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Romania is the European champion in attracting non-reimbursable funds for energy investments, exceeding 10 billion euros in projects and support schemes approved through the Modernization Fund, according to a post made on Monday by Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja on Facebook.

Romania has become leader in Eastern Europe regarding end-of-life care, although, during Ceausescu communist regime, care for terminally ill was non-existent, according to a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana said the actions initiated by the National Integrity Agency (ANI) against him are aimed at his defamation in the public eye, and they are "an attempt to intervene and influence the results of elections held within the Social Democratic Party."

One Bucharest citizen, wanted for 13 years by Australian authorities under charges of running a network that organized at least 18 transports of cocaine from Latin America to Australia, was arrested by Romanian border police on a street in Bucharest.

The former leader of the September 1991 miner riots in Romania, Miron Cozma, was released from prison, Sunday morning, after some ten years of incarceration.

The special commission within Romanian prison facility Rahova decided to meet Friday to discuss the case of miner riot leader Miron Cozma.