Mihnea Motoc

Sergeant Bogdan Dragomir, injured in the Saturday’s incident in Afghanistan (where other two Romanian soldiers have been killed) is admitted in stable condition in a medical centre in Germany and no vital organ is affected, the Romanian…

Two Romanian military were killed and a third one was injured near Kandahar city on Saturday, during a mission for the training of Afghan police, the National Defence Ministry informs in a release. Following the incident, the three…

Bulgaria, Greece and Romania will take concrete measures to enhance their defence cooperation. This was agreed at a meeting of the defence ministers of the three Balkan member states of the EU, which took place in Luxembourg on Monday,…

Romania wants NATO to approve during the July summit in Warsaw the rotational presence in Romania of a multinational brigade and a common fleet in the Black Sea (called for diplomatic reasons ‘enhanced cooperation’) with the participation…

Defence Minister Mihnea Motoc presented the Defence ministry activity report on 2015 and the main goals for this year on Thursday in a meeting also attended by President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos and Chief of General…

Romania will buy twelve more F-16 fighter jets, probably second-hand. This year the Ministry of Defence is preparing the procedures for the acquisition of the jets, Minister Mihnea Motoc said for Europa FM. The auction will take place next…

Prime Minister Victor Ponta has reconsidered his nomination of Mihnea Motoc as Foreign Minister (FM) and has instead proposed Bogdan Aurescu, State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for this position. According to a press…

Teodor Melescanu resigned on Tuesday from the foreign minister position, arguing it is an honorable move for not all Romanians in Diaspora succeeded in voting in the runoff. He said he came to this decision “in a country where nobody takes…