Romania will probably introduce the co-payment system for healthcare services in the first half of 2011, following debates in Parliament, said Romanian Health Minister Cseke Attila on Monday, after talks with Jeffrey Franks, head of the International Monetary Fund mission to Bucharest.

Romanian cinema has started to become well known abroad after numerous movies directed by Romanians and produced locally received awards at international film festivals. Romania-insider.com continues its series presenting must-see Romanian movies released after the fall of communism. This week we are looking at five more recent Romanian movies you should not miss. (watch trailers below)

Thousands of pilgrims from across Romania and abroad have queued to pray at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, at the Venerated Wood of the Holy Cross, brought from Greece and at the Holy Relics of Saint Dimitrie the New, protector of Bucharest. Romanians celebrate Saint Dimitrie on October 27 but the pilgrimage goes on during the entire week.

U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein said that he will give an answer to the question when will the Romanians be able to enter the U.S. without a visa as soon as the Romanian economy improves. He would like to see this wish fulfilled during the two years left of his current tenure as Ambassador, Gitenstein has also said.

The Romanian Government approved a draft act which introduces a highway toll system alongside the existing road toll system, according to Mediafax newswire. The reason behind this decision is that the sums allotted from the state budget and from the country's public roads authority CNADNR are not enough to upkeep highways to be constructed with funds from the European Union.

Romanian gymnast Ana Porgras on Sunday won the gold medal on balance beam at the 2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Championship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Porgras scored a 15,366, the top mark of the day, which brought her gold at the balance beam finals, the first medal of Romania's delegation at the World Championship in Rotterdam.

Nearly 80,000 trade union members are expected on Wednesday October 27 to attend a meeting to be staged in Bucharest City by the five national trade union confederations, according to First Deputy Chairman of the BNS National Trade Union Bloc Ioan Pisc.

Movies in Bucharest cinema opening on October 22 and on screens until October 28; upcoming movies

Two days after the VAT drop for basic products was mistakenly voted in the Romanian Parliament by the ruling party Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), including some of the ministers, the Government has asked the ministers to pay more attention to legislative initiatives. State secretaries will also be required to attend the parliamentary commission meetings where law projects related to their ministry will be debated, according to Mediafax newswire.

Two managers from the private business sector and a city mayor are on the national Liberal Party's list of possible alternative prime ministers, should the no-confidence motion pass the Parliament next week. Stere Farmache, president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE- BVB), Mariana Gheorghe, executive general manager of oil and gas company Petrom (in picture) and Klaus Johannis, the Sibiu mayor are on PNL's list of candidates for the PM seat, according to Romanian media quoting sources within the Liberal Party.

Romania will probably introduce the co-payment system for healthcare services in the first half of 2011, following debates in Parliament, said Romanian Health Minister Cseke Attila on Monday, after talks with Jeffrey Franks, head of the International Monetary Fund mission to Bucharest.

Romanian cinema has started to become well known abroad after numerous movies directed by Romanians and produced locally received awards at international film festivals. Romania-insider.com continues its series presenting must-see Romanian movies released after the fall of communism. This week we are looking at five more recent Romanian movies you should not miss. (watch trailers below)

Thousands of pilgrims from across Romania and abroad have queued to pray at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, at the Venerated Wood of the Holy Cross, brought from Greece and at the Holy Relics of Saint Dimitrie the New, protector of Bucharest. Romanians celebrate Saint Dimitrie on October 27 but the pilgrimage goes on during the entire week.

U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein said that he will give an answer to the question when will the Romanians be able to enter the U.S. without a visa as soon as the Romanian economy improves. He would like to see this wish fulfilled during the two years left of his current tenure as Ambassador, Gitenstein has also said.

The Romanian Government approved a draft act which introduces a highway toll system alongside the existing road toll system, according to Mediafax newswire. The reason behind this decision is that the sums allotted from the state budget and from the country's public roads authority CNADNR are not enough to upkeep highways to be constructed with funds from the European Union.

Romanian gymnast Ana Porgras on Sunday won the gold medal on balance beam at the 2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Championship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Porgras scored a 15,366, the top mark of the day, which brought her gold at the balance beam finals, the first medal of Romania's delegation at the World Championship in Rotterdam.

Nearly 80,000 trade union members are expected on Wednesday October 27 to attend a meeting to be staged in Bucharest City by the five national trade union confederations, according to First Deputy Chairman of the BNS National Trade Union Bloc Ioan Pisc.

Movies in Bucharest cinema opening on October 22 and on screens until October 28; upcoming movies

Two days after the VAT drop for basic products was mistakenly voted in the Romanian Parliament by the ruling party Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), including some of the ministers, the Government has asked the ministers to pay more attention to legislative initiatives. State secretaries will also be required to attend the parliamentary commission meetings where law projects related to their ministry will be debated, according to Mediafax newswire.

Two managers from the private business sector and a city mayor are on the national Liberal Party's list of possible alternative prime ministers, should the no-confidence motion pass the Parliament next week. Stere Farmache, president of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE- BVB), Mariana Gheorghe, executive general manager of oil and gas company Petrom (in picture) and Klaus Johannis, the Sibiu mayor are on PNL's list of candidates for the PM seat, according to Romanian media quoting sources within the Liberal Party.