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Arhivă lunară | iunie, 2010

Germany’s Romanian community sends delegation to Bucharest

A delegation of representatives of Germany’s Romanian community will visit Romania over June 24 – 25 at the invitation of Secretary of State for Romanians everywhere, Eugen Toman. According to a release of the Department for Romanians Everywhere, the agenda of the delegation includes visits to the Presidential Administration, the Government, the Chamber of Deputies, [...]

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CCR postpones to Friday debate on austerity measures

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Thursday postponed to Friday morning its debate on the laws comprising austerity measures for which the Government pledged responsibility before Parliament. The laws have been challenged with the court by the Opposition. At the end of a closed-door meeting that lasted almost five hours, the CCR decided to [...]

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Flood advisories issued for ten counties

The Center for Emergencies of the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MMP) on Thursday afternoon issued a Red Code hydrological advisory to the prefecture of the northeastern county of Botosani and an Orange Code advisory to the prefectures of the counties of Botosani, Cluj (center-west), Satu Mare (north-west), Teleorman (south); a Yellow Code advisory [...]

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Germany’s ForMin Westerwelle promises support to Romania’s German community

Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday promised support to the German community of Romania, on a visit to Sibiu, where he met representatives of the Democratic Forum of Romania’s Germans. Westerwelle met Sibiu Mayor Klaus Iohannis. The official retinue was guided on a tour of the old center of the city, then it met [...]

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PSD’s Ponta: There is no need to raise rates and taxes

Chief of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta told a news conference on Friday in Cluj-Napoca that there is no need to raise rates and taxes to offset the rejection of a 15-percent cut in public pensions; reducing the public bodies’ spending on goods and services would suffice. ‘I want to say right [...]

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UGIR-1903: Tentative tax hikes will worsen economic situation

A tentative raise in taxes in the current context could only worsen Romania’s already complicated economic situation, president of the UGIR-1903 General Union of Romanian Industrialists Caesar Coraci declared on Friday on the public radio station. In his opinion, a postponement by several weeks of the enforcement of the austerity measures following the Constitutional Court [...]

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PSD’s Ponta: We are urging President Basescu to dismiss the Boc Government and seek a solution with all parties

Chief of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta on Friday urged President Traian Basescu to dismiss the Boc Government and seek solutions with all the political parties to get the country out of the crisis. ‘A Government that no longer has Parliament’s support – and the motion of censure proved that the Boc [...]

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GEA’s Voinea: Devaluing the RON and boosting inflation is the only solution now

The only realistic solution for Romania’s current economic state is devaluing the national currency, the leu (RON), and boosting inflation, Executive Director of the Group for Applied Economics (GEA) Liviu Voinea told on Friday. ‘The only realistic solution would be to devalue the leu and increase inflation; an exchange rate of RON 4.28 to the [...]

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Analyst Ilie Serbanescu: Romania can declare insolvency

A tax rise will not have immediate effects on the budget and will not solve the issue of pensions and wages, but instead Romania could declare itself insolvent, for the foreign governments to pay its debt, analyst Ilie Serbanescu on Friday told. „If we rise taxes, the effects will be visible only in a few [...]

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Cristian Parvan: Exports have recovered because of the policies of multinationals, not because of the IMF

Romania may lose credibility more than the money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following today’s vote of the Constitutional Court that ruled unconstitutional an austerity law that provided for cuts in public pensions, officials of Romanian exporters say. ‘The money the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was expected to give us is not important per [...]

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PSD leader Ponta: Contemplating fresh no-confidence motion if no response from Gov’t

President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta on Friday told a televised broadcast that he is currently contemplating the filing of a new no-confidence motion after the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) held that certain provisions of the austerity laws are unconstitutional. „I am breaking this news to you that I intend to [...]

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Deputy PM Marko: We have no other important sources than the flat tax and the VAT

Deputy Prime Minister Marko Bela of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR), minor at rule, on Friday stated that the Government has no other important sources of revenues than the flat income tax and the Value-Added Tax (VAT), but a final decision on whether or not to increase either will be made at an [...]

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Mihai Tanasescu: IMF is determined to continue its programme with Romania

The Romanian Government and the international financiers – the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission – are currently conducting a vast process of discussions. Once the process is over, the package suggested to replace the economic effects of the Friday’s ruling on unconstitutionality of certain provisions in the austerity laws of the Romanian [...]

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CCR judge: Pension collecting relies on past contributions, therefore benefit cut is unconstitutional

The reduction of pensions is unconstitutional because it refers to a past activity, given that the current retirees have paid contributions during their time of employment, judge Ion Predescu of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) declared on Friday. At the end of the session during which CCR ruled that the cut of pensions by [...]

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Dacian Ciolos: Rural development groups must become an interface between producers and authorities

EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos hopes the rural development groups will become a real interface between producers and the authorities in Romania as well. ‘I hope we will be wise enough not to allow these groups be taken over from political or administrative point of view, as this would be to [...]

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Romania and further 4 countries to receive advance payments worth 775 mln euros as cohesion funds

Romania and further 4 European Union member states will benefit from advance payments totaling 775 million euros (accounting for 4 percent of the European Social Fund and for 2 percent of the Cohesion Fund) under some new measures aimed at overcoming the cash flow problems. These advance payments are granted to the member states that [...]

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ForMin Baconschi: We are waiting for Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank to enter the Romanian finance market

At a meeting on Friday in Bucharest with Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said Romania is waiting for new German investments, maybe the coming of banks such as Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. ‘Germany is already number one foreign trade partner of Romania, with 17 percent of the 2010 commercial [...]

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ForMin Baconschi: EU regional policy instruments paramount to Romania

Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi believes that the instruments the EU regional policy has to offer are paramount to Romania. Attending on Thursday a seminar on the opportuneness of the country’s administrative-territorial reorganization held at the Senate, the Romanian chief diplomat presented „a European perspective on regional policies.’ In Baconschi’s vision, regional policy is a European [...]

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PM Boc: Following CCR ruling, Gov’t has alternative package of measures ready

The Government has readied an alternative package of measures to cut the deficit, which is being negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission (EC) and the World Bank (WB), after the Constitutional Court of Romania held that some provisions in the austerity package are unconstitutional, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Friday. [...]

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US ambassador Gitenstein sends condolences to families of two Romanian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

US ambassador in Bucharest Mark Gitenstein on Thursday sent condolences on behalf of the government of the US to the families, friends and fellow soldiers of two Romanian soldiers who were killed in the line of duty on June 23 in Afghanistan. In a statement, Gitenstein says he was saddened to hear of the death [...]

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Germany’s ForMin Westerwelle: EU wants to mediate the conflict in Transnistria

Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday said that the European Union wants to mediate the conflict in Moldova’s separatist region of Transnistria. ‘As you know, the so-called talks in a 5+2 format of 2006 were frozen and we want to use the existing opportunity to set the agenda back in motion. We want [...]

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German Foreign Minister preparing Chancellor Merkel’s visit to Bucharest

On the occasion of his official visit to Bucharest this Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Guido Westerwelle will also pave the way for Chancellor Angela Merkeľs upcoming visit to Romania, which could take place this autumn. „I think this is a highly important year because we have German Foreign [...]

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President Basescu, ForMin Westerwelle discuss Moldova

The importance attached by Romania to the European prospects of the Republic of Moldova and to the resolution of the conflict in Transnistria were reaffirmed on Friday by Romania’s President Traian Basescu during a conversation with Germany’s Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. ‘During his conversation, President Basescu reaffirmed the importance Romania has been attaching to [...]

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CCR postpones to Friday debate on austerity measures

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Thursday postponed to Friday morning its debate on the laws comprising austerity measures for which the Government pledged responsibility before Parliament. The laws have been challenged with the court by the Opposition. At the end of a closed-door meeting that lasted almost five hours, the CCR decided to [...]

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Mircea Geoana on CCR ruling: Pensioners’ legal right is inviolable

The decision adopted by the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Friday confirmed the fact the pensioners’ legal right to be rewarded for their lifetime activity is inviolable, Senate’s Chairman Mircea Geoana on Friday told a release. ‘Today, the Constitutional Court confirmed the fact that pensioners are not socially assisted people. They benefit from the [...]

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President Basescu meets representatives of Germany’s Romanian community

President Traian Basescu received on Thursday at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace the representatives of Germany’s Romanian community; Basescu announced that in the coming period he intends to also meet with members of the diaspora in other western countries. „I turned sitting down with representatives of the Romanian minority from each country into a practice. Today [...]

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PM Boc assures Commissioner Piebalgs Romania considers ODA a priority despite crisis

Prime Minister Emil Boc on Friday assured European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs that Romania will continue its official development assistance to other countries, despite the existing economic crisis, the Government’s Press Office reports. Boc on Friday welcomed European Commissioner Piebalgs at the Victoria Palace. ‘Cooperation for development will continue to be front and center [...]

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Ion Stan: Defence Strategy’s scope should be strictly country’s military dimension, PSD wants document sent back

The representatives of the Social Democratic Party (PSD in the opposition) will endorse both in the parliamentary groups and in the Parliament’s Standing Bureaus the return of the National Defence Strategy to the source, for the contents of document to be redesigned so as to deal strictly with the dimension of the country’s military defence, [...]

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Exchange rate hits this year’s high

The euro/leu exchange rate on Friday reached the maximum level reported this year and over the past 7 months, following the decision of the Constitutional Court on the package of austerity measures adopted by the Government. The national leu currency steeply depreciated by 1.17 percent against the euro, while the National Bank of Romania (BNR) [...]

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MEP Nicolai notifies MEPs about threats against freedom of press in Romania

Head of the MEP group of the opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) Norica Nicolai has sounded the alarm over the freedom of expression in Romania following the inclusion of the media among the country’s vulnerabilities in a recent strategy drawn up by Romania’s Supreme Council of National Defence, the PNL group informs in a press [...]

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Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu meets European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs

Public Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu on Friday met the European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs, who is paying an official visit to Romania. According to a MFP release, this meeting was aimed at establishing the topics of interest for Romania and the European Union as regards the development cooperation policy and the EU’s external dimension. [...]

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CCR rules unconstitutional some provisions in austerity laws (official release)

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has established that the provisions regarding a 15-percent cut in existing public pensions, the benefits for guides to infirmity pensioners and those regarding the adjustment to RON 622.9 of the reference pension computation point are unconstitutional, the CCR informed on Friday in a press release. Likewise, the provisions of [...]

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MP Korodi: Euro-regions should consider local language

MP in the Chamber of Deputies Attila Korodi of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR), minor at rule, Attila Korodi on Thursday said that Romania’s development regions should be established by considering the common language used by the locals. Korodi, the chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, attended [...]

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Mercy Hospital President: Romania should increase GDP percentage earmarked for hospitals

Ronald R. Reed, president and CEO of the Mercy Hospital in Iowa says more money has to be assigned to the Romanian hospitals and there should be a financing level, so that they should not depend on the economic fluctuations. ‘I believe, over time, Romania must increase the financing level, the percentage of the GDP [...]

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Any territorial-administrative reorganisation should be though for after 2012, says Minister Udrea

Any territorial-administrative reorganisation of Romania should be thought for after 2012 and only after pertinent studies and analyses have been conducted in relation to what is happening elsewhere in the European Union, Minister for Regional Development and Tourism Elena Udrea told a seminar on Thursday organized by the Senate’s Public Administration Committee. Udrea pointed to [...]

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Wind farms start generating electricity in Dobrogea

Wind turbines Park at Fantanele, Dobrogea (south eastern Romania) developed by the Czech CEZ Company started supplying electricity from renewable sources to Romania’s national electricity grid, this week. The project using renewable energy sources is the first of such size in Romania. ‘The Fantanele wind park located about 50 km far from Constanta (Romanian Black [...]

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ForMin Baconschi: ODA has positive returns for Romania’s own development

Official development assistance (ODA) has positive returns for Romania’s own development and for geopolitical stability in the neighbour regions, Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi told the opening on Thursday of the Romanian Development Camp, hosted by the Central University Library of Bucharest. ‘Romania was for a long time a receiver of such assistance and it [...]

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Traian Basescu: Visit of German Foreign Minister paves way for Angela Merkeľs visit

President Traian Basescu has received on Friday, at Cotroceni Palace, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Guido Westerwelle, the head of state appreciating that the German officiaľs presence in Romania is important, paving the way for the visit Angela Merkel is to pay in October. Guido Westerwelle, at his first [...]

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Diaconescu, Parv hounded mayor Mot

The National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) said on Thursday OTV television boss Dan Diaconescu and his producer Doru Parv ‘systematically hounded’ Zarand mayor Ion Mot to persuade him to give them money. Details of the proofs gathered by the prosecutors are to be found in an explanation of the ruling made by Bucharest District 1 Court [...]

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PNL: Court ruling amounts to Basescu-Boc-Udrea governance declaring bankruptcy

The Constitutional Court ruling on the austerity laws amounts to a declaration of bankruptcy by the Basescu-Boc-Udrea governance, the opposition National Liberal Party’s (PNL) Secretary General Radu Stroe told a news conference on Friday. He was referring President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Emil Boc and Regional Development and Tourism Minister Elena Udrea. According to Stroe, [...]

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