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A SPP NCO was found shot dead in Libya, where he was on duty, on an international protection mission under the UN aegis. He was found dead in his room inside the UN base. The Protection and Guard Service (SPP) ...

In 2017, the proportion of young people in the European Union (EU) aged 15-29 living in overcrowded households was estimated to be 26.7 %. This is just over 9 percentage points higher than the overcrowding rate for the population as ...

Several localities and county councils in the counties of Maramures, Satu Mare, Salaj and Bistrita want to launch, by January 15, 2019, an association called ‘Northern Transylvania Province’ with the aim to consolidate the state by the region’s economic development. ...

PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea has mentioned an investment fund of EUR 10 billion within the party’s Executive Committee held on Monday. The statement comes amid the information that the Government has decided to supplement the budget of the Labour Ministry ...

The first train Transylvania EuroCity connecting Cluj-Napoca to Vienna (via Budapest) inaugurated the journey on Sunday. CFR Calatori, in partnership with the rail companies ÖBB (Austria) and MÁV-START (Hungary) have reached a deal to collaborate for the new route to ...

The Confederation of Authorized Operators and Carriers in Romania (COTAR) has asked again President Iohannis to sign the revocation of the Transports minister Lucian Sova and to name the new proposed minister. In a press release issued on Friday, COTAR ...

The supporters of Politehnica Timisoara football club (western Romania) intend to draw attention on the problems homeless people face by spending a night, in the cold, on the stadium. The supporters want to show solidarity with homeless people and will ...

Turkish journalist Kamil Demirkaya, employed at Zaman Romania publication, who had been taken into custody by the Romanian authorities while facing extradition, has been heard at the Bucharest Court of Appeal on Thursday, saying he is opposing the extradition and ...

Four earthquakes took place on Wednesday in Romania, the National Institute for Research and Development for Earth Physics (INFP) reports. The strongest quake occurred at 2.17h in Vrancea region, with a magnitude de 3.8 degrees on Richter scale, at a ...

The Romanians are the most religious Europeans, 55% of them being ‘very religious’, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, published on Wednesday and taken over by DPA (German Press Agency). According to the Pew Research Center’s ...