Arhivă lunară | martie, 2010
Three Romanian MEPs file written declaration to eliminate job market restrictions for Romanians
Romanian members of European Parliament Corina Cretu, Daciana Sarbu and Ioan Enciu (the opposition Social Democratic Party PSD) on Friday filed a written declaration with respect to ensuring the free movement of labour in the European Union by eliminating the restrictions set on the employment of the new member states’ citizens, a press release said. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Isarescu: Romania has no crisis exit alternative to agreement with IMF
27 martie 2010
Romania has not another viable anti-crisis programme, nor an alternative to the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with the European Union (EU) stated on Friday in Ramnicu-Valcea (south) Romania’s National Bank (BNR) Governor Mugur Isarescu. „Romania’s international agreements are the sole anchor for exiting the crisis. Maybe those who format opinions take [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Isarescu: Current exchange rate looks as balanced one
27 martie 2010
The current exchange rate lately for leul – the national currency – seems to be the balanced one, stated on Friday in Ramnicu Valcea (south) Romania’s National Bank (BNR) Governor Mugur Isarescu. He said that leu-euro exchange rate should no depreciate too much, nor appreciate too much. BNR official also said that the variations lately [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania attends International Asia Pacific Maritime Fair
27 martie 2010
Romania was attending the 11th edition of the International Asia Pacific Maritime Fair, in Singapore, on March 24-26, 2010, reads Economy, Trade and Business Environment (MECMA) release. Romania is the third big ship builder in Europe and eight ship manufacturers such as DMT Design Galati (south-east), Icepronav Galati, Icepronav Engineering Galati, Libmar Consulting Galati, P.A.Libra [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Vasile Blaga tells his Moldovan counterpart: We do not want to give lessons to anyone, we want to share our experience
27 martie 2010
On Friday, Romanian Minister of Administration and the Interior Vasile Blaga told a ceremony for awarding diplomas to some Moldovan officials having finished a course in police and state border management that he did not want to give lessons to the Republic of Moldova, but to share the experience Romania acquired during the European accession [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Defence Minister Oprea: The acquisition of the US fighters is absolute necessity
27 martie 2010
Defence Minister Gabriel Oprea told on Friday in Timisoara that the acquisition of the US F16 fighter aircraft is an absolute necessity because the Romanian Armed Forces are NATO professionals. ‘Romania’s aircraft fleet of MIGs will be soon exhausted. That is why for an army that wants to be professional having highly performing aircraft is [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Pensioners protest on Friday in front of gov’t headquarters
27 martie 2010
About 300 pensioners have protested on Friday in front of the government headquarters, demanding the pension point to be maintained at 45 percent of the gross average wage per economy. Moreover, pensioners also demand free medical treatment, access to places of treatment and rest, and the maintaining of the current retirement ages. „We urge the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Draft education law violates academic autonomy, university principals claim
27 martie 2010
University officials having attended on Friday a meeting of the National Council of University Principals (CNR) have accused the draft education law put up for public discussion by the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports (MECTS) of violating academic autonomy. ‘We need to develop the personality of each university. Each university is unique and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Basescu and Premier Zapatero agree on concluding Romanian-Spanish strategic partnership
27 martie 2010
Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Friday, in Brussels, met Spanish Head of Government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the two men agreed on concluding a Romanian-Spanish strategic partnership, informed the Presidential Administration. The partnership would have to be signed during the visit to be paid to Bucharest by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero sometime this year. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania to switch to summer time on Saturday night
27 martie 2010
Romania is switching to the official summer time, on March 27-28, when 3:00 am becomes 4:00 am. According to the website of Amiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomic Observatory in Bucharest, the switch to the summer time occurs one week after the start of the astronomic spring, the spring equinox, on March 20. This marked the moment [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Moldovan Interior Minister offers Minister Baconschi piece of barbed wire as „trophy”
27 martie 2010
Moldovan Minister of the Interior Victor Catan on Friday offered Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi a piece of barbed wire that used to mark the border along the Prut between Romania and the Republic of Moldova and voiced wish that states should no longer be separated in such a way. „This is a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...EC evaluates nuclear security and safety at Cernavoda plant
27 martie 2010
A delegation from the Department of Energy and the European Atomic Energy Community with the European Commission has evaluated the technical aspects related to nuclear security and safety at the Cernavoda-based Nuclear Plant (southeastern Romania), over March 22-24, according to a release of the Romanian Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment (MECMA). The representatives [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Titus Corlatean: Romania supports Moldova’s EU membership bid
27 martie 2010
Chairman of the Romanian Senate’s Committee on Foreign Affairs Titus Corlatean of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) has reiterated Romania’s support for Moldova’s European Union membership bid, on the 92nd anniversary of the union between Basarabia and Romania. ‘I am congratulating the Romanians on both banks of the Prut River on the 92nd anniversary [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian painted eggs on display at Santa Maria del Popolo Basilica of Rome
27 martie 2010
An exhibition of Romanian painted eggs and icons called ‘Romanian Easter Customs’ opened on Thursday at the L’Agostiniana exhibition hall of the Santa Maria del Popolo Basilica located in the renown homonymous plaza in the old city of Rome. The exhibition is orgnaised in cooperation with the Accademia di Romania of Rome, the Romanian Villager’s [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Valeriu Turcan and Daniel Funeriu attend party relaunching daily Romania libera
27 martie 2010
Political personalities such as spokesman for the Presidential Administration Valeriu Turcan, Minister of Education Daniel Funeriu, former Minister of Justice Tudor Chiuariu or Cristian Boureanu, a deputy of the Democratic Liberal Party, on Thursday evening attended the party re-launching daily Romania libera, which was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest. Everything was kept going [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Generali stays in the black in 2009
27 martie 2010
Generali, one of the top 10 insurance companies operating in Romania, closed 2009 on a net profit of RON 15.9 million (3.8 million euros), significantly higher than in 2008. The company has thus started a recovery in terms of financial results, after reporting losses in 2004-2006 and modest results in 2007 and 2008, daily Ziarul [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania turns off light for „Earth Hour”
27 martie 2010
The light of the Parliament Palace and of other important buildings in Bucharest and throughout Romania will be turned off for an hour, on Saturday, March 27, in order to mark the „Earth Hour.” In Bucharest, the most important building where light will be turned off between 8:30 and 9:30 pm, local time, is the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Volksbank Romania increases share capital by 200 million euros
27 martie 2010
Volksbank Romania, a local branch of the Volksbank International (VBI) group, has increased its share capital by 200 million eruos, under a decision taken on March 25 by the General Shareholders Meeting of the group. In a press release issued on Friday, Volksbank mentions that over the past five years, both the assets and the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Adrian Vasilescu (BNR): I do not believe the leu will further strengthen
27 martie 2010
The appreciation of the local currency, the leu (RON), against the European signal currency, the euro, is not convenient to the National Bank of Romania (BNR), but the local currency will not strengthen further than the current exchange rate, says Adrian Vasilescu, adviser to BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu. ‘A leu that strengthens too much is [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State secretary Aurescu: Romania is investing much in the world’s stability and security
27 martie 2010
Romania has an unflinching commitment to the United Nations Charter and is investing much in the world’s stability and security, state secretary for strategic affairs of the Romanian Foreign Ministry Bogdan Aurescu told the students who came to Bucharest to attend a conference where a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ministry of Education continues debates on education law on Friday
27 martie 2010
The debates started by the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (MECTS) on the future national education law will continue on Friday with other social partners. According to MECTS, on Friday they will hold the meeting with the representative trade unions in education (the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Education, the Federation of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Rompetrol Rafinare excluded from both BET and BET-XT structures
27 martie 2010
The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Thursday, March 25, decided, on the occasion of the quarterly meeting of the Index Committee, to exclude Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC) from the structure of the BET and of the BET-XT indices, as of April 1, with the BET-FI, BET-NG and BET-C indices to stay unchanged. According to information on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Economy Minister Videanu: Turning the defence industry private, a viable solution
27 martie 2010
Minister of Economy, Commerce and Businesses Milieu Adriean Videanu said on Thursday at Aiud that turning the Romanian defence industry private would be a viable solution, arguing that preserving the Government’s full control over this industry seems absolutely inefficient to him. ‘We are part of a global market. The private sector is much more efficient [...]
Continuă să citeşti...European funds for urban development of Targu Mures
27 martie 2010
The Local Council of Targu Mures (central Romania) in its Thursday’s meeting adopted the integrated plan for the urban development of the city, which costs over 15 million euros, most money coming from non-repayable European funds. This plan includes the construction of the city ring road, between the Tudor Vladimirescu neighbourhood and the hospital area, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Minister of Communications to meet European Commissioner for digital agenda, on Friday
27 martie 2010
The Delegation of the Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Society (MCSI), led by Minister Gabriel Sandu, on Friday will be meeting in Brussels the European Commissioner for digital agenda and the Vice President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes. The agenda of the meeting will include the following topics: development of broadband networks, particularly [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MEP Enciu: EU should come up with integration strategy for Roma
27 martie 2010
Romanian MEP Ioan Enciu of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a member on the LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament has filed a written opinion on the resolution approved by the European Parliament at a plenary session on Thursday concerning the second European Roma summit. Enciu underscores the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...10,000 Romanian clients use AdWords
27 martie 2010
Google has roughly 10,000 clients in Romania, individuals and companies seeking online promotion on this search engine through AdWords, the company’s online advertising service, Ziarul Financiar daily quotes Amelia Cretu, a Google manager, who is in charge of AdWords in Romania, as saying. AdWords is a paid online advertising service that operates by the cost [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Round 1.5 M Romanians celebrate name day on Palm Sunday
27 martie 2010
About 1.5 M Romanians celebrate name day on Palm Sunday, because it is on this Sunday that Romanian Christians who bear flower names feast on their name day. According to the data supplied by Romania’s Ministry of Interior 1,493,074 Romanians celebrate the day, 630,155 of them are women, most of whom (150,180) bear the name [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Debt collection companies return 264 M euros to Romanian economy, in 2009
27 martie 2010
The debt collection companies managed to return no less than 264 million euros to the Romanian economy, in 2009, representatives of the Commercial Debt Management Association (AMCC) announced on Thursday, March 25. In the context of the deepening global economic crisis, the debt collection companies managed to recover as much as 264 million euros for [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase on visit to Chisinau
27 martie 2010
Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase will attend the ceremonies devoted to the 92nd anniversary of the Union of Bassarabia with Romania, due in Moldova’s capital city Chisinau, on Saturday, informs a release. Speaker Anastase and the local officials will participate in the manifestations devoted to the event and will lay flower wreaths at the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc says lay-offs will continue in public sector
27 martie 2010
Prime Minister Emil Boc reaffirmed on Friday that the public sector lay-offs schedule for 2010 will continue to be applied in line with the cost standard principle as no figure was previously established. ‘With respect to the restructuring process or other elements targeting the staff working in the public sector, as I have said before, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Over 17,000 Romanians turned homeowners under First Home program
27 martie 2010
More than 17,000 persons have so far acquired housing under the First Home program, with government guarantees pledged nationwide having reached a total of 736 million euros, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Friday. According to him, the average guarantee used by an individual under this program was 41,600 euros, and two-room apartments represent about [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc: Companies might file just one tax return as from 2011
27 martie 2010
Romanian companies might have to file only one tax return as from 2011, instead of the current 24 forms, that could be submitted on line to the tax offices, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Thursday in Cluj-Napoca. Attending the opening of the latest show room of the RMB Inter-Auto car dealer, Boc said the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...US Ambassador hands bravery awards to Romanian troops tasked with Iraqi missions
27 martie 2010
U.S. Ambassador in Bucharest Mark Gitenstein on Friday handed out medals to 27 Romanian servicemen who distinguished themselves through acts of courage in the accomplishment of missions in the Iraqi theater of operations. According to the Ministry of National Defence, the U.S. Land Forces awarded the Romanian troops with the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Emil Boc against winemakers cartel
27 martie 2010
Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Friday that the Council of Competition should be notified in case there are data about the setting up of a cartel of the winemakers, to impose certain prices for the grapes, on the small wine growers. Likewise, PM Boc announced he is, on next Thursday, to convene the inter-ministerial [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Basescu: I insisted CAP importance be mentioned in European Council conclusions
27 martie 2010
President Traian Basescu insisted during the spring European Council works that the text of the meeting conclusions should mention the importance of the cohesion policy and of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for ensuring competitiveness, the President’s Office said in a release on Friday. ‘President Traian Basescu voiced Romania’s support for the European Commission’s proposal [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Basescu: Romania backs all Europe2020 Strategy goals
27 martie 2010
The spring European Council was a very good one, since the new EU strategy for growth and labour (Europe2020 Strategy) was accepted by the Council, even though a final answer to all the strategy goals is yet to be given, President Traian Basescu told a news conference given at the end of the European Council [...]
Continuă să citeşti...BNR governor: Huge amounts kept in store last year in expectation of RON 5 per euro exchange rate
27 martie 2010
Enormous amounts of money have been kept in store last year in expectation of the moment when the exchange rate would have reached RON 5 per euro, governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Mugur Isarescu said on Friday in the southern city of Ramnicu Valcea. „They spent a whole year waiting for a [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Russian market waits for Romanian companies
27 martie 2010
The Romanian companies are expected on the Russian market which provides business opportunities in various economic sectors, a news release of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR) informs. ‘Come over in Russia and trust me you will be successful’ the economic advisor of the Russian Embassy Igor Sidorov prompted Romanian companies during the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Bankers oppose Personal insolvency law
27 martie 2010
Romanian Banks Association says that currently it is not desirable to introduce a Law on personal insolvency because it is not very well documented and explicit, stated on Friday ARB President Radu Gratian Ghetea. „If we want the economic re-launch, we must not damage the engine, represented by lending. The Romanian banking system per total [...]
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