Arhivă lunară | februarie, 2010
„Ziua Internaţională a Bolilor Rare”, marcată la 28 februarie
Se numesc maladii “rare” deoarece fiecare din ele nu afectează mai mult de cinci persoane din 10.000, dar ele sunt în număr de 6.000 şi afectează 30 de milioane de persoane în Europa şi 2 milioane în Italia. Cu ele sunt nevoite să convieţuiască astăzi mii de familii care adesea se simt abandonate să lupte [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Uzinele ruseşti de armament lucrează la capacitate maximă
26 februarie 2010
Industria rusă de armament, unul din cei mai mari procuratori de devize ai Rusiei, pe lângă sectorul materiilor prime, a ajuns la limita capacităţilor de producţie. Aşa cum a reieşit clar la întâlnirea reprezentanţilor din acest sector cu premierul Vladimir Putin, cererea în creştere din afară şi nevoile forţelor armate interne stau tot mai mult [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Noul câmp de luptă pentru euro: Spania
26 februarie 2010
Grecia a iniţiat criza care a zguduit zona euro. Spania ar putea determina dacă eurozona rezistă sau se prăbuşeşte, notează într-un comentariu cotidianul american Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Cea de-a patra economie a zonei euro, Spania înregistrează o rată a şomanului de 19%, o criză a sectorului imobiliar, datorii mari şi un deficit bugetar în [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Oraşele expuse cutremurelor au în faţă perspectiva unei catastrofe
26 februarie 2010
Istanbulul se numără printre oraşele ameninţate de un seism major din ţări în curs de dezvoltare, în care populaţiile au crescut mult mai rapid decât capacitatea de a le găzdui în siguranţă, având în faţă perspectiva unei catastrofe de o anvergură care, în unele cazuri, va depăşi cutremurul devastator din Haiti, notează ziarul american The [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Calvarul femeilor refugiate din Coreea de Nord
26 februarie 2010
Femeile care fug de regimul de la Phenian trec prin tot felul de încercări dure. Pentru prima dată, o anchetă realizată în rândurile refugiatelor nord-coreene dezvăluie calvarul prin care trec. Raportul, publicat pe 22 februarie de Comisia pentru Drepturilor Omului din Coreea de Sud, dezvăluie suferinţele prin care trec nord-coreenele, mai ales refugiatele, arată Le [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Russian Railways are ambiţia de a lega Europa de Asia în 7 zile
26 februarie 2010
Vladimir Iakunin, preşedintele companiei naţionale ruse Russian Railways, vorbeşte într-un interviu acordat ziarului elveţian Le Temps despre linia de cale ferată transsiberiană şi despre modernizarea reţelei naţionale, a doua din lume. Avântul fără precedent al exporturilor asiatice spre Europa – 160 de milioane de tone în 2012, faţă de 70 de milioane în 2003 – [...]
Continuă să citeşti...În Kazahstan, cursa pentru uraniu se nuclearizează
26 februarie 2010
Dezolanta stepă kazahă adăposteşte una dintre cele mai mari rezerve de uraniu din lume, însă într-un context în care energia nucleară cunoaşte o renaştere, ea a generat o luptă aprigă, notează cotidianul american The Washington Post. Mai multe firme importante din domeniul energiei şi al mineritului din Rusia, China, Japonia, Franţa şi Canada au investit [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Regiunea rusă Ulianovsk, locul natal al lui Lenin, va cheltui milioane pentru reclamă
26 februarie 2010
Regiunea rusă Ulianovsk va aloca 3 milioane de ruble (circa 75.000 de euro) pentru crearea şi exploatarea unui band propriu. În final, urmează ca regiunea să aibă un slogan, un logotip şi specialişti care să promoveze noul brand. În opinia înalţilor funcţionari regionali, acest lucru va permite îmbunătăţirea atitudinii din partea centrului federal şi a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Procesul lui Ehud Olmert, simbol al problemelor de corupţie din Israel
26 februarie 2010
Fostul premier Ehud Olmert riscă o pedeapsă cu închisoarea pentru fraudă, abuz de încredere, fals şi evaziune fiscală, procesul deschizându-se miercuri, 24 februarie. Statul Israel împotriva lui Ehud Olmert. Pentru prima dată, un fost şef de guvern se găseşte pe banca acuzaţilor. Ritmul audierilor la Tribunalul din Ierusalim urmează să crească de la una-două pe [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Un atentat fără responsabili, la Omagh – Ulster
26 februarie 2010
Atentatul de la Omagh a rămas nepedepsit. Responsabilitatea ar trebui atribuită la 3 judecători care l-au absolvit pe Colm Murphy: condamnat în 2002 ca autor material al masacrului şi acum achitat, tribunalul considerând că nu există probe împotriva lui. Bomba de la Omagh – care a explodat în august 1998 – a fost cea mai [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Castro oferă muniţie disidenţei
26 februarie 2010
Moartea unui deţinut aflat în greva foamei a indignat opoziţia cubaneză: Orlando Zapata, în vârstă de 42 de ani şi condamnat la 36 de ani de închisoare, a murit după ce a refuzat să mănânce timp de 85 de zile. Zapata a fost unul din cei 75 de opozanţi arestaţi în primăvara anului 2003 pentru [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Gottwald, Stalin şi Brejnev, încă cetăţeni de onoare în multe oraşe din Cehia
26 februarie 2010
Fostul preşedinte al Cehoslovaciei comuniste, Klement Gottwald (preşedinte între 1948-1953), dictatorul sovietic Iosif Visarionovici Stalin sau preşedintele sovietic Leonid Brejnev, se bucură în continuare în multe oraşe ale Cehiei de titlul de cetăţeni de onoare, în timp ce alte oraşe le-au retras acest titlu, scrie ziarul ceh Denik. La 21 de ani de la căderea [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc at Danube Summit: We must be good at drafting strategies and at practical aspects too
26 februarie 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc told the participants in the Conference on the Danube Strategy here on Thursday that the involved players must be ‘good at strategies’, but also at the practical aspects and he warned that strategy risks staying a mere piece of paper if not completed by projects. In this respect, Boc proposed [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Prime Minister Emil Boc attends on Thursday, in Budapest, the Summit on the Danube
26 februarie 2010
Strategy, an event that occasions a dialogue between the European Commission and representatives of the governments of the countries involved, as well as with relevant factors from the business and academic milieu, and from international organizations. Attending the event are 22 representatives of national governments of the member states of the Danube Cooperation Process, at [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Emil Boc at the Danube Summit: Strategy, practical skills equally needed
26 februarie 2010
Attending on Thursday the Conference on the EU Strategy for the Danube, Prime Minister Emil Boc told the audience that the actors involved need to be “good at strategies,’ but also at practical aspects and that there is the risk that the strategy remains just a concept on paper if it is not complemented with [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Fiat enters “Car scrapping plan” with discounts of up to 5,800 euros
26 februarie 2010
Fiat enters “2010 Car scrapping plan” and offers reductions of up to 5,800 euros, with VAT, in addition to the three bonuses in the value of 2,700 euros, AutoItalia Group, sole importer of the Italian carmaker to Romania, informs in a release. According to the quoted source, Fiat comes on the market with Ecoplus bonus [...]
Continuă să citeşti...The EIB increased its total lending volume in 2009 to EUR 79 billion, a 37 percent rise from EUR 58 billion in 2008
26 februarie 2010
The European Investments Bank proved to be a solid pillar of financial stability in the extremely difficult current economic context of the year 2009. It succeeded attaining and even exceeding its ambitious targets it set for 2009. We showed, we were able to make a considerable contribution to the European economy, EIB president Philippe Maystadt [...]
Continuă să citeşti...EIB invests bln.1.473 euros in Romania, in 2009
26 februarie 2010
About 1.9 percent of the record credit volume worth 79.102 euros that the European Investments Bank (EIB) provided last year, went to Romania which benefited from loans totaling 1.473 billion euros, read the annual figures, the EBI supplied for 2009. The European Investments Bank gave Romania credits worth 4.389 billion euros, over 2005 – 2009, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian students awarded prizes by Italian company Enel
26 februarie 2010
A group of students from the Bucharest-based Dimitrie Bolintineanu High School, that won one of the sections of the international competition PlayEnergy 2009 – Eco-friendly Ideas for Your City staged by Italian company Enel were awarded the prizes in Rome on Thursday. The prizes were handed in by company President Piero Gnudi and delegate manager [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanians’ at-home consumption of beer and coffee increases
26 februarie 2010
One of the economic crisis effects upon the consumer goods of daily use is that the at-home consumption increased, in 2009, for some of the products, such as beer or coffee, which apparently the Romanians preferred to drink at home rather than going out, a GfK Romania release sent on Thursday informs. The 6 percent [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PSD to submit Constitution revision project to Parliament
26 februarie 2010
Social Democrats are submitting on Thursday, in the Parliament, a draft law for the Constitution revision, the main items referring to the continuation of a two chamber legislative, where the Chamber of Deputies has 300-320 deputies and the Senate will be formed of two senators for each county, to be elected by the local and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...National Defence Ministry heavily relying on cooperation with defence attachés accredited to Romania
26 februarie 2010
Minister of National Defence Gabriel Oprea and head of the Romanian Chief of Staff, Admiral Gheorghe Marin, met on Thursday at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) with defence military, air and naval attachés accredited to Romania. Minister Gabriel Oprea rendered a picture of Romania’s defence policy and international cooperation priorities, as [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Minister of Agriculture: A farmer can get 400 euros/hectare in 2010
26 februarie 2010
An farmer breeding animals in Romania can theoretically get, in 2010, the sum of 400 euros/hectare, which is a historic level, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mihail Dumitru told a conference of the Agrostar trade union confederation. He made it clear that a farmer got 81 euros, a single payment per area for every [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Minister Gabriel Oprea participates in Department for Armaments’ 2009 report
26 februarie 2010
Minister of National Defense, Gabriel Oprea, on Thursday participated in the he Department for Armaments’s 2009 report meeting, occasion on which he appreciated the activity and results of the Department staff, the fulfillment of objectives and evaluated indicators, as well as the general activity in 2009, informs a release of the Ministry of National Defense. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Cristian Busoi requests fast granting of financial support to Republic of Moldova
26 februarie 2010
Euro-parliamentarian Cristian Busoi (ALDE/National Liberal Party), in a speech given on Wednesday to the European Parliament plenum, requested granting of financial support to the Republic of Moldova as soon as possible. Busoi, member of the European Parliament delegation for the cooperation between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova, said that Chisinau sent encouraging [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Increasingly more numerous Romanians use phones, even at time of crisis
26 februarie 2010
The Orange Romania company’s number of clients went up 6.2 percent in December 2009 compared to the previous year, the mobile network operator informs in a release sent on Thursday. On December 31, 2009, the Orange Romania company registered as many as 10,995,000 clients, which is 6.2 percent more than in December 2008. The growth [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Code Yellow Danube flood advisory
26 februarie 2010
The Romanian hydrology experts warned of Danube waters rising past alert levels starting Thursday, after the coming into effect of the Code Yellow flood advisory issued for particular river sectors. The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (INGHA) issued a Code Yellow advisory effective as of Thursday, 6:00 a.m. (local time) for Isaccea – [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Corpse of soldier killed in Afghanistan to be repatriated on Thursday
26 februarie 2010
The corpse of Sub-lieutenant (posthumously) Florin Badiceanu, who fell on duty during mission in Afghanistan, will be repatriated on Thursday afternoon, on board of a military aircraft of the Romanian Air Force, to land on the Craiova airport (southern Romania). Romanian Minister of National Defence Gabriel Oprea and Chief of General Staff Admiral Gheorghe Marin [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Nouriel Roubini, special guest of Financial Forum 2010
26 februarie 2010
Famous US economist Nouriel Roubini, also known as Dr. Doom for his accuracy in estimating the magnitude of the ongoing global financial crisis, will be in Romania May 24-26, to attend as special guest the 7th edition of the Central & South-East European Financial Forum, the most prestigious financial convention in Romania, organised by Forum [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Seitan: I do not believe we shall reach that alleged one million unemployed people
26 februarie 2010
The increase in employment will probably occur in Romania at the end of the current year or in early 2011, estimated Minister of Labour Mihai Seitan, who was invited to the conference titled “Labour Force Market in 2010: Challenges and Opportunities.” Seitan said that getting out of the recession did not have immediate effects on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Petrom: Romania’s fuel demand down 6 pct in 2009
26 februarie 2010
Romania’s total demand for fuel fell six percent in 2009 compared with 2008 and the downward trend continued in January 2010 too, Petrom CEO Mariana Gheorghe on Thursday told a press conference. “Romania’s total fuel demand dipped six percent in 2009 compared with 2008, according to Petrom estimations. Retail sales fell three percent in 2009 [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Petrom: Net profit up 34 pct, in 2009
26 februarie 2010
Oil company Petrom’s net profit surged 34 percent last year, up to 1.368 billion lei (some 321 million euros), mainly helped by the highly positive impact of the risk coverage instruments propped against the crude oil price, according to 2009 results of the company. Petrom’s net turnover dipped 23 percent, in 2009 compared to the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Almost 80,000 hectares of woods are deforested following return of property
26 februarie 2010
In the time to come Romania has to afforest about 700,000 hectares of land, which can no longer be used in agriculture, of the more than three million hectares of calamity-stricken land, which accounts for one third of Romania’s arable land, experts say. “Currently we have about three million hectares of calamity-stricken land, one third [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Greece, Romania may help each other weather economic crisis
26 februarie 2010
Greece and Romania can help each other so that by a bilateral trade supported by the business milieus and the governments of the two countries they may weather well the ongoing global economic crisis, Greece’s ambassador in Bucharest Georgios Poukamissas told a specialist forum on Wednesday. ‘Both Romania and Greece should have a pragmatic approach, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Fitch downgrades long-term ratings of Banca Romaneasca and Bancpost S.A.
26 februarie 2010
Global rating agency Fitch said on Wednesday it has downgraded the Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of the Bulgarian and Romanian units of the National Bank of Greece (NBG) and EFG Eurobank Ergasias. The Wednesday’s rating actions follow Fitch’s downgrade on Tuesday of the Long-term and Short-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of Greece’s four-largest commercial [...]
Continuă să citeşti...The u-turn in 2009 opens new avenues for cooperation between Moldova and Romania
26 februarie 2010
An exhibition called ‘The Home Icons. The Collection of Petru and Andrei Costin from Moldova,’ opened on Wednesday at the Dimitrie Gusti Village Museum of Bucharest in the presence of diplomats and officials of the culture ministries of Romania and Moldova. ‘Unfortunately, after 2001, which I believe was a historic accident, relations between Moldova and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian-French partnership in education field continues
26 februarie 2010
Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sport Daniel Petru Funeriu has met on Thursday France’s Ambassador to Bucharest Henry Paul, the two officials underlining the good cooperation between the two countries in the education field and to examine the joint interest projects that got under way, MECTS informs in a release. According to the quoted [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Danube Summit in Budapest adopts final declaration
26 februarie 2010
The states participating in the Danube Summit held in Budapest on Thursday adopted a final declaration by which they pledge to create a safe and prosperous Danube area in accordance with the common principles and values and with the fundamental goals. The participating states seek to play an active role, to take part in drafting [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Four-magnitude tremor on Richter scale in Vrancea region
26 februarie 2010
The National Institute of Research and Development for Earth Physics announced the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) that on Thursday evening, at 17:51, a 4-magnitude earthquake on Richter scale struck the Vrancea region (north-east of Bucharest), at 100 km depth and with a 2-magnitude intensity in the epicentre on the Mercalli scale, a IGSU [...]
Continuă să citeşti...COFAC: Romania supports Republic of Moldova’s European route
26 februarie 2010
Romania supports the European aspirations of the states included in the EU Eastern Partnership, especially regarding the Republic of Moldova’s European route, the Chairman of the Romanian Senate’s Foreign Policy Committee Titus Corlatean told while attending the Conference of Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees in the National Parliaments of the EU states on Thursday (COFAC). [...]
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