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Football: Atletico Madrid wins Europa League final in Bucharest, 3-0, playing Athletic Bilbao
Atletico Madrid won the Europa League final after beating Athletic Bilbao, 3-0 (2-0), on Wednesday night on the National Arena in Bucharest. Colombian Radamel Falcao (7, 34) and Brazilian Diego (85) scored the goals that made Atletico Madrid win the second Europe League trophy in three years. Falcao managed to have the unique performance of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MAE: Germany reiterates support for Romania’s accession to Schengen Area on schedule
10 mai 2012
Romania’s Foreign Minister Andrei Marga on Wednesday welcomed Germany’s ambassador in Bucharest Andreas von Mettenheim, who voiced Germany’s support for Romania’s accession to the border-free Schengen Area according to the schedule agreed upon, the Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) reports. The two officials also discussed issues of bilateral interests and European as well as world affairs. [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Franks: We are encouraged by strong commitment showed by Romania towards IMF Accord
10 mai 2012
The International Monetary Fund’s chief of Romania mission, Jeffrey Franks said Wednesday the IMF is satisfied with the commitment showed by Bucharest towards pursuing with the Accord signed with the international lender. We are encouraged by the strong commitment and wide support Romania has showed for this Accord. Although there has been a change of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Andrei Zaharescu – Ponta Government’s spokesman
10 mai 2012
Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced, on Tuesday evening, that journalist Andrei Zaharescu will be the new Government’s spokesman. “I asked him and accepted, your colleague Andrei Zaharescu will be the Government’s spokesman in the following period”, Ponta told the private TV station Antena 3. PM Ponta also said that Andrei Zaharescu is to give him [...]
Continuă să citeşti...National Arena, the largest stadium in Romania, ready to host Europa League final
10 mai 2012
Romanian capital city Bucharest hosts on Wednesday the final of the Europa League football cup at the National Arena, a match between the Spanish teams Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, kick-off at 9:45 PM (8:45 PM in Spain and 7:45 GMT). The National Arena is the largest football stadium in Bucharest and in Romania, included [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta to ministers: If there is integrity problem I shall not be in two minds about taking painful measures
9 mai 2012
Premier Victor Ponta on Tuesday, during the Government meeting, warned the members of the Executive that he would take ‘unpleasant” or ‘painful’ measures against people who have an integrity problem. ‘I shall not be in two minds about taking unpleasant and painful measures if there is any kind of integrity problem, as I want to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...President Basescu believes tourism and food industries can be interest areas for Swiss investors
9 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu on Tuesday, in the discussions with Swiss Confederation Council President Hans Altherr, evoked a few areas with major potential for the Swiss investors, bringing to mind, among these, the tourism industry and the food industry, about which he says they are ‘capable of generating plus value’ both for the Romanian side and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...High security measures taken for Europa League final in Bucharest
9 mai 2012
Traffic will be clamped down in the area of the “National Arena” stadium in Bucharest on Wednesday, May 9 starting on 9:45 pm when the all-Spanish Europa League final between Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao takes place. Two fan zones will be organised in George Enescu Square and Constitution Square, both located in the city [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania hosting annual ESSA General Assembly
9 mai 2012
For the first time, Romania is playing host to the annual General Assembly of the European State Studs Association (ESSA), happening in Snagov (20 km north of Bucharest), and at the Stud Farm of Jegalia (150 km south of Bucharest), on May 8-9, announces the organizer the Romsilva National Forest Administration (RNP). Representatives of the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta Cabinet installed by Parliament
8 mai 2012
Ponta Cabinet was installed on Monday by the Parliament with 284 votes in favour and 92 against. Senate president Vasile Blaga announced that the Parliament grants confidence to the government with the MPs majority (which was 231 votes) and considering that 284 of them voted in favour, the majority is met to grant confidence to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...MFP borrows approximately 750 million lei from banks on Monday
8 mai 2012
The Public Finance Ministry (MPF) on Monday borrowed approximately 750 million lei (approximately 170.45 million euros) from commercial banks, through an issue of discounted T-bills, placed on tender through the National Bank of Romania (BNR). The securities have a one year maturity and the average yield the issue was adjudicated at was 5.02 percent. The [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM-designate Ponta: I am convinced fundamental change to Romania’s fate starts today
8 mai 2012
Romania’s Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta, chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and also co-chair of the Social Liberal Union (USL), told Parliament on Monday that he is nervous out of respect for the fundamental institution of any democracy, saying that if Parliament casts its vote of approval on his Cabinet, fundamental change will start [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Finance Minister-designate, IMF agree on deficit 0.35 pct of GDP broader
8 mai 2012
Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta said on Monday after the meeting with the IMF delegation held at the Palace of Parliament that the agreement in principle is finalized and Finance Minister nominee Florin Georgescu has negotiated a budget deficit by 0.35 pct of GDP broader for the projects envisaged by the new government. The Ponta Cabinet [...]
Continuă să citeşti...International Olympiad in Romanian language and culture to be organized at end-May
8 mai 2012
The Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport will organize the International Olympiad in Romanian language, culture and spirituality aiming to reinforce the Romanian language as an official EU language, on May 25-29 in Baia Mare (northern Romania). According to a release the Department for the Romanians Everywhere ,the competition is devoted to the students [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta Government goes on Monday to Parliament for committee hearings and plenary vote
8 mai 2012
The ministers nominated by Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta are to be examined on Monday, starting with 10:00 local time, during the hearings scheduled by the specialized committees, after which, at 16:00 local time, the joint plenum of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies is to vote on the Government’s investiture. For Ponta Government to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...International Olympiad in Romanian language and culture to be organized at end-May
7 mai 2012
The Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport will organize the International Olympiad in Romanian language, culture and spirituality aiming to reinforce the Romanian language as an official EU language, on May 25-29 in Baia Mare (northern Romania). According to a release the Department for the Romanians Everywhere sent to Agerpres, the competition is devoted [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Ponta Government goes on Monday to Parliament for committee hearings and plenary vote
7 mai 2012
The ministers nominated by Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta are to be examined on Monday, starting with 10:00 local time, during the hearings scheduled by the specialized committees, after which, at 16:00 local time, the joint plenum of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies is to vote on the Government’s investiture. For Ponta Government to [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu: I am unreservedly supporting restoring public wages to their pre-cut levels
7 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu on Sunday said that he is unreservedly supporting restoring public wages to their levels of before a 25-percent cut in 2010. ‘I am unreservedly supporting restoring the public wages to their pre-cut levels. This is what I have told the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the outgoing Cabinet, the IMF mission of February, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PDL’s Boc: PDL’s main objective is to return to power in December 2012
7 mai 2012
The main objective of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) is to return to power this December and the first stage in the process will be to win a good electoral score in the June 10 local elections, PDL Chairman Emil Boc said at the beginning of a PDL electoral meeting in Bucharest. ‘The objective of [...]
Continuă să citeşti...FinMin-designate Georgescu: Public wages will increase by 8pct in June
7 mai 2012
Public wages in Romania will increase by 8 percent as from June, because the necessary funds have been identified, Finance Minister-designate Florin Georgescu said on Saturday. The wages will increase by 8 percent and the public pensioners will get back in monthly installments the money they paid in additional healthcare contributions also from the same [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu to IMF: No letter to Parliament if public pension fund affected
7 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu said Sunday that he will not submit to Parliament the letter of intent of the Romanian Government to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unless the principle of not affecting the structural deficits of the public healthcare and pension funds is observed. ‘You are close to the end of your mission, so far [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Staple foods VAT cut, a priority of the USL Gov’t
5 mai 2012
Conservative Party (PC) chairman Daniel Constantin, whom PM-designate Victor Ponta has picked for Agriculture Minister, said in Cluj-Napoca that reducing the VAT for staple foods is a priority of the USL government. “The VAT cut proposal for staple foods is a commitment we have been discussing for long and which was also spelled out in [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Victor Ponta: We do not accept conditions from anyone
5 mai 2012
USL Government will not make any compromise over the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Targu Mures, during the talks with UDMR, said Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta, who underlined that legality is to be restored in the case of UMF. ”No, we do not accept conditions from anyone. We talked about another governing manner, and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Parliament: Nominees to be heard and voted on Monday
5 mai 2012
The standing bureaus of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate decided on Friday that specialist commissions would hear the nominated ministers on Monday, May 7, starting at 10 am Starting at 4 pm, they will hold the joint plenary meeting during which they will validate the Ponta Government.
Continuă să citeşti...EUROPAfest 2012 brings over 300 musicians of 45 countries to Bucharest
5 mai 2012
EUROPAfest 2012 jazz, blues, pop & classical music festival, which will bring to Bucharest for its 19th edition, in the period May 4-19, over 300 musicians of 45 countries, opens on Friday, May 4, in the evening, with a concert devoted to the Day of Europe celebration (May 9). According to jnEvents, the festival organizer, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...USL submits to Parliament Cabinet list and Gov’t programme
5 mai 2012
Minister-delegate for Parliament Mircea Dusa on Thursday evening submitted to Parliament a list of ministers picked for the Ponta Cabinet and the Government programme. On Friday morning, the standing bureaus of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate are scheduled to meet in a joint session to agree on a calendar for hearing the designated [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Romania not to attend Yalta Summit, but football must not be politicized
4 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu said that Romania will show solidarity with its EU colleagues and will not accept the invitation at the summit of the Central European leaders, to be held in Yalta, on May 11-12, given the case of former Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Yet, the president stressed that the football must not be [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PM designate: Neither Boc, nor Ungureanu allotted money to pensions and wages
4 mai 2012
Prime Minister designate Victor Ponta said that the Cabinets headed by Emil Boc and Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu did not allot money to the wage recovery and for the retirees to be returned the social welfare contributions (CAS). ‘Now when Florin Georgescu (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Finance in the future Cabinet – editor’s note), [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Sculpture by Constantin Brancusi is auctioned for 12.6 million dollars
4 mai 2012
The sculpture titled “Prometheus,” by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi, was sold for 12.6 million dollars at an auction at the New York headquarters of Sotheby’s. The sculpture that represents a drooping head is a minimalist work with influence from Romanian folklore, primitivism and the aesthetics at the time of the industrial revolution. The work, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Basescu to Moldovan counterpart: Thank you for honour of your first bilateral visit to Bucharest
4 mai 2012
President Traian Basescu on Thursday thanked Head of State of the Republic of Moldova Nicolae Timofti for the ‘honour’ of paying his first bilateral visit to Romania after being elected President. ‘I am happy with your being elected to the position of President of the Republic of Moldova and moreover you have insisted on emphasizing [...]
Continuă să citeşti...FinMin-designate Georgescu on exchange rates: Things will probably calm down a bit on Monday
3 mai 2012
Finance Minister-designate Florin Georgescu has stated that if Parliament votes in the Ponta Cabinet on Monday, May 7, things will probably calm down in respect to the exchange rates of the local currency, the leu (RON). ‘The exchange rates are free floating, they have to have a certain volatility to what happens in the world, [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Republic of Moldova president to pay official visit to Bucharest on Thursday
3 mai 2012
The Republic of Moldova’s President Nicolae Timofti will pay an official visit to Romania on Thursday on an invitation from President Traian Basescu. The agenda of the visit schedules official talks between the two heads of state, to be followed by a joint press declaration, the Presidential Administration announced. ‘During the talks with the president [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Victor Ponta: Euro soaring worries me but I bank on BNR governor
3 mai 2012
Prime Minister-designate Victor Ponta revealed his worry about the increase in the European currency but said he has utter confidence in the governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR). “I am obviously concerned. I trust the governor of the National Bank of Romania in the same time and I also trust that we moved [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PSD, UNPR ink protocol for Romania’s stability
3 mai 2012
Chairman of the National Union for Romania’s Progress (UNPR) Gabriel Oprea said at the Palace of Parliament that the protocol signed by his political formation and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is aimed at Romania’s stability. He stressed that the reason why UNPR was set up two years ago is exactly that of ensuring the [...]
Continuă să citeşti...PDL does not vote any government it is not part of
3 mai 2012
The Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) does not vote any government it is not part of, Democrat-Liberal Vasile Blaga said at the end of the meeting of the National Standing Bureau of this party. “PDL position is clear: we do not vote any government we are not part of. It was our position in 2007, and [...]
Continuă să citeşti...INS: ILO unemployment rate grows 0.4 percent in March up to 7.5 percent
3 mai 2012
The unemployment rate, in keeping with the standards of the International Labour Office (ILO), was estimated in March 2012 at 7.5 percent, in a seasonally adjusted form, up by 0.4 percent from the previous month and by 0.5 percentage points from March 2011, say the data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Contemporary Romanian Film Festival in Turin
3 mai 2012
The Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research (IRCCU) in Venice, in partnership with the National Museum of Cinematography and the mayoralty of Turin will organize the Romania-Italy Contemporary Romanian Film Festival, on May 2-9. The Festival is staged on the special occasion of Romania’s participation as the guest of honor, in the 25th edition [...]
Continuă să citeşti...“Stop the Blackmail-Prone Government! Never This Way!” censure motion – first Ungureanu Cabinet is facing
27 aprilie 2012
Parliament is debating and voting on Friday, in its plenum, the censure motion entitled “Stop the Blackmail-Prone Government! Never This Way!”, initiated by the Opposition, the first such confrontation Ungureanu Cabinet is facing since installation. For the motion to be adopted by the Parliament, 231 votes are needed, namely half plus one of all MPs [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Over 50 films at second Festival of Jewish Film
27 aprilie 2012
Over 50 films, most of them being firsts in Romania, will be screened during the second Festival of the Jewish Film in Bucharest, which will be held over April 27-May 3, at the Studio Cinema and the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. This year’s programme includes such sections as panorama, permanent guest [...]
Continuă să citeşti...Education Minister Baba: The Bologna Process has kept its initial political boost
27 aprilie 2012
The Bologna Process has kept its initial political boost as well as a high institutional and systemic commitment of the academics and the students alike, Romania’s Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sports Catalin Baba told a meeting of the Bologna Conference in Bucharest on Thursday. ‘Let us continue to seek ways that will not [...]
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