Blogs your waySofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A new ferry line connecting Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube River will be put into operations on Friday. The ferry boat complex connecting Bulgaria's town of Nikopol and Romania's Turnu Magurele will be officially launched by the prime ministers of Bulgaria and Romania Boyko Borisov and Emil Boc. The distance between the two ferry stations is 800 m....
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 02/26/2010
Bulgaria's Economy Minister Traicho Traikov and his Romanian counterpart Adrian Videanu met in Sofia on Friday. Romania's Economy and Energy Minister Videanu was in Sofia as part of the top-level Romanian government delegation led by PM Emil Boc. Several projects of major importance for both countries have been the matter of the talks of Traikov and Videanu in Sofia including, the gas network connection...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 02/19/2010
As EurActiv reported, Romanian Health Minister Attila Czeke announced in January that he will introduce a fast-food tax in March as a way to improve the country's health programmes ( EurActiv 07/01/10 ). Despite being the first country ever to come up with fiscal measures to fight against obesity and other diet-realted diseases, EPHA said in an open letter addressed to Romanian Prime Minister Emil...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
Bucharest - Romania's parliament Wednesday confirmed the new minority government of Prime Minister Emil Boc, barely two months after the previous cabinet led by Boc failed to win parliament's confidence. The new coalition cabinet of Boc's liberal PD-...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 12/21/2009
Newly appointed Prime Minister Emil Boc has submitted his cabinet nominations to the Romanian parliament on Sunday. Boc had been re-appointed last week to the position of PM by President Traian Basescu, following his own re-election in a December 6 run-off poll against contender Mircea Geoana. The designated ministers will face parliament on Tuesday, and a vote of confidence is expected the following...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/20/2009
Bucharest - Romania's Prime Minister-designate, Emil Boc, unveiled his prospective cabinet on Sunday. The list will be presented to parliament next week for a confirmation vote on Wednesday. ...
France24 (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday designated Emil Boc as prime minister and asked him to form a new government before Christmas. "I have signed the decree naming Mr Boc as the new prime minister", Basescu said in an address, adding that he hoped the government could be sworn in before December 23. Liviu Negoita stood down as Romania's previously designated prime minister on Wednesday...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Lucian Croitoru, Romania's former representative to the International Monetary Fund, has become the country’s new PM. President Traian Basescu named Croitoru to head the goverenment after the collapse of Emil Boc's centre-right administration in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday. An economist by training and currently advisor to the head of the Romanian central bank BNR, Croitoru was Bucharest's...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The collapse of Prime Minister Emil Boc’s centrist government further undermined the economy and reinforced a sense of political upheaval in the region.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The vote of no confidence on Tuesday toppled Prime Minister Emil Boc's centrist government, the first time a government in Romania has been dismissed since the fall of Communism in 1989.
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The Romanian center-right cabinet of Emil Boc was ousted Tuesday after the Parliament approved the no-confidence vote filed by the opposition. The news was reported Tuesday afternoon by the Bulgarian information agency BGNES. The ousting comes less than a month before the presidential elections in the country scheduled for November 22. ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Bucharest - Romania's opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) on Thursday filed a motion of no confidence in parliament against the minority government of Prime Minister Emil Boc. Two weeks before, the governing coalition consisting of Boc's centrist...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Bucharest - A breakup of Romania's grand coalition loomed Tuesday when the socialist party PSD threatened to withdraw its ministers from the cabinet if Premier Emil Boc moved to dismiss Interior Minister Dan Nica of the PSD. PSD chairman Micrea Geoan...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
The Nabucco intergovernmental agreement signing ceremony and summit began in Turkish capital city Ankara on Monday. During the summit at the newly-built Rixos Hotel in Ankara, an intergovernmental agreement will be signed by Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria for the Nabucco Project which will transport natural gas to Austria via Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Georgian...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
The Social Democrats won the largest number of seats in the June 7 poll in Romania and all the 33 elected for the future European Parliament are confirmed with a certificate on Thursday. Head of the Central Electoral Bureau Vasile Alixandri handed the representatives of Romania in the European Parliament the certificates of MEPs, in the presence of President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Emil Boc,...
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