Arhivă lunară | mai, 2010
Security and energy, main topics approached by Secretary of State Doru Costea at EU¬ASEAN meeting in Madrid
Secretary of State for Global Affairs Doru Costea, who led the Romanian delegation to the 18th EU – ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) ministerial meeting on Wednesday held in Madrid, approached such topics as the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and energy safety, highlighted the contribution of Romania to the international efforts of strengthening [...]
Continuă să citeşti...BNR’s Cinteza: Solvency of Romania’s banking system, within normal limits
29 mai 2010
The solvency rate of the Romanian banking system was 14.73 percent in March 2010, slightly up from 14.03 percent at the end of 2009, Director of the Supervisory Department of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Nicolae Cinteza told a seminar on Thursday in Bucharest on financial intermediation. ‘The solvency rate of the banking system [...]
Continuă să citeşti...New Hidroenergetica company might issue bonds worth some millions euros in spring 2011
29 mai 2010
The new Hidroenergetica energy corporation might issue bonds worth some millions of euros in the spring of 2011, Hidreoelectrica Director General Mihai David told an energy conference on Thursday in Bucharest. David, who will take over the management of Hidroenergetica, said that there is a strategy for these bonds that will be unveiled soon and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, the third-largest of its kind worldwide
29 mai 2010
The third-largest theatre festival worldwide – the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu (FITS) – has come to its 17th editions, taking place over May 28 – June 6, to bring participants from 70 countries, to stage 350 events, in 66 locations. „We had no more than 8 plays performed at our first edition and participants [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania needs state refinery company in gas sector
29 mai 2010
Romania needs a state refinery company in the gas sector, state secretary in the Economy Ministry Tudor Serban on Thursday told a seminar organised in Bucharest. ‘We must try and make our gas system a flexible one, as it is rather rigid at present, and also a second gas inlet at Vienna. The system must [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Emil Boc: Solution proposed by IMF for Romania to increase taxes would have compromised hope of economic revival
29 mai 2010
The solution proposed my the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Romania to increase taxes during the economic crisis would have compromised the little hope of revival in the business environment, Premier Emil Boc said in the opening of the National Forum of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises taking place in Bucharest, also underlying that the IMF [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MFP: Expenses for goods and services in state budget drop by 3.5 percent
29 mai 2010
The expenses for goods and services, in the state budget, from which ministries and the other public institutions in the central administration are financed and where the Government was able to take direct measures, dropped by 3.5 percent in the first four months of 2010 as against the similar time span of 2009, informs the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania reiterates support for Macedonia’s European, Euro-Atlantic integration
29 mai 2010
Romania reiterated its support for the European and Euro¬Atlantic integration of the Republic of Macedonia on the occasion of a visit to Skopje by a delegation of the Senate’s Commission on foreign policy headed by Commission chairman Titus Corlatean. In the first part of the visit taking place over May 24-27, the Romanian delegation spoke [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Premier Emil Boc reiterates Romania’s support to protection activities carried out by UNHCR
29 mai 2010
Prime Minister Emil Boc on Friday, at the Victoria Palace, met UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, an occasion on which he reiterated Romania’s support to the protection activities carried out by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and to maintaining the projects assumed previously. According to a release, the main subject of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Only 3 pct of Romanians believe Govt measures able to pull country out of crisis
29 mai 2010
Less than 3 percent (2.89 percent) of Romanians believe that the austerity measures proposed by the Government will be able to pull Romania out of the crisis in 2011, reveals an online opinion poll, conducted by MyJob.ro staff recruiting site. As well, a percentage of 2.48 percent of respondents believe that these measures will bring [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State secretary Tutilescu, UNHCR Commissioner Guterres discuss refugee issues
29 mai 2010
State secretary with the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI) Marian Tutilescu on Friday welcomed visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres for a working meeting as part of Guterres’ visit to Romania. MAI reports in a press release that the two officials discussed aspects of Romania’s asylum policy, which meets the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Antonio Guterres appreciates Romanian Government’s efforts for refugee protection
29 mai 2010
On Friday, during a meeting with the students of the Law School, Bucharest University, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres appreciated the efforts made by the Romanian Government for protecting foreigners, as well as the positive attitude of the Romanian people to them. He spoke to the participants in the meeting about the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Regional Development Ministry to launch new call for Black Sea cross-border cooperation projects
29 mai 2010
Romania’s Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT) will launch this September a second call for Black Sea cross-border cooperation projects for a European co-financing of 90 percent of the projects worth, MDRT adviser Ana Gheorghe told a conference on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on Friday. The 2007-2013 Black Sea Basin Joint Operational Programme [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania attends meeting of OBSEC Ministerial Council
29 mai 2010
Romania’s delegation headed by Secretary of State for European Affairs Bogdan Mazuru on Friday, in Sofia, attended the 22nd meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (OBSEC). According to a release the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ministerial gathering was preceded by [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Tudor Serban: Mining is Romanian tradition and should not be given up
29 mai 2010
Mining in Romania represents a traditional occupation and must not be given up, even if it is being carried out under difficult conditions at present and the sector’s modernisation process is not too great, state secretary in the Economy Ministry Tudor Serban on Thursday told a seminar organised in Bucharest. ‘If we wish to preserve [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Tarom flights will follow usual schedule on May 31 and June 1
29 mai 2010
Flights of the national airline company Tarom will follow their normal schedule on May 3031 and June 1, 2010, informs a release of the company. Initially, the affiliated trade unions had announced the possibility of joining the all-out strike of employees in the public sector. Nevertheless, the leader of the Tarom trade union, Dan Axinte, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ForMin Teodor Baconschi invites delegation of Argentinean businessmen to Romania
29 mai 2010
The favourable legal framework to businessmen, the flat tax, as well as the skilled labour, create the potential for successful investments in Romania, Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Baconschi on Wednesday told his Argentinean counterpart, Jorge Taiana. The chief of Romanian diplomacy has also proposed a delegation of Argentinean businessmen to come to visit Romania, as [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Magistrates assure society they will stay a pillar of stability in times of crisis
29 mai 2010
Managers of Romania’s judiciary institutions on Friday assured that the judiciary will stay a pillar of stability and neutrality in these times of crisis. ‘Yet, representatives of the judiciary are voicing worries about the promotion of certain normative acts justified by the ongoing financial and economic crisis without prior consideration of the Supreme Council of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Constanta port halves tariffs on cruise ships
29 mai 2010
The Romanian port authorities are considering halving the taxes charged the cruise ships that will visit the Black Sea Port of Constanta (southeastern Romania) this year, as they expect luxury tourism to grow by 10-15 percent, Financiarul daily reports. According to managing director of Constanta Sea Ports Administration, Ioan Balan as many as 60 cruise [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania might reach current EU level in research funding in ten years
29 mai 2010
The current European average in terms of research funding is 2 percent of the GDP, a level that might be achieved in Romania in ten years, according to data presented on Friday at the roundtable on „National Targets under the Europe 2020 Strategy: Investment Objectives in Research and Innovation. „The target of 3 percent of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Udrea: It will either be historic governance or it will end ugly
29 mai 2010
Minister of Regional Development and Tourism Elena Udrea said late on Wednesday that if the current Government manages to impose the measures meant to take the country out of the recession it will be an ‘ historic governance’ for Romania, otherwise the Government will end pretty ugly. ‘Unfortunately – or maybe luckily – we rule, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Four in five Romanians have recently heard of the European Parliament
29 mai 2010
Four in five Romanians, more precisely 79 percent, have recently read in the press, seen on the Internet or heard on the radio or television something about the European Parliament, according to the latest Eurobarometer conducted by the European Parliament in the citizen’s view on the European Parliament released on Friday. The poll, conducted January [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PNL MPs calls, through simple motion, FinMin to come up with rectified budget
29 mai 2010
National Liberal Party (PNL) deputies asked, in a simple motion tabled on Wednesday, May 26, with the Chamber of Deputies, the Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu to come up with a rectified budget project, when Government assumes responsibility on the austerity measures. According to the motion, the rectified budget project must reflect in a transparent manner [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Turkey aims at 20 billion dollars’ worth trade with Romania, on medium term
29 mai 2010
Trade exchanges between Romania and Turkey will amount to 20 billion dollars, on a medium term, after it totalled 7.5 billion dollars in 2008, Turkey’s Justice Minister and joint chairman of the Joint Economic Commission Sadullah Ergin said on Friday. „Trade exchanges amounted to 7.5 billion dollars in 2008, but they dropped to 4.5 billion [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Tasad natural reservation enters tourist circuit
29 mai 2010
A Dacian fortress, fossil dwarf whales and dolphins, archaeological relics all around you, caves with bats reserves, the first silver jewellery workshop discovered in Romania are among the tourist attractions recommended by the tourist management plan of the Tasad Natural Reservation in Bihor County (western Romania). The official opening of the reservation’s visiting centre represent [...]
Continuă să citeşti...U.S. Ambassador: Romanian troops are fighting side by side with U.S. troops for the same values and ideals
29 mai 2010
Romanian and US troops are fighting side by side for the same values and ideals, U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein said on Friday, on the occasion of the ceremony of remembrance of U.S. soldiers who served their country in the World War II, fighting on the Romanian territory. It’s a big consolation for us, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Letter of intent to IMF: Added measures to cut number of public sector employees
29 mai 2010
Romania’s Government is to take in the upcoming months added measures to cut the number of public sector employees, and in case the announced measures prove to be insufficient for attaining the target deficit this year a tax hike is expected, depending on the needs, says the letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ForMin Baconschi is conferred CARI distinguished guest and correspondent member distinctions
29 mai 2010
Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Baconschi was conferred on Thursday by the President of the Argentinean Council on Foreign Relations (CARI) Adalberto Rodriguez Giavarini – Argentina’s former Foreign Affairs Minister – the distinguished guest and correspondent member distinction. The Romanian chief diplomat attended on Thursday, during a visit to Argentina, the conference of the Argentinean Council [...]
Continuă să citeşti...UDMR accepts austerity measures, says wants reform moves to be made
29 mai 2010
Vice Prime Minister Marko Bela, who leads the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR, a junior ruling coalition partner) said after a meting of the ruling coalition of which the Democratic Liberals (PDL) are the senior partners that the UDMR accepts the austerity measures for which the Executive will call a vote of confidence, but [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Teodor Baconschi, present in Alliance of Civilizations Forum, in Rio de Janeiro
29 mai 2010
Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi is to participate in the Third Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, in the period May 28 through 30, focused on the national actions in the inter-cultural field and promotion of diversity and tolerance between ethnic communities and between religions. According [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Labour Minister Seitan: 1.082 million retirees to receive 350 lei minimum pension
29 mai 2010
Over 400,000 retirees will have a guaranteed minimum pension of 350 lei (around 83 euros), after the enforcement of the 15-percent slash in the current pension, so that the number of people with pensions of only 350 lei will reach 1.082 million citizens, according to the Labour Minister Mihai Seitan. ‘Before, there were 680,000 retirees [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Public transport workers join public employees’ strike
29 mai 2010
The public transport workers, both the subway and the surface, will join the strike of the administration and education trade unions on Tuesday, June 1, said Ion Radoi, leader of the Federation of Trade Unions of Transport and Public Services ATU Romania and also the leader of USL Metrou, on Friday told a press conference. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Workgroup to examine economic measures, set up by ruling coalition
29 mai 2010
Leader of national minorities, other than UDMR, in Romania’s Parliament Varujan Pambuccian stated on Wednesday, May 26, that at the level of the ruling coalition a workgroup was set up in charge with the austerity measures announced by the Government, as well as with the economic solutions coming from any other source. „We decided today [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc: Out of total 47 social benefits, 35 remain unchanged
29 mai 2010
Prime Minister Emil Boc said that under the measures provided in the letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund, adopted by the Government on Wednesday, out of a total of 47 social benefits, 35 will not be changed. ‘Out of a total number of 47 social benefits, 35 remain unchanged. However, by the Social [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Letter of intent to IMF: Number of public sector employees limited to 1,290,000 in 2011
29 mai 2010
The wage fund in 2011 will be limited to 39 billion lei (some 9.2 billion euros) and the number of public sector employees to 1,290,000 at the beginning of 2011, says the letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved by the Executive on Wednesday. „The elaboration of the Fiscal Strategy (SF) on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Govt to reactivate privatization programme
29 mai 2010
The Government is to aggressively reactivate its privatization programme, especially in fields as industry, energy, transport, tourism and agriculture, says the letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), adopted by the Government on Wednesday. As such, the Government says, the energy company Termoelectrica will be liquidated through the separation of viable assets and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian households pay lowest prices for natural gas, in H2, 2009
29 mai 2010
Romania ranks the first among the EU countries, in terms of the lowest price the household consumers were paying for the natural gas, in the second half of the last year, read data presented by the Eurostat European Statistical Office. The price for the natural gas provided to the household consumers dropped by 16 percent [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Boc says proposed measures will allow finalization of investments
29 mai 2010
Premier Emil Boc stated on Wednesday that the austerity measures proposed by the Government will allow finalization of investments in Romania. „We want these measures to have a limited character and provide the needed oxygen to economy, in order to secure the economic growth. (…) These measures, we propose to the Parliament, will allow us [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Wage cuts to hit saving, economic analysts say
29 mai 2010
The planned cuts in wages and pensions will have a powerful negative impact on the private consumption and on the population’s saving, but the analysts insist it is also necessary to axe public sector jobs by merging the taxes and by making the activity more efficient, Ziarul financiar writes on Friday. Volksbank chief economist Melania [...]
Continuă să citeşti...FinMin: Private pension contribution cuts to be set in draft budget revision
29 mai 2010
The contributions to the mandatory private pension funds will be cut, with the measure to be included in the 2010 draft budget revision, Public Finances Minister Sebastian Vladescu announced at the Victoria Palace (the Govt’s offices) on Wednesday. The minister did not clearly say how much such contributions will be cut but he announced that [...]
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