Romanian president Klaus Iohannis will on Wednesday start
\nan official four days visit to Germany to participate in a European conference
\non security issues. This is not the first time when president Iohannis, who is
\nan ethnic Geman in Romania, pays a formal visit to Germany. In fact Germany was
\nthe first country Iohannis went to shortly after the beginning of his mandate
\nback in 2014. In February last year, Iohannis met German chancellor Angela
\nMerkel in Berlin for talks on Romania’s accession to the travel-free area of
\nSchengen and the fight against terrorism. Romanian Prime Minister, Dacian
\nCiolos, also paid a visit to Germany on January 7th, having high on the agenda
\nways of strengthening bilateral relations and the common objectives in the
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Iran wants Romanian investment in its oil&gas industry, as
\nwell as in its construction field, Iranian ambassador in Bucharest Hamid
\nMoayyer said in an interview with our radio station. According to him, if
\nRomania invested in the oil and gas exploitation industry it could import
\nnatural resources from Iran at a much cheaper price. The ambassador has also
\nreferred to what he called the excellent relations Romania and Iran used to
\nhave in the past before the Western embargo imposed on Iran for its
\ncontroversial nuclear programme. The international sanctions against Teheran
\nwere conditionally lifted in January 2016, shortly after the International
\nAtomic Energy Agency had published a report proving that Teheran reduced its
\nnuclear activity observing the agreement signed last year with the great
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NATO will continue
\nto offer support to the Republic of Moldova for modernising its defence and
\nensure its security – NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said
\nin Brussels during the talks with Andrei Galbur, Deputy Prime Minister and
\nForeign Minister of the Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet Romanian-speaking
\ncountry. The NATO official has assured Galbur of the Alliance’s support for
\nMoldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Also high on the talks agenda
\nwere the partnership between NATO and Moldova and the setting up of a NATO
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Prosecutors have today announced the beginning of a
\ncriminal investigation against Romania’s former Prosecutor General Tiberiu Nitu
\nfor conspiracy to abuse of office in a file on the illegal use of official
\nmotorcades, which also involves former deputy Prime Minister and Interior
\nMinister Gabriel Oprea. Nitu stepped down last week after his being involved in
\nthe Oprea file. According to Romania’s Anti-corruption Agency DNA, Nitu illegally
\nused motorcades 700 times while traveling across the country, from April 2014
\nuntil November 2015. Nitu explained he benefited from the official motorcades
\nunder a protocol signed upon the initiative of minister Oprea, who has been
\nunder criminal investigation also for abuse of office since February 5th. The
\nDNA investigation started in October 2015, when a policeman died while being
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Romania’s Central Bank has revised its
\ninflation forecast for the end of this year up to 1.4%, 0.3% higher than the
\nprevious estimate of 1.1%, Central Bank governor Mugur Isarescu has announced.
\nThe bank official has reconfirmed the quarterly report on inflation and its
\ndownward trend in the following months, whose main cause is the cut in the VAT
\nand other taxes. The bank has forecast an inflation rate of 3.4% in 2017, its
\nmain target being 2.5%. <\/p>\n
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\nleast eight people have died and 55 have been seriously wounded after two
\ncommuter trains collided in southern Germany, police have today announced. The
\ncrash happened near the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling on Tuesday. Several
\ncarriages overturned after the trains that were travelling in opposite
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