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No shale gas production in the next five years, Romanian PM says

April 27, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania

Romania will not exploit its shale gas reserves in the next five years, but beyond this point it will have

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Bulgaria, Romania to update double taxation agreement

April 24, 2014April 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has approved a draft proposal to update the memorandum on avoiding double taxation with Romania, replacing the current

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Europe 

Romania increases gas production amid the Ukrainian crisis

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

The Romanian government has asked the two largest local gas producers – Petrom and Romgaz – to avoid maintenance work

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Romanian PM moves office to defence ministry to evade phone tapping

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romanian PM Victor Ponta said on April 14 he would relocate his office from the government seat to the headquarters

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Romanian PM threatens criminal complaint against president

April 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta said on April 14 that his social democrat party PSD would file a complaint against

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US naval destroyer expected to reach Black Sea by April 10 ‘to reassure US allies’

April 9, 2014April 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

A US Navy guided missile destroyer, the USS Donald Cook, is expected to reach the Black Sea by April 10

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Europe 

United States dispatches F-16s to Romania

April 7, 2014April 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Nato, Romania

The Pentagon will send an unspecified numbers of F-16 jet fighters to Romania next week to join military drills, but

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International police operation busts Romanian sex trafficking ring

April 6, 2014April 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

With the support of Europol, Belgian, Romanian and UK Police, Italian Carabinieri Reggruppamento Operativo Speciale (ROS) have dismantled a mafia-type

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Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey should boost co-operation in air policing to meet Russian flights – President Plevneliev

April 2, 2014April 6, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said that Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey should boost their co-operation in air policing in the

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