Arhivă lunară | februarie, 2009
Atentie: Chimerica
Întâmplator sau nu, actualul ministru de externe al Republicii Populare Chineze, Yang Jiechi, si-a facut studiile in Marea Britanie, a lucrat cel putin 10 ani ca diplomat in SUA, dintre care 4 ani a fost ambasadorul Chinei la Washington. În mod sigur nu este o intâmplare ca secretarul de stat al SUA, Hillary Clinton, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...SUA au lansat cursa pentru televizoare “eco”
25 februarie 2009
Pe fondul preocuparilor legate de mediul ambiant, fabricantii de televizoare s-au aruncat intr-o cursa pentru a fabrica aparate eficiente din punct de vedere al consumului de energie, unele companii lansând televizorul „eco”. Vizio Inc, Funai Electric Co. si Sharp Corp., de exemplu, au dezvaluit recent televizoarele care fac economii la energie si care intrec [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Brandul “Jirinovski” s-a imbogatit cu un nou produs
25 februarie 2009
Vladimir Jirinovski – vicepresedintele Dumei de Stat (camera inferioara a parlamentului rus) – care a cerut recent scoaterea tuturor frigiderelor pentru bauturi racoritoare pe care se afla reclame pentru Coca-Cola de pe holurile legislativului rus, a prezentat la târgul de bunuri de consum de la Moscova – „Prodexpo-2000” – coniacul „Jirinovski”, relateaza site-ul formatiunii [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Diaconescu: We will not adopt measures that will obstruct free circulation of persons
24 februarie 2009
Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu told a joint conference on Monday evening with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini that the Romanian authorities will not adopt any measures that would obstruct the free circulation of Romanians in the Schengen area. 'We will not take any measure that will restrict the right to free circulation. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Dacia lauches new 5,900 Logan
24 februarie 2009
Romanian carmaker Dacia, on Monday, February 23, announced the release of a new version of its Logan sedan model, for 5,900 euro, VAT included. The new version is equipped with a a fuel-efficient 1.4- liter gasoline engine, which develops 75 HP and with basic features such as ABS, electronic breaks and driver airbag. The [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MFP sells discount state bonds worth more than 2.35 billion lei
24 februarie 2009
Romanian Ministry of Public Finance (MFP) on Monday, February 23, attracted more than 2.35 billion lei in an issue of discount state bonds, tendered via the Romanian National Bank (BNR), that is by 1.35 billion lei more than expected. The state bonds have a 3-month maturity, with the average level of the yield having [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Henri Coanda airport, among European airports with high-quality services
24 februarie 2009
The international airport Henri Coanda, of Bucharest (AIHCB), ranks better, passengers believe, than many European airports, in point of the quality of services, reads a study of the Airports Council International (ACI), with the participation of 125 airports at global level. The Henri Coanda airport is rated better than airports such as those [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Social policies analysed by Romanian and Serbian officials
24 februarie 2009
Romanian Labor Minister Marian Sarbu on Monday, February 23, met with Serbian deputy PM, Jovan Krkobabic, to discuss issues related social policies and the reforms in the field. Also approached were the measures adopted by the two governments to combat the effects of the economic crisis. "The Romanian-Serbian bilateral ties are based on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Coordination Committee on European Affairs prepares Romania’s stand for European summit due on March 1
24 februarie 2009
Coordination Committee on European Affairs, which met on Monday, February 23, at the headquarters of the Department for European Affairs (DAE), with the meeting having been presided by Minister Vasile Puscas, approached aspects targeting the preparation of Romania's stand to be adopted at the informal European Council, due on March 1. There will [...]
Continuă să citeşti...EBRD might grant Romania’s BCR loan to finance SMEs
24 februarie 2009
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering a loan of 100 million euro to the most important Romanian lender, the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR), to be lent by the BCR to small and medium enterprises in Romania, EBRD announced in a Monday release. The loan might be granted to the BCR [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Small producers will be allowed to sell without needing to label and wrap every product
24 februarie 2009
Small producers will be allowed to sell their products on the agro-food markets without needing to register with the Trade Register or to label and wrap each and every product, the Agrostar Chairman Stefan Nicolae told on Monday, February 23, immediately after the conclusion of the talks at the National Sanitary Veterinary And Food [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Low temperatures and industrial consumption hike gas imports
24 februarie 2009
Romanian companies dealing in the natural gas import will have to import by up to 25 percent of the total volume used in the domestic system until the end of February, from 22 percent early this month. The decision was taken at a meeting, on Monday, February 23, with representatives of the Committee for [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Foreign Ministry: President Basescu postpones visit to Kiev
24 februarie 2009
The visit by Romanian president Traian Basescu to Ukraine, initially scheduled for Feb 25 and 26, has been postponed, with the parties having agreed on the continuation of the preparation of the official visit to Ukraine of the Romanian head of state, said the Romanian Foreign Ministry. On Feb 24, on the basis of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian ForMin Diaconescu: Romania has decision-making clout within NATO
24 februarie 2009
Any inventory on Romania's participations in NATO missions, particularly those in Iraq and Afghanistan should include the seriousness and determination displayed by the Romanian troops in committing themselves to their responsibilities in the operation theatres, and these participations have mattered very much for Romania's present standing within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Romanian [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Most profitable state energy companies
24 februarie 2009
The largest energy companies, Electrica, Transelectrica, Nuclearelectrica, Romgaz, Transgaz, Hidroelectrica and the thermal energy plants, still part of the Romanian state portfolio, enjoyed turnover in 2008 worth over 5.4 billion euro, with growth mostly due to a rise in electricity prices, and gross total profit in excess of 782 million euro, according to centralized [...]
Continuă să citeşti...BOR spends 37M lei in social-charity activity, in 2008
24 februarie 2009
The Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) Patriarchy allocated round 37 million lei to its social-charity activity, in 2008, reads the review presented during a meeting of the BOR National Council, on February 23. The Patriarchy supported over 400,000 floods-hit victims, 136,000 children in the BOR social establishments, most of them are poor families, 31,000 [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Murfatlar invests 2.8 million euros in vineyards
24 februarie 2009
Wine maker Murfatlar Romania (southeastern Romania) is to invest some 2.8 million euros this year to replant 175 hectares of vineyard, representing approximately 60 percent of the entire area held by the company, Ziarul financiar daily reads on Tuesday. Last year, the company invested 1.1 million euros to boost bottling capacity by 100,000 bottles [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Justice Minister Predoiu: Romania is facing a spate of violent crime
24 februarie 2009
Minister of Justice and Citizens' Freedoms Catalin Predoiu told a news conference on Monday that the large number of violent crime of late signals that Romania is facing a phenomenon and a solution out of this situation would be to increase the minimum sentences. 'I believe it is a signal that we are facing [...]
Continuă să citeşti...BVB down on opening on Tuesday
24 februarie 2009
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) was down in the opening of the trading session on Tuesday, with the general index of the market BET-C registering a depreciation by 2.79 percent at the beginning of the session. The BET-FI index of the SIFs saw a drop by 1.95 percent, with the main BET index, reflecting [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian associations abroad need logistical support
24 februarie 2009
Romania has to grant logistical and financial support to the Romanian associations abroad, for easing tensions such as those in the Romanian community in Italy, said, on Tuesday, for Agerpres, deputy-head of the foreign policy committee of the Senate Viorel Badea. The problem is what we are going to do afterwards, to relaunch some [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Absenteeism rate among Romanian employees is lower than European average
24 februarie 2009
The absenteeism rate among the Romanian employees is lower than the European average, namely less of the former were missing from their jobs than the Czechs, the Poles or the Slovenians, last year, reads the Saratoga – Human Capital Benchmarking Survey for 2008 conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Romania Consultancy Company quoted by the Business [...]
Continuă să citeşti...“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” to open B-EST Festival 2009
24 februarie 2009
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' fiction film directed by Woody Allen is to be screened on March 23 at the Cinema Studio hall in Bucharest, in the opening of the 5th edition of the B-EST International Film Festival, continuing the tradition to present in a premiere in Romania films awarded prizes at the most important international [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania’s target should be set at entering the Eurozone
24 februarie 2009
National leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a partner in the ruling coalition, Mircea Geoana said on Tuesday that Romania's target should be set at acceding to the Eurozone. 'This is the only way in which Romania could belong to a massive, solid and solvent bloc that withstands the cycles of the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State aid and de minimis schemes drawn up by Romania after EU accession
24 februarie 2009
As many as 68 state aid and de minimis schemes have been drawn up in Romania since early 2007, with 22 of them having been conceived based on the regulations regarding the state aid exempted from the obligation of being notified to the European Commission, Chairman of the Trade Competition Council (CC) told a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...SME minister: We export or we die
24 februarie 2009
'We export or we die,' this was the message delivered by the Romanian Minister for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Trade and Business Environment Constantin Nita, at an annual conference of the economic operators from the Ministry's foreign network. In the opening of the meeting, the Minister stated Romania needs to promote the 'Made in [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Mircea Geoana: Romania’s economy is uncompetitive
24 februarie 2009
Romania cannot develop endlessly on a speculative bubble and its economy is uncompetitive relying on cheap manpower and big consumption, Senate's Speaker Mircea Geoana said on Tuesday. 'This crisis debunked the myth of Romania's development based on real estate and financial speculations that have been nourishing for four years, the illusion of a healthy [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Industrial order drops to 8.6 pc in Dec 2008
24 februarie 2009
Romania registered a drop of 8.6 percent in its industrial order in December 2008, from the previous month, while the variation in the index at the level of the 27 EU countries stood at 6.4 percent, reads a survey conducted by the Eurostat Statistics Office of the EU Commission made public in Brussels, on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MP Zgonea: The statements of some Italian officials displease me
24 februarie 2009
MP Valeriu Zgonea of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) says in a political declaration released on Tuesday called 'Respect to Romanians' that he is displeased by what he calls 'offensive' statements of some Italian officials targeting the Romanian people, suggesting some measures to protect the Romanian community of Italy. Zgonea says that no people [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Local authorities, ministries and AVAS can give state aid up to 500,000 euros, without EC accord
24 februarie 2009
Local authorities, ministries and the Authority for State Assets Realization (AVAS) can grant state aid up to 500,000 euros within the minimis scheme, the ceiling for these facilities having been increased from 200,000 euros, according to recently adopted rules by the European Commission. "This state aid could go up to 500,000 euros, if [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Italian media: 40 pct of Romanians on international search warrant are in Italy
24 februarie 2009
Part of the Italian newspapers such as La Repubblica, Il Giornale and La Stampa, in the opening of items reporting about Monday night's meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and visiting Romanian counterpart Cristian Diaconescu announce that 40 percent of the Romanians on an international search warrant are in Italy. The figure was [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania, last in EU as regards property rights protection
24 februarie 2009
Romania ranks last among the European Union member states as regards the property rights protection, according to a report called International Property Rights Index 2009, issued by the Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (CADI-Eleutheria). According to the quoted document, property rights protection further remains a challenge for Romania. Despite that the country [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Euro trades at 4.2810 lei on Tuesday
24 februarie 2009
The exchange rate of the national leu (RON) currency resulting from the quotations announced on Tuesday, Feb. 24, by the banks authorized to operate on the currency market is as follows: CURRENCY SYMBOL RON 1 euro EUR 4.2810 1 US dollar USD 2.1646 1 Swiss franc CHF 2.8889 1 pound sterling GBP 4.8521 100 [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Istanbul-based Romanian cultural institute stages translation workshop
24 februarie 2009
The Dimitrie Cantemir Romanian Cultural Institute based in Istanbul together with Literary Agency Kalem stages a workshop of translations from Romanian into Turkish on Feb. 26 and 27, in Istanbul, the Institute said in a release to Agerpres said on Tuesday. The workshop seeks to highlight the presence of Romanian-language translators in the book [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian Red Scorpions arrive in Iraq
24 februarie 2009
Romanian Brig. Gen. Dan Ghica-Radu, who is the commander of the Joint Operational Command and who attended the arrival in Iraq of a training detachment from the Romanian 26th Infantry Battalion dubbed The Red Scorpions, met Col. Philip Battaglia, the commander of the U.S. 4th Cavalry Brigade at Tallil military base at the end [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Mircea Geoana asks for less taxes and duties
24 februarie 2009
Romania's Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana stated on Tuesday that, in case the amount of 900 million euros provided by 2009 budget will not be sufficient to re-capitalize CEC and Eximbank and, implicitly, to guarantee risks with which Romanian exporters are confronted, as well as to restart the lending system in Romania, the state should [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania, Bulgaria to draft agreement on building two Danube River bridges
24 februarie 2009
Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu and Bulgarian counterpart Petar Mutafchiev decided at a meeting in the Romanian Danube River town of Calafat on Tuesday to draft a joint agreement on building another two bridges over the Danube besides the one at Calafat-Vidin. The two bridges will link Bechet, Romania to Oreakhovo, Bulgaria and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Non-governmental credit advances 4.2 pc in January
24 februarie 2009
Non-governmental credit granted by lending institutions advanced in January 2009 by 4.2 percent (2.9 percent in real terms) compared to December 2008, exceeding the level of 206.435 billion lei, according to a release of Romania's National Bank (BNR). Credit in lei (national currency) increased 0.1 percent (minus 1.1 percent in real terms), whereas credit [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanians living in Spain
24 februarie 2009
The Romanian language is the one ensuring the identity of the Romanians in Spain and this is why parents should find it less difficult to speak it at home with their children and prove a little will power in correcting the way they speak it and avoiding mixing it with Spanish, said the participants [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President of Senate to send EP results of Romanian investigation into CIA prisons
24 februarie 2009
President of the Senate Mircea Geoana will send the European Parliament (EP) the conclusions of the Senate commission of inquiry into the alleged existence of CIA prisons in Romania's territory, decided the Standing Bureau of the Senate on Tuesday following a request made by the EP leader Hans-Gert Pottering. "The Standing Bureau of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania to get 11.8 mln euros from European Solidarity Fund
24 februarie 2009
The European Parliament's Commission on Budgets on Tuesday voted for mobilising 11.8 million euros to be extended Romania in financial assistance for the damages inflicted by the floods in last summer, a press release from Romanian MEP Theodor Stolojan said. The Commission heard representatives of the local authorities from the regions hit by the [...]
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