issues. This is the President's first message to the joint plenary session of the two Parliament Chambers during his second mandate.

Movies opening this week-end: Resident Evil: Afterlife, Mar Nero, Tuesday after Christmas

Romanian media owner Sorin Ovidiu Vantu will be released from arrest, where he was sent initially for 29 days last Thursday, the Appeal Court has recently decided. Two other individuals who were also arrested, Ovidu Turcan and Alexandru Stoian, will be freed along with Vantu.

The Bucharest sector 2 City Hall plans to build a cable car ('telegondola') crossing the northern Bucharest lakes and is preparing the bid to choose the company which will offer consultancy for the zonal urban planning needed for the project. The consultancy fee will reach EUR 150,000. The consultancy bid will take place on September 20.

Local independent taxi drivers will organize a protest today in Constitutiei Square in Bucharest, between 10,00 and 14,00 hours, when around 4,000 taxi drivers are expected to rally. These independent taxi drivers, who are working as self employed (PFA) will protest against the decision to pay the social contributions retroactively, for the last five years.

The European Union has condemned the French government over its treatment of Roma migrants, comparing it to the Roma expulsion atrocities committed during the second world war.

The French government claims that most European Union states oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area before the monitoring mechanism is lifted, after the foreign ministers of member states on Monday recommended its extension, writes website EurActiv.com.

Romanian public servants will go on general strike indefinitely starting Monday, September 27, said Sebastian Oprescu, head of the National Union of Public Servants (SNFP), adding public servants are starving and are heavily indebted.

The recent discovery of a new species of dinosaurs in Alba county in Romania soon triggered the idea of a dinosaur museum in the Western Romanian city of Cluj - Napoca. Matei Vremir (Vremir Matyas), the Cluj – Napoca based paleontologist who discovered the stocky dragon skeleton in Alba county, has already been contacted by several museums in the world, among which the Natural History Museum in New York, interested in receiving copies of the skeleton discovered by the Romanian

Over 60 percent of Romanians would send their children to study abroad, according to a research conducted by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategies. According to the poll, 61 percent of Romanians have a bad opinion about the Romanian education system and only 36 percent trust it. The poll also shows that 61 percent of respondents would send their children to study abroad.