ROMPRES
Encyclopedia
History
The agency was founded with the name AGERPRES, standing for "Romanian Press Agency"After 1989 the agency changed its name to ROMPRES (to underline the close relations of Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
with France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, as an equivalent to Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...
).
In 2008 the agency changed its name back to AGERPRES.
External links
- www.agerpres.ro (official web site) (the old website can still be used)