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Romania’s largest gas producer Romgaz Medias asked the country’s energy regulatory authority ANRE to raise gas storage tariffs by around 5% for the 2010-2011 winter, the company’s deputy general manager Lucian Stancu said Monday.

Romania is not a major source of narcotics, but it remains an important transit country for the drugs on the Northern Balkans route, according to a 2009 narcotics report released by the U.S. State Department Tuesday.

Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Monday said Romanians, and people in all former communist countries, are more reluctant to having sensitive data monitored and stored, unlike people in other democratic countries.

The construction of the gas storage facility in Margineni, eastern Romania, in joint venture with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom will confer Romania a total energy independency during the winter period, according to the country’s economy minister Adriean Videanu.

The construction of the gas storage facility in Margineni, eastern Romania, has now more chances to be realized than in the past, as the project is in line with Russia’s strategy of developing such units abroad, Wednesday said analyst Vladimir Socor during the Europe-Russia economic forum.

The Romanian High Council of the Magistrates (CSM) proposes a law amendment that would bring all professional records of judges and prosecutors, which are currently held by other institutions, to the Council.