Capital city:
Geographic
position:
in the south-east of
Climate: temperate-continental,
four seasons
Features: mountains, hills,
plains, and delta
Population: 21,680,976 (March
2003, source: National Statistics Institute)
Ethnic
structure:
Romanians - 89.5%; Hungarians (including Szecklers)-
6.5%; Roma - 2.5%; other ethnic groups -1.5%
Religious
structure:
Eastern Orthodox - 86.7%; Roman-Catholic-4.7%; Protestant - 3.2%;
Greek-Catholic - 0.9%, Evangelical - 0.1%; Unitarian - 0.3%; other religions -
0.4% (preliminary data, March 2003 )
Form of
government:
republic, NATO member, EU integration underway
President of
Legislative power:
The Parliament of Romania, (485 members in the 2000-2004 legislature), and
two houses: the Senate of Romania (140 members) and the Chamber of Deputies
(345 members).
Senate
Chairman:
Nicolae Văcăroiu
Deputy
Chamber Chairman: Bogdan Olteanu
Executive power: The
Government of Romania
Prime
Minister:
Călin Popescu Tăriceanu
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Lazăr Comănescu
Minister of Economy and Finance: Varujan
Vosganian
Minister of Justice: - Cătălin Marian Predoiu
Minister of Interior and Administrative
Reform: Cristian David
Minister of Defence: Teodor
Meleşcanu
Minister of Transport: Ludovic
Orban
Minister of Education, Research and
Youth: Cristian Adomniţei
Minister of Labour, Family and Equality
of Chances: Paul Păcuraru
Minister for Small and Medium-Sized
Companies, Trade, Tourism and Liberal Professions: Ovidiu Silaghi
Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development: Dacian Cioloş
Minister of Public Health: Eugen
Nicolăescu
Minister of of Development, Public Works
and Housing: Laszlo Borbely
Minister of Environment and Sustainable
Development: Attila Korodi
Minister of Culture and Religious
Affairs: Adrian Iorgulescu
Minister of Communications and
Information Technology: Iuliu Winkler
Minister Delegate for the Relation with
the Parliament: Mihai Alexandru Voicu
The major political parties present
in the Parliament:
Ruling coalition: the
National Liberal Party and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania
In
opposition:
The Social Democratic Party, the Greater Romania Party, the Conservative
Party and the Democratic Liberal Party.