Fitch assigned Romania's 5-year sovereign bond the 'BB+' rating. The country sold euro-denominated bonds worth € 1 Bn.

Follow any political debate on any Romanian TV channel, then follow any soccer debate on any Romanian TV channel. You'll be surprised how similar they are. You just have to replace the subjects of the sentences (political actors vs. football actors), an you've translated one dircourse into the other...

Russian gas giant Gazprom invited Romanian state-run gas operator Transgaz to join the South Stream project, according to Romania's Minister of Economy Adriean Videanu.

Romania's slow real estate market is paralleled by the hotel market. The owners of NH Hotel in Bucharest city centre keep lowering the price, but nobody wants to buy.

The name of Romania's notorious communist dictator Ceausescu has been used lately in the branding of such diverse things as hotel rooms, chocolate, or even condoms. But who is the real owner of this brand?

Prices of Romanian houses will continue their falling tendencies in 2010, real estate specialists predict.

A number of 6,000 Romanian companies have suspended operations during the month of January 2010, according to the Office of National Trade Registry.

Several piranha fishes might live in the 'Chios' lake, located in Cluj city centre, endangering other species. Two piranhas have been fished out from the lake last year, it has been revealed on Monday, 15^th February, 2010.

Two high-school teenagers work on the virtual reconstruction of Romania's major cities from the ground up.

Romanian carmaker Dacia is to produce Logan, Sandero, and Symbol models in a new plant that Renault wants to build in Algeria.

Romanian premier Emil Boc is to meet his Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Borissov on Friday, 12^th February, 2010, to reassess the development of Danube Bridge 2.

Toyota is recalling around 12,500 of its third-generation hybird cars in Romania because of concerns over a braking problem.

Romania's Department of Defense will follow the legal procedures needed to unclassify its documents related to the violent events that led to the fall of the communist regime in December 1989.

The federally-owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. has drawn a contract to assessing the viability of building two new reactors in Romania.

Unemployment rate rose in Romania in January 2010 to 8.1%, according to data by National Employment Agency (ANOFM).

Romanian PM Emil Boc asked the Health minister on Friday, 5^th February, 2010, to draw a bill that would extend the list of illegal psychedelic plants, whether or not such plants might have European Commission's approval.

Bucharest city's 'Casa Poporului' (People's House), the world's second largest building, could be turned into a shopping mall under new proposals.

President Traian Basescu announced on Thrusday, 4^th February 2010, that Romania is ready to sign an anti-missile deal proposed by US president Barack Obama.

Transylvania Highway's contractor Bechtel announced plans to cutting a number of 1933 jobs in county Cluj. National Railway company CFR, too, will leave 816 people jobless.

Fitch revised Romania's risk outlook to 'stable' from 'negative', on the basis of 'the improvement in external financial and economic conditions'.

The economy will see a moderate growth this year, and will only reach its peak growth potential, 5 or 6%, as late as 2012, says Mihai Tanasescu, Romanian representative of International Monetary Fund.

Romanian President Traian Basescu announced that a special agency will be created for the management of citizenship applications in the case of those who have owned this right and lost it later.

Romania will have a governmet within 10 days after the presidential election result will be validated, acording to Emil Boc, intermediary chief of the government.

Cluj ring road has been closed a couple of days after the opening.

Close battle for the Romanian presidency. The actual president Traian Basescu, supported by the Democrat – Liberal Party, has been reelected with 50.33% of votes, while his adversary, the social – democrat Mircea Geoana, has only 49.66% of votes.