Romania

Romania

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  AP Interview: Romanian president blasts corruption

  Romania risks always being treated like an outsider in Europe unless it tackles issues such as government corruption, the Eastern European nation's ... 

• Romania minister: We deserve to join Schengen

  Romania's foreign minister has warned Europe's leaders that excluding his country from the group of nations that allow their citizens to travel ... 

• Dutch police arrest Romanian in major art heist

  Dutch police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman in connection with a major art heist from the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam, ... 

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  Balkan neighbors observe spring rite

  Millions of Bulgarians and Romanians are observing a centuries-old regional custom, handing out spring charms to loved ones as they do every March 1. 

• Romania's top court sends 2 ex-ministers to jail

  Romania's highest court has upheld a three-year prison sentence for two former agriculture ministers convicted of bribery and influence peddling. 

• Undeclared horse meat found in Czech Republic

  The Czech Republic became the latest country to detect horse meat in food products labeled as beef in a widening European food labeling scandal, ... 

• Romania: alleged illegal trafficking of human eggs

  Police questioned 30 people on Tuesday and searched the homes of six employees of a private fertility clinic who are suspected of illegally ... 

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  Romanian movie 'Child's Pose' wins at Berlin fest

  A Romanian drama that centers on a woman's effort to cover up her son's responsibility for an accident in which a boy is fatally injured won the ... 

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  Rescuer defends Romania's horses from slaughter

  The name of his farm translates roughly as "Saving Horses from Wolves." But for Simion Craciun, the real predators are from the nearby slaughterhouse. 

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  Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain

  First, there was "pink slime." Then horsemeat. Most recently? "Desinewed meat." Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, ... 

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  UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal

  British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and ... 

• Court rules that ex Romanian ex-PM can be released

  A court has ruled that a former Romanian prime minister who shot himself in the neck as police came to pick him up to serve a two-year prison sentence ... 

• Romania produced 6,300 tons of horsemeat last year

  Romanian food safety officials say the country produced 6,300 tons of horse, mule and donkey meat last year, and that it was correctly labeled when ... 

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  Romania: Slaughterhouses did not commit fraud

  A maze of trading between meat wholesalers has made it increasingly difficult to trace the origins of food — enabling horsemeat disguised as beef to ... 

• France hunting fraudsters in horsemeat scandal

  Europe's horsemeat scandal is spreading and threatening cross-border tensions, as France says Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders were ... 

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  APNewsBreak: Flaws found in US missile shield

  Secret Defense Department studies cast doubt on whether a multibillion-dollar missile defense system planned for Europe will ever be able to protect ... 

• China honors Romania's former Securitate Chief

  China's embassy in Bucharest has ruffled feathers by honoring the last chief of Romania's much-loathed, communist-era secret police. Iulian Vlad, the ... 

• Romanian president rejects anti-corruption law

  Romania's president has vetoed legislation that critics said would make it harder to prosecute lawmakers accused of corruption. President Traian ... 

• Romanian air carrier flights in Italy suspended

  The owner of a Romanian air carrier says the company's flights have been suspended in Italy after an airliner ended up off the runway while landing ... 

• EU: Romania must progress on judicial independence

  An EU report says Romania must make further progress in ensuring the independence of its judiciary and in the battle against corruption. The report, ... 

• Romanians investigated in theft of Armani clothes

  Police say five Romanians are being questioned in the theft of €2 million ($2.68 million) worth of clothing from Italian designer Giorgio Armani's ... 

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  IMF tells Romania to push on with reforms

  The International Monetary Fund has called on the Romanian government to implement deeper structural reforms and to apply for more European Union ... 

• Romanian PM: Patients to pay fee for hospital stay

  Romania's prime minister says hospital patients will pay for treatment as part of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to reduce spending ... 

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  Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft

  A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ... 

• Interpol: We'll recover art stolen in Dutch heist

  The head of Interpol says he believes police will retrieve valuable paintings that were stolen from a museum in the Netherlands last year, including ...