Arhivă lunară | februarie, 2010
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Există oare un etalon al frumuseţii în întreaga lume? Nu, şi de aceea sunt atât de criticate schimbările radicale la care recurg unele vedete internaţionale. Feţe perfect întinse, ochi alungiţi şi buze de peşte (consecinţe ale lifting-urilor excesive) sunt preferate de ambele părţi ale Atlanticului şi nu rareori pot fi văzute staruri precum Meg Ryan, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Flota Rusiei nu va pleca niciodată din Crimeea dacă nu se retrage în 2017
25 februarie 2010
Ucraina ar trebui să găsească în cele din urmă surse de finanţare a propriilor forţe navale şi să nu accepte în nici un caz prelungirea staţionării Flotei Rusiei din Marea Neagră la Sevastopol (Crimeea) după expirarea contractului în 2017, apreciază într-un comentariu publicat în ediţia de miercuri (24 februarie 2010) cotidianul ucrainean Den. ‘Slabe din [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Deţinuţii belgieni din Olanda, pe picior de revoltă
25 februarie 2010
Deţinuţii belgieni aduşi la penitenciarul olandez din Tilburg (localitate din provincia Noord-Brabant, sudul ţării) ameninţă acum cu revolte, greve ale foamei, evadări şi chiar cu luarea ca ostatici a unor paznici olandezi, în caz că nu se va pune capăt regimului dur de detenţie la care sunt supuşi şi de care sunt profund nemulţumiţi, scrie [...]
Continuă să citeşti...US Secret Service praises excellent cooperation and partnership with SPP
25 februarie 2010
The United States Secret Service (USSS) praises the excellent cooperation with the Romanian Protection and Guard Service (SPP), following a visit the USSS agents paid to their Romanian counterparts in February. USSS is impressed by the professionalism of SPP and grateful for the unprecedented assistance they have provided. This year they anticipate a visit by [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PSD leader regrets Diaconescu’s decision to leave this party
25 februarie 2010
President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, in opposition) Victor Ponta voiced regret on Wednesday over the decision taken by Cristian Diaconescu to leave the party, adding that he hopes it is a reversible one. “Cristian Diaconescu is a valuable man for the party”, said Ponta, underlining that he wishes to find out the “real [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Social Democrat Senator Cristian Diaconescu joins independents’ group in Parliament
25 februarie 2010
Coordinator of the Independent Parliamentarians Group Gabriel Oprea told on Wednesday that Social Democrat (PSD) Senator Cristian Diaconescu has joined the Independents’ Group starting on Wednesday. Honorary president of the opposition Social Democrats Ion Iliescu told on Wednesday that Diaconescu’s move to quit the PSD was regrettable. ‘I am surprised by this reaction of Mr. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Number of finally sentenced persons rises significantly
25 februarie 2010
There has been a significant rise in 2009 in the number of people finally sentenced for high- and medium-level corruption cases, the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) last year activity report says. Thus, there were 131 people finally sentenced in 2009 as against 97 people in the previous year. ‘During 2009, the positive route in professionally [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian-Bulgarian Joint plan for accession to Schengen Space
25 februarie 2010
Head of Schengen Department, State secretary with the Ministry of Administration and Interior Marian Tutilescu had on Tuesday, in Ruse, Bulgaria, a working meeting with Pavlin Dimitrov, Bulgarian Deputy Minister for Home Affairs. On this occasion, the two officials also discussed a Joint action plan for the partnership and implementation of joint actions in view [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MP Emil Boc praises Environment Minister Borbely Laszlo
25 februarie 2010
On his visit to Budapest, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Emil Boc was praising Romania’s Environment Minister Borbely Laszlo (belonging to the ethnic Hungarians living in Romania), saying he is very efficient. ‘He is a very efficient minister,’ PM Boc said about Laszlo Borbely, during his meeting with Hungary’s main opposition leader Viktor Orban. Economy Minister [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Interior ministry, Association for Democracy conduct project on National Integrity Centre
25 februarie 2010
The Ministry of Administration and Interior via the central Unit for the Public Administration Reform is conducting a project on the Development and Strengthening of the National Centre for Integrity over two years in partnership with the Association for the Democracy Implementation, association executive director Alexandru Cumpanasu told a news conference on Wednesday. The project [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Vladescu: Pension system must be reformed this very moment
25 februarie 2010
The pension system must be reformed as it could not bear a six percent deficit of the GDP in 2025, Minister of Public Finance Sebastian Vladescu told a news conference on Wednesday. “In 2009 1.7 billion euros will be transferred from the state budget to the pension budget and if the pension system is not [...]
Continuă să citeşti...OSCE – from last isle of dialogue between East and West to an indestructible structure
25 februarie 2010
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) served in its history as the last isle of dialogue between East and West and succeeded to avoid a war, anD now it demonstrates it has turned into an indestructible structure, which cannot be replaced, stated on Wednesday head of the Institute of International Relations and Economic [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State disburses 800M lei VAT, in Jan
25 februarie 2010
Public Finance Ministry disbursed VAT grossing 800 million lei (about 188 million euros), in Jan 2010, almost twice more than in Jan 2009, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu told a news conference on Wednesday. According to official data, 2,428 VAT arrears totaling 1.58 billion lei, 774 suspended payments worth 744 million lei were registered on Jan [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Health minister targets hospital decentralization by July 1
25 februarie 2010
Health Minister Attila Cseke told a press conference the decentralization through the transfer of the public medical units to the local administration is now one of the solutions aimed at improving the health system and must be analyzed by this summer. He added this objective must be met by July 1, 2010 and even sooner, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State should recover over 2 B euros from public system employees paid by local authorities
25 februarie 2010
The state budget should recover more than two million euros from the employees in the local administration (including teaching staff paid from local budgets), in bonuses paid ‘outside the law’, according to Secretary of State with the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP), Gheorghe Gherghina. He told a press conference on Wednesday that reports of control [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Minister Attila Cseke announces cut in number of hospital manager positions
25 februarie 2010
Health Minister Attila Cseke on Wednesday announced measures meant to cut 28 percent of the hospital manager positions. There is an order that provides the cut by 577 positions (from 2,069 to 1,492), referring especially to the ones that are currently held ad interim. “Law is much too permissive. At the present moment, there are [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Dragobete, Romanian love holiday
25 februarie 2010
In the Romanian tradition, the god of love and well-being was considered to be Dragobete, celebrated on February 24. Also called Spring’s Sign, he is assimilated to the Cupid in the Roman mythology. Folk tales describe him as a merry young man, with a good heart and a native talent for playing the flute. The [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Two PSD MEPs initiate written declaration on Rosia Montana
25 februarie 2010
MEPs of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Daciana Sarbu and Catalin Ivan this week have initiated a written declaration on the threat to destroy the national patrimony by means of the cyanide mining in the area of Rosia Montana (central Romania). The MEPs request the intervention of the European Commission for stopping this kind of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Vladescu: Romania is a country that pays its obligations
25 februarie 2010
Romania is a country that pays all of its obligations, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu on Wednesday said at a press conference. According to him, Romania has no financing or liquidities problems. FinMin’s statements came after certain allegations Romania would be in default. ‘Such allegations saying Romania would be in default represent nothing else but a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania spends double for budget employees’ salaries compared to Germany, says Sebastian Vladescu
25 februarie 2010
Romania ranks seventh according to a European classification of the public sector employees’ efficiency, as Romania spends 31.9 percent on the public sector salaries, twice as much as Germany, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said on Wednesday. “In a chart referring to the public sector employees’ efficiency, the most efficient country is Germany, which spends the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian Gov’t reports deficit for January
25 februarie 2010
The aggregate budget deficit of the Romanian Government started in January, with 0.03 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to preliminary data with the Finance Ministry, state secretary with the Finance Ministry Gheorghe Gherghina reported on Wednesday. In the previous years, the Romanian Government would usually report budget surpluses. The Finance Ministry is [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Labor Minister Seitan: Unemployment rate remained constant in February at 8.1 pct
25 februarie 2010
The unemployment rate reported in January 2010 has remained constant so far, at 8.1 percent, Labor Minister Mihai Seitan told a press conference on Wednesday. ‘There were no rises this month, at least until 20 or 21 February. There has even been registered a slight decrease. But let just say it remained constant,’ Seitan said. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Sebastian Vladescu: Romania has no problems with external payments
25 februarie 2010
Finance Minister Sebastian Vlădescu assured on Wednesday that Romania had no problems regarding external payments. “We are maintaining the macro-economic stability. We have a budget that allows us to operate. Romania has neither a financing problem nor a problem with liquidities. The information circulated about the fact that Romania ceases payments is nonsense,” Vladescu said.
Continuă să citeşti...Carpathian brown bear to play mascot of national rugby team
25 februarie 2010
The mascot of the Romanian National Rugby League will be the Carpathian brown bear, following a competition among fans of the sport, informs the Rugby Federation’s Web page. ‘Next, we will make arrangements to actually have a mascot at the national team’s matches. We also need to find a suitable name and to register it [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian delegation attends informal gathering of EU defence ministers
25 februarie 2010
A delegation of the National Defence Ministry, headed by Secretary of State for Defence and Planning Policy Viorel Oancea, participates in the informal gathering of the defence ministers of the European Union member states, over February 24-25. The topics of the gathering, organized by the European Council’s Spanish presidency, in Palma de Mallorca, will refer [...]
Continuă să citeşti...No new case of infection with A/H1N1 influenza virus recorded in the latest 24 hours, in Romania
25 februarie 2010
Romanian Ministry of Health (MS) on Wednesday announced there was no new case of infection with A/H1N1 influenza virus confirmed in the latest 24 hours in Romania. And there was no death, MS specified. The total number of cases confirmed so far in Romania totals 7,003, including 122 deaths.
Continuă să citeşti...German groups control 60 pct of Romania’s retail trade
25 februarie 2010
The German Lidl & Schwarz group outran the French Carrefour retailer in the ranking of the top biggest retailers on the local market once it took over the Plus discounter network, reads the Ziarul Financiar daily. Following the integration of the 96 acquired stores, Lidl & Schwarz group, which also operates a network of 45 [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Celebration of Romanian ‘romanta’ at Chisinau
25 februarie 2010
Chisinau (the capital city of Republic of Moldova) will be the host over February 25-27 of a contest of creation and interpretation of Romanian ‘romanta’ (Romanian sentimental song), ‘Crizantema de arginť (The Silver Chrysanthemum). The Festival is expected to bring together more than 30 interpreters and composers. According to the Deputy Director of the Department [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Constantin Nita: Law on lobbying to increase transparency of relations between economy and politics
25 februarie 2010
“The main advantage of the existence of a law on lobbying is that it brings more transparency to the decision-making act,” Constantin Nita, deputy and former Minister of SMEs, Trade and Business Environment, told on Wednesday. “The existence of such a law will finally make it possible to delimit the notion of lobbying from the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc: The Nabucco gas pipeline, main priority, yet more initiatives considered
25 februarie 2010
The Nabucco gas pipeline is a main priority to Romania, but the Romanian Government will be interestedly considering any initiative that could enhance the energy security of the country and of the European Union, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Wednesday. ‘As far as Romania is concerned, the Nabucco project is the main priority in [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Democrat Liberal Deputy Sever Voinescu asks for halt to administration politicization
25 februarie 2010
Democrat Liberal Deputy Sever Voinescu admitted on Tuesday that Ordinance 37 on the public administration was a mistake, officially launching a challenge to the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) to put an end to the politicization of this sector. “Let us admit that Ordinance 37, which we co-drafted with the Social Democrat Party, was a mistake [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Social Democrat Cristian Diaconescu files criminal complaint with Prosecutor’s Office
25 februarie 2010
Social Democrat Cristian Diaconescu on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, requesting the prosecutors to find out who had monitored him, for ten days, before the Congress of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Diaconescu filed the complaint after journalist Floriana Jucan told a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Economy Minister Videanu to visit France this March
25 februarie 2010
Romania’s Economy Minister Adriean Videanu is expected to pay a visit to Paris this early March to meet his French counterpart, French ambassador in Bucharest Henri Paul reported on Tuesday. The ambassador announced the visit at a ceremony where chief adviser of the French Embassy in Bucharest Nicole Tailefer and deputy director with the Western [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Conservatives suggest making offices of minister and MP mutually incompatible
25 februarie 2010
The Conservative Party (PC) will be advocating the establishment of a parliamentary board to amend the Constitution and it will come up with suggestions that will allow the Constitution to really contribute to the modernisation of the Romanian state, PC spokesman Bogdan Ciuca told a news conference on Tuesday. Ciuca argued that the Constitution as [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Emil Boc: Energy solidarity is indispensable
25 februarie 2010
The global economic crisis has seriously affected the energy sector, causing cuts in the investments in the field, and in order to ensure their energy security, the states have to act in a convergent manner and benefit from the European Union’s support, PM Emil Boc said during the Visegrad countries’ Summit on Energy Security, in [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Emil Boc: Political step taken at Energy Security Summit has to be followed by concrete actions
25 februarie 2010
Interconnection of the national systems with those of the neighboring states in the field of natural gas and electricity represents an extremely important measure set to contribute to the energy security of the Central and Southeastern European countries, as well as of the European Union in general, underlined Premier Emil Boc in a press statement [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PSD Deputy Chereches joins Independents Group
25 februarie 2010
Social Democrat Deputy of Maramures Catalin Chereches on Wednesday joined the Independent Parliamentarians Group. ‘I joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) seven years ago, together with Gabriel Oprea and Cristian Diaconescu. In my capacity as spokesperson for the Maramures branch I cooperated extremely well with Mr. Diaconescu, who was the Party’s spokesperson. Over the years, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Money that left Romania is coming back – Dijmarescu
25 februarie 2010
The deposits volume in the Romanian banking system has grown lately, with the non-residents’ deposits following the same trend on the background of the favourable difference in interest compared to other states, director of the Guarantee Fund of the Banking System Deposits Eugen Dijmarescu told on Wednesday. ‘The money left Romania some time ago, but [...]
Continuă să citeşti...IMF: Without fiscal policy decisions budget deficit may reach 8.4 pct
25 februarie 2010
Romania’s budget deficit may reach 8.4 percent of the GDP in 2010 in the absence of some new fiscal policy decisions, which would impose an adjustment by 2.5 percentage points of the GDP in order to observe the Stand-By Agreement target, says the Report made by IMF experts and published on the institutions site on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...AZOMURES to invest in environmental protection, in the years ahead
25 februarie 2010
The AZOMURES fertilizer maker in Targu Mures (north west of Bucharest) plans to invest almost 140 million dollars to curb pollution, says a note signed by the chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors Fuat Kalgay, presented during a news conference, on Wednesday. Besides the abovementioned investments in the environmental protection, the Company also has [...]
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