Tuesday, May 27th

Preliminary results in Romania's EU elections

Romania's Central Elections Bureau (BEC) centralised 99.99 percent of voting results from 18,722 polling stations across the country. The governing PSD (Social Democratic Party) - UNPR (National Union for the Progress of Romania) - PC (Coservative Party) alliance won 37.60 percent of the votes followed by the opposition right wing National Liberal Party (PNL) with 12.23 percent, opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PD-L) with 12.23 percent of the votes, independent candidate Mircea Diaconu - 6.81 percent, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) - 6.30% and the Peoples' Movement with 6.21 percent of the votes, BEC spokesman Marian Muhuleţ said on Tuesday as quoted by RADIO ROMANIA. Other candidates found themselves below the 5% margin. Another BEC meeting is expected on Wednesday while final results could be announced on Thursday, Mr. Muhuleţ added. However, BEC was also expected to consider potential complaints while also deciding the redistribution of mandates the winning parties could get from political groups failing to hit the required 5 percentage-point margin.

Romania's President goes to Brussels

Romanian President Traian Băsescu flew to Brussels on Tuesday in order to attend a working dinner of EU leaders in the European Council. The meeting will focus on results of the EU elections last weekend. But talks concerning the future head of the European Commission are also expected as any future European Commission president will need approval both from EU heads of state or government and from the MEPs. Most EU votes went to the right wing European People's Party (EPP) though its candidates failed to reach the necessary majority. EPP is followed by PES (Party of European Socialists) and both EPP and PES said they were ready to co-operate in order to prevent the surprising rise of euroskeptic far-right parties who claimed a historic victory in the EU elections, RADIO ROMANIA reported.

Romania, home of one of the world's fastest internet speed

Romania is provinding one of the world's fastest internet at lowest prices when compared to other European countries, Cătălin Marinescu, head of the country's National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), said on Tuesday as quoted by RADIO ROMANIA. Authorities in Bucharest expect to receive at least a half billion euro from the European Commission between 2014 and 2020 which adds to the country's own contribution, Romanian Minister for Information Society Răzvan Cotovelea pointed out. The fast speed internet project known as broadband is also expected to reach 'white areas'. The 84 million euro project of Ro-Net is also expected to go on while ensuring investements in SMEs through government subsidies and European funds", Răzvan Cotovelea said at a conference on Information Is Power: Information Tools for Telecom Consumers organised by telecom watchdog ANCOM in the capital Bucharest.

New HBO TV series in Romania

HBO Europe is expected to produce drama series "Umbre" ("Small Time Gangster") in Romania. Adapted from an Australian format, the project will start production in early June. The series will air on Romanian TV in early 2015. The series include eight episodes of 45 minutes each. "Umbre" is the third original series produced entirely in Romania by HBO Europe, RADOR News Agency reported.

Alexandru Danga

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