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ForMin Baconschi: Re-installation of Pro-European Govt in Chisinau to bring more attractiveness in Transdniester, too

18 ianuarie 2011

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The re-installation of a pro-European and reformist Government in Chisinau (capital city of the Republic of Moldova) will bring more attractiveness for the Transdniester’s inhabitants, too, and in the context, the 5+2 negotiations are expected to be formally resumed, Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said, late on Sunday. ‘I am positive that this (the installation of [...]

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Teodor Baconschi: Assessment for Schegen accession should not be done in terms of victory and defeat

18 ianuarie 2011

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Assessment for Romania’s accession delay to the Schengen Space, or the bilateral relations with France and Germany should not be done in terms of defeat and victory, stated on Sunday evening, in an interview for the private TV channel Realitatea TV, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi. “It’s a process, an obligation assumed through [...]

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Tennis: Monica Niculescu in second round at Australian Open

18 ianuarie 2011

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Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu has qualified on Monday for the second round of Australian Open, in Melbourne, while Edina Gallovits and Victor Hanescu were eliminated in the first round. Niculescu defeated Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 6-0, 6-3 and will play Bulgarian Tvetana Pironkova ( 32nd seed), who eliminated French Pauline Parmentier 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Edina [...]

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Foreign Minister: We want normal relation, on equal bases, with Russian Federation

18 ianuarie 2011

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Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said late on Sunday that Bucharest authorities sent Moscow several signals that they want a normal Romanian-Russian bilateral relation, based on equality, without giving an excessive importance to the historical litigations. ‘We have sent several signals that we want a normal relation, based on equality, and without giving an excessive importance [...]

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Baconschi: It’s utterly exaggerated to speak of crisis in bilateral relation with France

18 ianuarie 2011

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Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi says it is utterly exaggerated to speak of a crisis in Romania’s bilateral relation with France, since there is a very rich relationship between the two countries; however, there is need of more clarity in expressing either country’s position and the two states should also avoid communicating by means of [...]

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Dakar Rally: Motorcycle rider Mani Gyenes ranks 1st at Marathon

17 ianuarie 2011

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After 16 days of Dakar 2011 Rally-Raid, after traversing over 9,500 km in the most difficult conditions, motorcycle rider Emanuel Gyenes (Satu Mare, northwestern Romania) had on Sunday another motive of satisfaction, besides an excellent position 17 in the bikes’ overall rankings, as he was awarded in Buenos Aires for the first position in the [...]

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Romania to experience profound economic crisis by 2015 (financial advisor Ionel Blanculescu)

17 ianuarie 2011

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Financial advisor Ionel Blanculescu opines that Romania is to experience a profound economic crisis by 2015, given that starting 2012 the State begins to pay back the loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and to the other international financial institutions, and the budget will be extremely restricted. ‘As the international financial analysts have already [...]

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Adrian Nastase: It was Govt headed by Mugur Isarescu that made law ‘on insensitive pensions’

17 ianuarie 2011

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Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) National Council (CN) and Romania’s ex Prime Minister (Dec 2000- Dec 2004) Adrian Nastase wrote on his personal blog on Sunday, that it was the Government headed by Mugur Isarescu that created and promoted the law the ‘on insensitive pensions,’ a couple of months before the parliamentary and [...]

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Govt to set 200M-euro ceiling on First Home, in 2011

17 ianuarie 2011

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The Romanian Government will set total ceiling worth 200 million euros on the First Home Programme, in 2011, PM Emil Boc announced. He stressed that after the current budget runs out, the Government will expand the Programme depending on the resources it avails of. The allotted budget will be lower than last year when it [...]

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Dakar Rally: Motorcycle rider Mani Gyenes ranked 17 overall, Butuza ranked 57

17 ianuarie 2011

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The 32nd edition of Dakar Rally-Raid that ended on Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the victory of Spanish Marc Coma, at bike section, and Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, at car section, brought on the 17th position, for the first time in the history of the Dakar Rally-Raid the Romanian biker, Emanuel Gyenes (KTM – [...]

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MAE hails EU Council on Foreign Relations’ agenda schedules freedom of religion and faith

17 ianuarie 2011

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ForMin Teodor Baconschi sent a letter to his EU counterparts, where he hails and endorses that the future agenda of the European Council on Foreign Relations schedules the topic of the freedom of religion and belief, informs Foreign Ministry’s PR Department, on Saturday. ‘The letter reads that Romania is consistent in its main stances condemning [...]

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Tenis: Alexandra Cadantu in the finals at Plantation, USA

17 ianuarie 2011

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The Romanian tennis player Alexandra Cadantu made it to the finals of the ITF tournament at Plantation, Florida, USA with USD 25,000 total awards, after winning to Lenka Wienerova (Slovakia) in the semifinals 6-2, 4-6, 6-1. Cadantu 7th seeded in the finals will meet the Canadian player Sharon Fichman (8th seeded), the winner to Camila [...]

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PM Emil Boc hails Rep. of Moldova Government’s investiture

15 ianuarie 2011

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Prime-Minister Emil Boc on Friday sent a congratulations letter to his Moldovan counterpart Vlad Filat to hail the investiture of the Government of the Republic of Moldova by the Chisinau Parliament and wishes the Chisinau Gov’t chief and the governmental team’s member success, a press release reads. The Romanian Government expresses confidence that the Gov’t [...]

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PM Boc: Bucharest Govt awaits France’s detailed observations on Schengen evaluation

15 ianuarie 2011

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Bucharest Government awaits detailed observations from France that asked additional time to study the assessment report for Romania, PM Emil Boc said on Friday. ‘We wait to see the observations France carried out, because it was raised only one single objection, without any tangible punctual observations, and I am positive, there is no problem, technically [...]

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Victor Ponta signs cooperation agreement between PSD and Italy’s Democrat Party

15 ianuarie 2011

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A cooperation agreement between Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD, in opposition) and Italy’s Democrat Party was signed here on Friday by the two party presidents, Victor Ponta and Pierluigi Bersani respectively. The document say representatives of the Romanian community based in Italy should be included on the election lists of the Democrat Party, that pledges [...]

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Romania, Turkey cooperate on health care

15 ianuarie 2011

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Minister of Health Cseke Attila along with his Turkish counterpart professor Dr. Recep Akdag have decided to start collaborating on several fields of activity, especially for implementing the system regarding the differentiated pay of the medical staff, to be received according to their performance, a system Romania wants to introduce over this year, with Turkey [...]

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Interior min.: Romania’s Schengen evaluation report on SIS/SIRENE positive

15 ianuarie 2011

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Romania’s Schengen evaluation report on SIS/SIRENE unveiled in Brussels on Friday is positive and it was accepted by the member states without objections or observations, with the French representative having asked for additional time to study the document, the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior said in a release on Friday. It announces that the [...]

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Schengen assessment group: Reports on Romania and Bulgaria are not endorsed

15 ianuarie 2011

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The working group Schengen evaluation (Sch- EVAL), in Brussels, on Friday, was debating Romania’s report on SIS/SIRENE, and two reports on Bulgaria, one on the land borders and the second on SIS/SIRENE. None of the reports was endorsed. A fresh Sch-EVAL meeting is due on January 28. In Romania’s case, most of the EU countries [...]

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Moldovans, Turks and Chinese are most numerous legal immigrants in Romania

15 ianuarie 2011

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The Moldovans, Turks and Chinese are the most numerous legal immigrants recorded in Romania last year, according to an analysis unveiled by the Romanian Immigration Office in a release on Friday. The Romanians’ neighbours from the Republic of Moldova also top the list of the applications for short- and long-stay visas filed to the Immigration [...]

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Top diplomat hails MEPs’ commitment to important files for Romania

15 ianuarie 2011

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Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi expressed his appreciation of the European Parliament members’ commitment to priority fields for Romania, such as the Schengen Space accession. ‘We hail your commitment and support in fields of priority interest for Romania, in files having a stake in the European Parliament and in the European Union, at large, such as [...]

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Red Scorpions leave for Afghanistan on new mission

15 ianuarie 2011

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The 26th Neagoe Basarab Infantry Battalion based in Craiova, dubbed the Red Scorpions left for a new mission to Afghanistan on Friday, to act as part of ISAF mission. Battalion commander Lt Col Dan Ionescu said in an address that the Red Scorpions are aware their new mission will not be an easy one, but [...]

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Labour minister: No mother to be fired during her maternal leave

15 ianuarie 2011

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Minister of Labour Ioan Botis, at a press conference in Bistrita (northwest of Bucharest) on Friday, assured the mothers that they are not going to lose their jobs during their maternal leave either they stay at home for one year or for two. ‘No mother will be fired during the two year period. I said [...]

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Chancellor Andrei Marga: Education Law limits rights to study

15 ianuarie 2011

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Chancellor of Babes-Bolyai University (UBB) Andrei Marga Ph.D claims that applying the recently adopted laws – regarding pensions, salaries and education – “leads, as it has already been noticed, to nonsense,” and in the case of education, to “useless limitations of the rights to study.” There are at least four articles, varying in point of [...]

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Tennis: Australian Open – Raluca Olaru in second qualifying round

15 ianuarie 2011

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Romanian player Raluca Olaru won the second qualifying round for the main singles of Australian Open, after defeating South Korean Lee Jin-A, 6-0,6-3. This is the first Grand Slam tournament of the year and is due to start in Melbourne, on Monday. Raluca Olaru will face UK tennis woman Anne Keothavong in the second qualifying [...]

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PNL-PSD-PC alliance is in Romanian nation’s general interest (Liberal founding president)

15 ianuarie 2011

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The National Liberal Party’s (PNL) founding president Radu Campeanu on Friday said he is in favour of an alliance of all the opposition parties to be registered in court as, he argued, ‘the Romanian nation’s general interest’ is at stake. ‘I agree with forging an alliance with the Social Democratic Party (PSD). It must be [...]

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Dakar Rally: Motorcycle rider Mani Gyenes ranked 18th overall

15 ianuarie 2011

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Two stages before Dakar Rally 2011 comes to an end, the Romanian Mani Gyenes went up to position 18 in moto class in the overall ranking, 6h28’36″ from the winner of the first place, Spaniard Marc Coma. The rider from Satu-Mare, northern Romania ( riding a KM, belonging to Vectra Racing team), finished stage 11 [...]

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Justice Ministry receives European funds to update Court portal in Romania

15 ianuarie 2011

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The Justice Ministry received European funding to update the portal for Courts in Romania by the e-justice software managed by the European Commission, shows a release from the Justice Ministry sent on Friday. The source says that the project to be implemented in two years’ time has a total budget of 632,300 euros, the funds [...]

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Environment Minister: Sustainable consumption and production concept needs to be readied by May

15 ianuarie 2011

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The concept of sustainable consumption and production needs to be readied until the next session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 19) and must include a series of programs spanning the following ten years, Romanian Minister of Environment and Forestry Laszlo Borbely on Friday told the third CSD 19 meeting, addressing it in [...]

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Romania in December still had highest annual inflation rate in EU

15 ianuarie 2011

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December 2010 was the fifth consecutive month when Romania had the highest inflation rate in all the 27 European Union member states, 7.9 percent, higher than the 7.7 percent in November, considering that the annual inflation rate in the EU went up in December to 2.6 percent and it went beyond expectations in the eurozone, [...]

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Central Depository has registered more than 7 bln FP shares assigned in last

15 ianuarie 2011

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The Central Depositary registered a number of 4,924 stock ownership transfers, with shares issued by the Property Fund (PF), as a result of assignments in the period January 2008 – December 2010, the total number of assigned shares being 7.29 billion. According to a Central Depository release, in 2010, the total transfers of share ownerships, [...]

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Retired officers file complaints against Premier, SRI head and Defence and Interior Ministers

15 ianuarie 2011

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Representatives of the retired and reserve military personnel’s trade union (SCMDRR) filed complaints with the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice against Premier Emil Boc, Defence Minister Gabriel Oprea, Interior Minister Traian Igas and Romanian Intelligence Service manager George Maior, accusing them of violating the law and the court rulings [...]

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Premier Boc summons Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture to Government headquarters

15 ianuarie 2011

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Prime Minister Emil Boc on Friday, at the Government headquarters, has a meeting with Minister of Public Finance Gheorghe Ialomitianu and with other officials working with this ministry on the norms for the enforcement of the Fiscal Code. According to the press office of the Government, during the meeting they will also discuss aspects related [...]

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CCR, represented at Second World Conference on Constitutional Justice, in Brazil

15 ianuarie 2011

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Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) will be represented, in the period January 16-18 this year, by two judges participating in the Second World Conference on Constitutional Justice, organized by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court and by the Venice Commission in Rio de Janeiro. “Holding the Presidency of the Fifteenth Congress of the European Constitutional Courts Conference, [...]

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National Bank launches silver collector coin

15 ianuarie 2011

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As of Jan. 17, 2011, the National Bank of Romania (BNR) will launch a silver collector coin dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the “Gen. Dr. Aviator Victor Anastasiu” National Aeronautics and Space Medicine Institute, the National Bank said in a release. The coin has a face value of 10 lei, 37 mm in diameter, [...]

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Dacia sales in Europe rise 10.2% in 2010

15 ianuarie 2011

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The registrations of Dacia cars in Europe (EU plus EFTA) in 2010 stood at 262,777 units, up by 10.2% from 238,445 units in 2009, according to the statistics of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) , published on Thursday. The market share of the Romanian carmaker rose slightly, from 1.6% to 1.9%, over January-December 2010. [...]

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Hunor Kelemen, UDMR: UDMR’s only ally is Hungarian community

15 ianuarie 2011

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The only ally of the ruling Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) is the Hungarian community, said Minister of Culture Hunor Kelemen, who runs for the chairmanship of the Union. Hunor Kelemen told a news conference given in Miercurea Ciuc (central Romania) on Thursday that he was a supporter of centre-right policies and that the [...]

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Tennis: Australian Open – Begu and Gojnea, in second qualifying round

15 ianuarie 2011

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Romanian players Irina Begu and Madalina Gojnea won on Friday the games played in the second qualifying round for the main singles table at Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, scheduled between January 17 and 30 in Melbourne. Irina Carmelia Begu won against Australian Tammi Patterson 6-0, 1-6, 6-1 and will [...]

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Romanian population down 4,128 in November 2010

15 ianuarie 2011

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The number of newborns registered in Romania in November 2010 was 17,773 (accounting for a birth rate of 10.1 per 1,000 inhabitants), whereas the number of deaths was 21,901 (12.4 deceased per 1,000 inhabitants), resulting in a negative growth of the population of 4,128 persons, informs a Friday release of the National Statistics Institute (INS). [...]

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Schengen evaluation working group debates Romania’s report on SIS/SIRENE

15 ianuarie 2011

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The Schengen evaluation working group (Sch-EVAL) on Friday, in Brussels, is also debating Bulgaria’s two reports on land borders and SIS/SIRENE so that it may adopt Romania’s report on SIS/SIRENE. Romania was last visited for the Schengen area accession evaluation in the field of SIS/SIRENE at the beginning of December. The programme of the SIS/SIRENE [...]

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DIICOT has destructured a traffickers gang, bringing cocaine from South America concealed in deep-frozen fish

15 ianuarie 2011

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Prosecutors from the Division of Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) have destructured a gang of Colombian, Romanian and other nationalities, specialized in smuggling cocaine, the drugs being brought from South America to Romania hidden in containers with deep-frozen fish. Prosecutors have made seven house searches in Bucharest and Ilfov County (south), detaining two [...]

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