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Mugur Isarescu and Victor Ponta – in the lead of Romanians top confidence rankings
Mugur Isarescu and Victor Ponta are personalities the Romanians trust the most, also being considered as the most adequate for the office of president of Romania, reveals a survey conducted by INSCOP Research in the period April 20 to 28. According to the survey remitted on Monday, in the confidence rankings Mugur Isarescu was leading [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanian – Choreographer of the Year, in Turkey
20 mai 2013
Hugo Wolff the founder and the choreographer of Microbis Dance Company of the Culture House of the Students, in Sibiu (central Romania) was designated the Choreographer of the Year, in Turkey, for Hamlet performance. In an atmosphere specific to the annual grand prix giving, Hugo Wolff from Sibiu was named the choreographer of the year, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Dacian Ciolos: For what we want to build in future we can learn from tradition
20 mai 2013
The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos, said in the conference ”Transhumance 2013”, organized in Sighisoara (center), that more than in any other area, at European level, in agriculture one can learn from tradition for what it is wished to be constructed in the future. The Commissioner appreciated the joint Romanian-Polish project “Transhumance 2013”, aimed [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Aurescu: We dismiss idea we do not need missile shield; I can agree it has symbolical value too
20 mai 2013
Romanian State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu dismissed remarks made by U.S. strategist George Friedman that Romania does not need the missile shield and he stressed that Romania, in its capacity of a NATO member, is forced by the collective security clause of the Washington Treaty’s Article no. 5 to defend any other attacked [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Prime Minister Victor Ponta to present mandate for participation in European Council
20 mai 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta will present, on Monday, the mandate entrusted by President Traian Basescu under which he is going to participate in the European Council of May 22. “The discussions at the European Council on Wednesday (May 22 – editor’s note) will be focused on the energy policy of the European Union and fiscal [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa is welcomed by Romanian academics
20 mai 2013
Renowned Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Literature prize winner in 2010, was welcomed at the international airport of Cluj-Napoca (central-western Romania) on Sunday by officials of Babes-Bolyai University, with the author to attend the opening night of his 2008 play “The Thousand and One Nights” at the National Theater late in the day. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Four Romanian troops injured in Afghanistan; now out of danger
20 mai 2013
Four troops of the Romanian Yellow Scorpions 2nd Manoeuvre Battalion were injured in Afghanistan after the armoured vehicle carrying them on a mission overturned at around noon (Romanian time) on Sunday, the National Defence Ministry announced in a release. “The four troops were on a patrolling mission on A1 highway, in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, when [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Nabucco Committee gathers in Bucharest on Tuesday
20 mai 2013
Nabucco Committee, a coordinating structure of the states and companies involved in developing the gas pipeline seeking to implement this important regional energy project will meet in the Romanian capital on Tuesday, the Romanian Foreign Ministry announced in a release. Attending the meeting will be senior officials from Romania, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, representatives [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Institute for Tail Risk Events Research set up, Daniel Daianu to head it
20 mai 2013
The Institute for Tail Risk Events Research (ISEE) was launched and the fresh entity will be headed by Daniel Daianu, a Professor at the National School of Administration and Political Science (SNSPA) and first vice-president of the Financial Supervisory Authority. “We are living times when people with a sound understanding of events (if you have [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Aurescu pleads in Strasbourg for maintaining integrity of various CoE monitoring structures
17 mai 2013
Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu, in Strasbourg voiced Romania’s support to the initiative of the Council of Europe Secretary General to increase the efficiency of the monitoring mechanisms of the organisation, the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) informs. Aurescu headed the Romanian delegation to the meeting of the Committee of Ministers (CM) of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania qualifies for the final of Eurovision 2013 contest
17 mai 2013
Cezar, Romania’s representative to Eurovision 2013, qualified for the final of the competition with the song ‘It’s my life,’ after having performed in the evening of Thursday, May 16, in the second semi-final of the music contest, organised at Malmo, in Sweden. Romania was the fourth country announced as finalist, but the order of the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Budget revision – certain, after July 1
17 mai 2013
The Government will certainly make a budget revision after July 1, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said. ‘This is certainly how it is done everywhere. After July 1, there will be a revision – whether it is positive or negative, or where do we take money from and where we allot more, it is to be [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Victor Ponta: I think this is most serious crisis in USL’s existence
17 mai 2013
Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta declared on Thursday that he is very unhappy with the solution given by the Liberal alliance partners in the case of Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu, adding that in his opinion, this the most serious crisis the Social Liberal Union is facing since its coming into being. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Dacia Lodgy – first Dacia model launched in Denmark
17 mai 2013
Dacia Carmaker launched Lodgy model on the Danish market, continuing its expansion policy in Europe, French Renault carmaker the owner of Dacia Company announced. Thus, Denmark becomes then 41st market for Dacia, after the Romania carmaker has entered the UK and the Irish markets, early this year. During a recent advertising campaign, about 4,200 people [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Antonescu: Anyone who violates USL protocol must leave party to which he/she belongs
17 mai 2013
President of the National Liberal Party Crin Antonescu said, on Thursday, that the Liberals repudiate some assessments made by PNL Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu at the address of PSD, showing that those who will violate the USL protocol will have to leave the party they belong to. “Absolutely, we consider that everyone who infringes so [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Dacian Ciolos: Romania can become important player on European cereals market
17 mai 2013
Romania can become an important player on the European cereals market if you know how to use the farm production not only as revenues, but more as volume for consolidating the position in the area, European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos told the National Conference of Farmers. ‘It would be good if you were aware [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu: Presidential commission close to finalizing strategy for long-term development of agriculture
17 mai 2013
President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that the members of the presidential commission on public policies for the development of agriculture in Romania were close to finalizing a strategy in the field. ‘I want to make it clear for you from the very beginning that I have not come to deliver a political speech, I [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Depeche Mode concert, on National Arena of Bucharest, on Wednesday
15 mai 2013
The Brits of Depeche Mode will perform a concert on the National Arena of Bucharest, on Wednesday evening. In the concert of Bucharest, the band fans will be able to listen both to songs from the ‘Delta Machine’ album, which the artists are promoting on their tour, and older songs. Some of these are ‘Welcome [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania’s GDP advances 0.5 pct in Q1, 2013, according to INS first estimates
15 mai 2013
Romania’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.5 percentage points in real terms in Q 1, 2013 from Q 4, 2012, according to the first seasonally adjusted estimates of the National Statistics Institute ()INS) released on Wednesday. Compared with the similar quarter of 2012, the GDP was up 2.1 per cent in unadjusted terms and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Prysmian Group expresses willingness to engage in strategic projects, says PM Ponta
15 mai 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said, on Tuesday, that representatives of the Prysmian Group, a global leader in cables and systems for energy and telecommunications industry, have confirmed willingness to engage in strategic projects, such as the production of power transmission cable between Romania and Turkey. “Not accidentally it is invoked here the need to invest [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Liviu Dragnea: History will not forgive us, if we miss the moment of regionalization
15 mai 2013
Regionalization is a genuine country project, which cannot have any political colour, and Romania’s incumbent ruling coalition cannot afford missing this moment and fail achieving the regionalization because history will never forgive it, Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea said after his meeting with the Committee of the Regions (CoR) President Ramon Luis Valcarcel Siso, in [...]
Continuă să citeşti...EcoMin suggests inclusion of common industrial policy in Community acquis
15 mai 2013
Minister of Economy Varujan Vosganian reiterated during a meeting with his Polish counterpart Janusz Piechocinski and with Czech Republic Minister of Industry and Trade Martin Kuba, Romania’s objective of actively participating and integrating with the Vishegrad Group for supporting, in a consistent vision, the interests of the countries in the region at EU level. The [...]
Continuă să citeşti...State planning to sell minority stakes in 81 companies this year
15 mai 2013
The National State Assets Management Authority (AAAS) plans to put up for sale this year minority stakes in 81 companies and counts on revenues worth RON 240-250 million, given that the first four companies that were successfully sold funneled approximately RON 400,000 to the budget. (1 euro trades for RON 4.33) According to AAAS deputy [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta: It’s unacceptable not to get people their pensions
15 mai 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta called the Romanian Mail workers’ refusal to get the pensions to the people as unacceptable and he stressed that should the Government decide to pay the pensions by card, half the state-owned company’s workers would have to go home – a solution the executive currently rejects. ‘I understand the Romanian Mail [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu says in favour of efficient control of EU money use by European Prosecutor’s Office
15 mai 2013
Romanian President Traian Basescu welcomed the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Director General Giovanni Kessler at the presidential Cotroceni Palace, on which occasion he said he was in favour of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to have the relevant tasks and authority for a unified approach and settlement of the common problems facing the European Union [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ForMin: Romania has hailed recent Belgrade-Pristina agreement
15 mai 2013
Romania has hailed the recent agreement forged between Belgrade and Pristina, Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean stressed at a meeting with visiting Serbian counterpart Ivan Mrkic. ‘One last comment on the recently-closed agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. Minister Mrkic was so kind as to inform me about the details of the negotiating process, the complexity [...]
Continuă să citeşti...INS: Volume of construction work increases as gross series by 28.8 percent in March 2013
13 mai 2013
The volume of construction work increased as a gross series by 28.8 percent in March 2013 from February and as an adjusted series, depending on the number of working days and seasonality, it grew by 2.7 percent, informed the National Institute of Statistics (INS) in a release it senton Monday. The increase was due to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Avangarde survey: Romanians trust firefighters, the military, the clergy
13 mai 2013
Romanians trust firefighters, the military and the clergy the most, followed by the teachers, journalists and the doctors, shows the national barometer of opinion conducted by Avangarde over April 21-28 this year. According to the barometer, 86 percent of the respondents to the survey trusted the firefighters, 80 percent trust the military, 74 percent trust [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ForMin Titus Corlatean on official visit to Sweden
13 mai 2013
Minister of Foreign Affairs Titus Corlatean is paying over May 12 – 13 an official visit to Sweden, where he is to hold talks with his counterpart Carl Bildt, Minister of Defence Karin Enström, and Minister for European Affairs and Democracy Birgitta Ohlsson, informs a Foreign Ministry release. The agenda of the Romanian Foreign Minister’s [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Herculane Spa topping priorities of health tourism development strategy
13 mai 2013
The Herculane spa ranks first in the country’s strategic plan for the development of health tourism, Minister-delegate for SMEs, Business Environment and Tourism Maria Grapini declared recently while on a visit to the resort lying on the Cerna river (south-west of Bucharest). Spa tourism is the major priority in the government’s tourism strategy, followed by [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Antonescu: PNL’s ambitions to give country’s President cut short if it doesn’t stay strong
13 mai 2013
The National Liberal Party (PNL) “won’t be able’ to give Romania a President unless it stays strong, PNL chairman Crin Antonescu declared on Saturday. ”… PNL has lived and grown up in many ways, so it has fulfilled its mission so far,” Antonescu declared in the opening of the National Conference of Liberal Student Clubs [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President singles out Pestera community for its self-financing capability
13 mai 2013
President Traian Basescu said on Saturday that he honored the invitation to participate in the barn festival marking the Day of the Pestera Community because he learned that this is a Dobrogea locality that has got to self-finance. “Why did I want to come here? Because it is in Dobrogea (Basescu’s native region – Ed. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania at Turin International Book Fair
10 mai 2013
Romania is attending the Turin International Book Fair due on May 16-20, and La creativita Dove osano le idee (Creativity. Where Ideas Dare) is the theme of the 26th edition of the event, this year. It is for the fifth time in a row that the Venice-based Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research (IRCCU), [...]
Continuă să citeşti...WB: Romania must maintain a flexible labor market, to shift to high-productivity jobs
10 mai 2013
Romania needs to continue to have flexible labor markets, that will facilitate the transition from jobs with low productivity to some with high productivity and that will lead to increase labor force qualification, said President of the Bank World Jim Yong Kim, at the end of the meeting with Prime Minister Victor Ponta, at the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...CSM issues positive opinion on all candidates to prosecutor’s offices leadership
10 mai 2013
The Prosecutor Department of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) on Thursday issued a positive opinion on all the proposals for the appointment in the leading positions of the Prosecutor’s Office near the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ), the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for Organised Crime and Terrorism Investigation (DIICOT). [...]
Continuă să citeşti...S&P affirms Romania’s rating at BB+/B; outlook stable
10 mai 2013
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services on Thursday reported having affirmed its ‘BB+/B’ long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Romania. The outlook is stable. In a press release issued on Thursday, S&P explains that in their view, Romania’s high, albeit declining, external debt burden and low institutional capacity are balanced by [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu: European integration process must continue even if it means an additional transfer of national sovereignty
10 mai 2013
The great challenge of the moment resides in the capacity of politicians to convince citizens of the fact that the European project continues to remain the only one guaranteeing them peace and prosperity, with the process of integration into the European Union (EU) needing to continue, even if it means an additional transfer of national [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Fenechiu: We will study closer investors to get through pre-qualification stage in the case of CFR Marfa
10 mai 2013
We will study more closer the activity of companies that will get through the pre-qualification stage of the CFR Marfa (Freight) privatisation process, Minister of Transport, Relu Fenechiu, said after the opening of envelopes containing the tendering documents for the pre-qualification of potential investors. Asked whether he had any information with respect to the American [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Defence Minister: Romanian Army honors its heroes
10 mai 2013
Romania’s Army honors its heroes, Minister of National Defence Mircea Dusa declared on Thursday at the military ceremony organised at the WW II Heroes Monument in Bucharest to mark the triple anniversary of the country’s National Independence Day, Europe Day and of the Allied Victory in WWII. Minister Dusa reminded on this occasion the case [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romanians believe in EU and Schengen accession
10 mai 2013
Romanians are optimistic about the future of the European Union as well as about their country’s Schengen Area entry bid, reveals a poll conducted by IRES pollsters. ’Six years since Romania’s official entry to the European Union, the Romanians remain optimistic about the future of the European Union and they think the country is ready [...]
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