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Romania’s exports: EUR 15.67 bln, in first four months of 2013
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Turkish investors to promote in their country the Romanian privatisation offersEconomy Minister Varujan Vosganian had a series of meetings yesterday with various investors active in Romania,...by anca.bernovici on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Competition Council: CFR Marfa debt to shares conversion – not state aidThe days left until the finalisation of CFR Marfa privatisation appear to be quite troubled, the Ministry of Transport...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Cultivated land and animals, disclosed for tax purposesAll individuals who make an income either in cash or in kind from the cultivation and marketing of flowers, vegetables...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Main political target – consolidating relations with the US
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Parliament dismisses referendum initiated by President Traian BasescuThe Senate and Chamber of Deputies yesterday rejected by 191 votes in favour, 123 against and 69 abstentions the...by ioana.micu on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Romanian-Russian cooperation memorandum on security signedPresident Traian Basescu said that the memorandum will open up an avenue for cooperation between the security and...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Parliamentary committees approve new ambassadorsVasile Soare and Andreea Pastarnac were approved as Ambassadors to Russia and Israel, respectively, by the parliamentary...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Baia Mare mayor, under criminal probe for bribe taking and influence peddling
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Poll: Corruption running deeper in Romania than in other statesMore than half of the Romanians consider that corruption in Romania is all-pervading and more widespread than in...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Military pensions will return to the level before recalculationThe Chamber of Deputies adopted yesterday, with 262 votes to 15 and 22 abstentions, a draft law that returns the...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Heat wave makes first victim: a woman died in BucharestNext week the thermal regime will be relatively constant and close to the normal of the date, around 30 degrees...by nineoclock on June 17th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Afghans take nationwide security lead from NATO
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Syria persists as G8 weighs counterterror, tax evasionLeaders from the G8 nations are using a second day of talks to discuss countering terrorism and corporate tax evasion,...by nineoclock on June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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G8 N. Ireland summit: 7 against 1 over SyriaBELFAST – Ending Syria’s brutal civil war will take on fresh urgency at this week’s Group of Eight summit...by nineoclock on June 17th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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Main political target – consolidating relations with the US
During the talks yesterday between the Romanian president and CIA Director, John O. Brennan said that SIE and SRI are remarkable. President Traian Basescu received yesterday, at the Presidential Palace, CIA director John O. Brennan, to whom he confessed that Romania’s main political target is the consolidation of relations with the US. “It is our [...]
Romania’s exports: EUR 15.67 bln, in first four months of 2013
Capitalising the strategic partnership agreements with Turkey, USA, China allow Romania’s exports opening to companies of these countries in an accelerated pace, Economy Ministry reveals in a press release. Romania’s FOB exports, in the first four months of this year, stood at EUR 15.67 bln, exceeding by 7.2 per cent the export volume of the [...]
Parliament dismisses referendum initiated by President Traian Basescu
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies yesterday rejected by 191 votes in favour, 123 against and 69 abstentions the decisions sanctioning President Basescu’s request to hold a new referendum on a unicameral Parliament with 300 MPs. The Parliament’s opinion is consultative. The opposition and the power however gave distinct interpretations to the vote yesterday. PDL [...]
Piano four hands version of Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody at Radio Hall
Go and see this special Radio Hall event feturing Valentin-Roxana Gheorghiu, one of the last concerts to close the 2012-2013 musical season. A piano recital means is an elegant musical event: a piano four hands recital however doubles the artistic accomplishment and virtuosity of such performance, the more so as the two pianists are two [...]
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Baia Mare mayor, under criminal probe for bribe taking and influence peddling
The National Anticorruption Directorate announced yesterday that the mayor of Baia Mare, Catalin Chereches, is targeted by a criminal probe for bribe taking and influence peddling, both in continued form, and for making financial operations, such as acts of commerce incompatible with his position. According to prosecutors during 2011-2013 Catalin Chereches received money “as undue [...]
Romanian-Russian cooperation memorandum on security signed
President Traian Basescu said that the memorandum will open up an avenue for cooperation between the security and police structures of Romania and the Russian Federation. President Traian Basescu said on Monday, in a press statement, that the main objective of the presence in Bucharest at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace of Secretary of the Security [...]
A new dynamic in Mideast?
The international press carefully monitors the movements which are permanently made on the Middle East chessboard. First there is the issue of the civil war in Syria, where one expects the Geneva -2 meeting, the subject of an agreement between USA and Russia. The F-16 planes sent by the USA to Jordan for a joint [...]
Parliamentary committees approve new ambassadors
Vasile Soare and Andreea Pastarnac were approved as Ambassadors to Russia and Israel, respectively, by the parliamentary committees yesterday. Soare said, that the latest signals from Russia indicated ‘growing openness’ and a change of ‘the tone of foreign policy’ in respect of our country. ‘There is growing openness on their side and I believe we [...]
Senate approves termination of ICR leadership’s mandate
Senate approves termination of ICR leadership’s mandate Andrei Marga’s resignation from the helm of the Institute, as well as Horia Garbea’s resignation from the office of ICR Vice President, officially registered at the Senate. President Basescu urges Senate leadership, USL senators to stop politicising ICR. The Senate’s plenum adopted yesterday the draft decision concerning the [...]


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