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Traian Basescu: I asked EU leaders to consider need for structural funds to be increased for new EU member states
President Traian Basescu said in Brussels on Thursday after the informal meeting of the European Council that he asked that the need for structural funds allotted to the new EU member states to be increased to be taken into consideration. ‘I expressed also my opinion regarding the vision according to which we should not handle [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Gov’t unblocks 500 positions in the healthcare system
24 mai 2012
Nearly 500 vacancies in the healthcare system will be unblocked at the request of the Health Ministry, under a decision of the Government passed on Wednesday. The Health Ministry reports that the ordinance provides for the unblocking of 500 vacant positions at the healthcare units in the ministry’s network and at the units which management [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Basescu: Fiscal consolidation is zero priority
24 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday, before leaving for Brussels where he attends the informal meeting of the European Council, that Romania’s stance will focus on supporting the Fiscal Compact, finding solutions for fiscal consolidation, encouraging economic growth without affecting structural funds, but also on the eurozone work market liberalization. According to Basescu, fiscal consolidation [...]
Continuă să citeşti...One third of Romania’s population sees corruption as country’s major issue
24 mai 2012
One third of Romania’s population (33.4 pct) and roughly an equal percentage (31.7 pct) of the representatives of the local public administration consider that the phenomenon of corruption is Romania’s most serious issue, shows a survey on corruption in the local public administration. The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Administration and the Interior [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM Ponta: Romania’s signal to NATO is that which President Basescu gives, we fulfill our commitments
24 mai 2012
The signal Romania gives to its allies regarding the Romanian troops’ presence in Afghanistan is that which President Traian Basescu gave at the NATO Summit in Chicago, namely that the Romanian military are to leave the operation theater when situation shows that no life has been lost, in vain, said PM Victor Ponta while visiting [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Traian Basescu: Realty restitution, quite a complicated matter but we will find solutions
24 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu claims Romania is “stuck in a deadlock” regarding the restitution of realty, saying that the principle “restitutio in integrum” was also extremely “costly” and “difficult,” but it will not be altered, yet new solutions will be looked for in the cases where the restitution cannot be made in kind. “It [realty restitution] [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Traian Basescu: NATO Summit Declaration covers entirely mandate established by CSAT
23 mai 2012
NATO’s Chicago Summit Declaration entirely covers the mandate established by the Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT) almost one year ago, President Traian Basescu said on Tuesday. ‘From our point of view, the Summit Declaration entirely covers the mandate established by CSAT almost one year ago, a mandate supported by our diplomats, whether we talk [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Chamber of Deputies: Draft law on single majority vote in one round of voting is adopted by plenum
23 mai 2012
The draft law on introducing the single majority vote in one round of voting has finally been adopted by the plenum of the Chamber of Deputies. The draft law of the alliance of the Social Liberal Union proposes the amendment of the election law, namely the parliamentary election should be held in a single majority [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta Cabinet establishes Inter-Ministry Committee to monitor Romania’s obligations under international agreements
23 mai 2012
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday signed the decision on establishing the Inter-Ministry Committee in charge of monitoring Romania’s obligations under the agreements with the international financial bodies, the Government informs in a release. According to the above-quoted source, the Committee is chaired by the Vice Prime Minister, the ministry of public finance. The committee [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu: I can neither confirm, nor deny White House press release on purchase of drones
23 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu said on Monday, in Chicago, that he can neither confirm, nor deny the White House press release on Romania’s participation in the purchase of some drones, along with other 13 states. “We are not to raise taxes for anything. I can neither confirm, nor deny the White House press release”, said Basescu, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania organizes tens of events in “Book World” International Fair in Prague
21 mai 2012
Romania, as guest of honour country in the ‘Book World’ International Fair of the Exhibition Palace of Prague, organized tens of cultural events and exhibited the tomes provided by about 30 publishing houses. The book fair of Prague, which opened on May 17, with a recital performed by Romanian Konick clarinet quartet, gathered participants of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Rail passengers’ number declines every year
21 mai 2012
The rail transport operators, CFR Calatori, included, in 2011 transported only 61 million passengers, a figure strongly declining compared with 2004, when it stood at about 100 million passengers per year. According to the Transports and Infrastructure Ministry’s statistics, in 2011 about 61 million passengers used the railways, both through the national operator and through [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Traian Basescu: To us, the relation with the US represents a major stake
21 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu said that to Romania the relation with the United States of America represented a ‘major stake,’ stating that the Strategic Partnership signed with the US side was not only aimed at security, but also at education, culture or technology. ‘The core of our security is, beyond the Romanian State’s institutions, the Partnership [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ECJ President: Romania is particularly active in respects of preliminary question procedure
18 mai 2012
President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Vassilios Skouris said that Romania is particularly active in what concerns the procedure of preliminary question, enabling the national courts to question the European Court of Justice when in doubt about clarity or the application of a EU ruling. ECJ delegation, headed by the President, Vassilios Skouris, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...8th edition of Museum Night to be held on May 19
18 mai 2012
The 8th edition of the Museum Night event will be held on May 19 at nearly 3,000 European museums, almost 100 of which are in Romania. The National Network of Romania’s Museums (RNMR), the official partner of the event at international level, will coordinate the activities to be conducted by the Romanian museums. RNMR will [...]
Continuă să citeşti...World Press Photo Exhibition, again in Bucharest, after 17 years
18 mai 2012
The World Press Photo Exhibition, which includes the most successful press photographs around the world, will be seen again, after an absence of 17 years, in Bucharest. Its opening is scheduled on Thursday evening, at the new headquarters of the National Library of Romania and of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and will [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Vasilescu: No speculative attack targeted at domestic “leu”
17 mai 2012
The local currency, the leu, is not the target of a speculative attack whatsoever and its quotation is affected only by external factors that include the extreme caution of investors told Adrian Vasilescu, advisor to the governor of National Bank of Romania (BNR). “Foreign investors currently have 8 billion euros in Romanian banks, they keep [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Victor Ponta: All macro-economic data show that the situation is stable and under control
17 mai 2012
All the macro-economic data show that the situation is stable and under control, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said while attending the annual meeting of economic advisers from the external network. “Yesterday we had a briefing from the National Bank Governor and the Public Finance Minister. All the data presented to me and to Romania’s President [...]
Continuă să citeşti...The Economist’s cartoonist Kallaugher exhibits in Bucharest
17 mai 2012
The Economist’s cartoonist Kavin Kallaugher, known by his alias KAL, on Tuesday opened in Bucharest an exhibition of nearly 50 works, at the National Museum of Contemporary Arts inside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. The event was organised by the US Embassy in Bucharest in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Arts. US ambassador [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President of European Court of Justice pays official visit to Romania on May 16-20
17 mai 2012
President of the European Court of Justice Vassilios Skouris will pay an official visit to Romania on May 16-20, on the invitation of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ). According to a release the Constitutional Court sent on Friday, Vassilios Skouris will head the delegation of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Aerospace company Romaero hosts international weapons and military exhibition BSDA 2012
17 mai 2012
This year’s edition of the international Black Sea Defence and Aerospace Exhibition – BSDA 2012 dedicated to aeronautics, defence, national and private security opens its gates on Wednesday on the grounds of aerospace company Romaero Bucharest; the event, running till Friday, is expected to bring together over 180 companies from 20 countries. The National Defence [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Aerospace company Romaero hosts international weapons and military exhibition BSDA 2012
16 mai 2012
This year’s edition of the international Black Sea Defence and Aerospace Exhibition – BSDA 2012 dedicated to aeronautics, defence, national and private security opens its gates on Wednesday on the grounds of aerospace company Romaero Bucharest; the event, running till Friday, is expected to bring together over 180 companies from 20 countries. The National Defence [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Prime Minister Ponta: Romania situation stable
16 mai 2012
The economic situation of Romania is stable and the Government and the National Bank of Romania (BNR) have the required tools to observe the pledged parameters, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said after a meeting with President Traian Basescu and BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu. ‘Today I met the President of Romania Traian Basescu and the BNR [...]
Continuă să citeşti...ForMin Marga stresses Romania’s openness to cooperate with the Netherlands on Schengen subject
16 mai 2012
Foreign Minister Andrei Marga reiterated in discussions with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Bucharest, Johannes Hendrik Mattheus van Bonzel, Romania’s objective to join the Schengen area at the JHA Council in September 2012 and emphasized the openness of Bucharest authorities to cooperate with the Dutch side in this respect. According to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Prime Minister Ponta: I am sure we shall have economic growth and jobs from private sector alone
16 mai 2012
I am sure that we shall have economic growth and jobs from the private sector alone, said Premier Victor Ponta, while attending the launch of the report on the Living Planet – WWF. ‘We must stop as much as possible and have a programme of cutting the number of taxes, I am not referring to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...“Dobrogea. The imprint of time and man between earth and sea,” to open at three museums
16 mai 2012
A temporary exhibition called “Dobrogea. The imprint of time and man between earth and sea,” the outcome of cooperation among various Romanian and French research centres and institutions, will showcase, May 18 – July 15, the rich heritage of the Romanian province of Dobrogea as resulting from scientific cooperation between Romania and France in areas [...]
Continuă să citeşti...INS: Romania slips into technical recession as GDP declines by an estimated 0.1 pct in Q1
16 mai 2012
Romania’s economy contracted 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with Q4, 2011, which means the country has slipped into technical recession because of two consecutive quarters of falling Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to the estimates released on Tuesday by Romania’s National Statistics Institute (INS), Romania’s Q1, 2012 GDP was down 0.1 [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Interior Minister Rus: Romania fulfills all technical criteria to join Schengen
16 mai 2012
Romania has implemented all the projects meant to strengthen security at the external borders and at present, it fulfills all technical criteria to join the Schengen Area, said Minister of Administration and the Interior Ioan Rus at the meeting with the delegation of the Commission for European Affairs of the French Senate, headed by Simon [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Cousin of Great Britain Queen, welcomed on first visit to Romania with traditional “sarmale” and “tuica”
15 mai 2012
Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, the cousin of the Great Britain Queen, together with his son, walked, in a typical English rain, on the muddy village lanes of Sibiel, in “Marginimea Sibiului” (northwest of Bucharest ), where they were received, in front of the church still, with home made plum brandy “tuica”, after which [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Gov’t prepared to address potential leu-euro exchange rate issues
15 mai 2012
The government is prepared to take the necessary measures to address whatever problem of European scale that might occur in relation to the euro exchange rate, Premier Victor Ponta said. The national currency, the leu, fell again to an all time low against the euro, with the National Bank of Romania (BNR) announcing an exchange [...]
Continuă să citeşti...First tick bite victim dies in Sibiu
15 mai 2012
Former ethnic German journalist Rudy Kamla is the first Sibiu local to die from several complications, among which paralysis and blindness, after having been bitten by a tick four years ago, director of the Local Labour Inspector’s Office, Francisk Torok, a friend of the victim. ‘I regret I have to break such news. After having [...]
Continuă să citeşti...STEAG to invest 200 million euros in Monsson Group’s Crucea Nord wind farm project
15 mai 2012
Monsson Group has sold its 108 MW Crucea Nord wind farm project in Constanta County, to Germany’s electricity producer STEAG GmbH. STEAG will invest nearly 200 million euros in the project that will be equipped with 36 3MW Vestas turbines. The electricity generated at the Crucea Nord wind farm will be channeled to a new [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Horia-Roman Patapievici: Romania to be guest of honour of book shows in Paris and Goteborg in 2013
15 mai 2012
President of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Horia-Roman Patapievici said that Romania would be a guest of honour of the book shows in Paris and Goteborg in 2013. ‘In 2013 there are three major events we have been working on for several years. We are guests of honour of the Salon du livre, in Paris, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Victor Ponta: I am sure we can lower tax on low incomes in 2013 to 8-12 percent
14 mai 2012
Premier Victor Ponta said he was sure that his Government would be able to apply a differentiated tax quota, ranging between 8 percent and 12 percent, for people on low incomes, starting in 2013, if the Social Liberal Union won the parliamentary elections. ‘I am sure we can introduce them starting in 2013. I have [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Gymnastics, Euro 2012: Romanian women’s team is European champion
14 mai 2012
The Romanian women’s gymnastics team, made up of Sandra Izbasa, Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache, Diana Bulimar and Raluca Haidu, won the gold medal at the European Championships in Brussels, with an excellent total score (176.288 points), after a competition they dominated from the first to the last apparatus. The team is trained by the best [...]
Continuă să citeşti...EUROPAfest-100% jazz and more brings week of jazz music to Bucharest
12 mai 2012
The Odeon Theatre in Bucharest will host for a week, between May 12 and 18, the EUROPAfest-100% jazz and more, which will organize, as part of the sixth Bucharest International Jazz Competition, excellent concerts given by 25 music groups from the USA, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Colombia, Australia, Italy, Israel, Spain, Ecuador, Switzerland [...]
Continuă să citeşti...King Mihai bestows decorations on politicians, diplomats and literati
12 mai 2012
King Mihai on Friday bestowed decorations on politicians, diplomats and literati at the Elisabeta Palace to mark May 10, the King’s Day. Among the recipients was former leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) MP group in the Chamber of Deputies Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who came to the event accompanied by his nonagenarian mother, and MP [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania to reach 1.4 pc higher GDP in 2012, European Commission says
12 mai 2012
Romania will register a 1.4 percent growth of its gross domestic product this year, compared to the 2.5 percent last year, and the figure will reach 2.9 percent in 2013, reveal the spring economic forecast of the European Commission released to the media in Brussels. The EC survey indicates that the unemployment rate will be [...]
Continuă să citeşti...“Carol Popp de Szathmari – painter and photographer” Exhibition, opened at Cotroceni National Museum
12 mai 2012
The retrospective exhibition titled “Carol Popp de Szathmari – painter and photographer” was opened on May 10, at the Cotroceni National Museum of Bucharest. Inaugurated on the occasion of commemorating 200 years since birth of the first war reporter in the world, the exhibition includes over 400 of his works. “The exhibition displays 400 of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...May 11 – Start of electoral campaign for local elections
12 mai 2012
The campaign for election of mayors, presidents of county councils, local and county councils is kicking off on Friday and is going to end on June 9, at 7:00 hrs, local time. During this period, the candidates enrolled into the electoral race for a seat in the local administration will try to convince voters to [...]
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