Romanian President Traian Basescu (right) shakes hands with the President of the Constitutional Court Ioan Vida, during a ceremony to validate him as the newly elected president of the country on December 16 in Bucharest. Basescu has reappointed Emil Boc as prime minister and asked him to form a new government within a week in order to get a crucial aid package from the IMF and the EU.
(AFP/Andrei Pungovschi)