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Romanian PM Ludovic Orban has been tested for COVID-19 for the second time and the test came out negative, the Government has announced on Tuesday morning. The members of the Cabinet have also tested negative. "Following this negative…

The package of measures announced by the Government to help companies and employees affected by the new coronavirus epidemic is exceeding RON 30 billion (over EUR 6 billion), which means over 2 percent of GDP, said the Head of the PM's…

The first website with official news about Coronavirus has been launched in Romania today: stirioficiale.ro,a partnership between Romania's Government through the Authority for Romania's Digitalisation, the Department for Emergency…

Two other new cases of the novel Coronavirus have been confirmed in Romania on Saturday, with the toll climbing to 99 countrywide. The last cases are a 53yo woman from Constanta, a laboratory doctor, who traveled to Austria and Germany,…

Three people working in the Government building at Victoria Palace in Bucharest are suspect of coronavirus, interim PM Ludovic Orban announced today, adding that an epidemiological inquiry is under way. Orban said it is a person working at…

President Klaus Iohannis has had a press statement about two hours after the PSD's censure motion had been voted and the Orban Cabinet had been toppled down. His statements: I think it is time to think a little bit what we…

The Parliament has adopted the censure motion filed by PSD and UDMR against the Liberal Cabinet led by Ludovic Orban, three months after it had been sworn in. The motion passed by 261 votes. 423 MPs attended the plenary session and 400…

The Orban Cabinet convened last evening in a marathon sitting lasting 9 hours, during which it adopted no less than 25 emergency ordinances. One of the GEOs refers to teachers who will have their wages increased as of this month, with…

Romanian authorities are entitled to deny, due to national security reasons, any drilling operations on oil and gas deposits in the Black Sea by legal entities controlled by non-EU countries, reads a draft emergency ordinance amending the…

The Government is preparing an emergency ordinance to enable law amendments in case of early elections. "I don't except PSD to raise the votes necessary for the censure motion, but better safe than sorry," said PM Ludovic Orban. In case…