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Nature takes revenge for ecological disaster

May 31st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Except earthquakes, the other natural phenomena that cause disaster are increasingly kept under control. This happens not only in technologically developed states, but in...

Business»

Bosch Group, more determined to expand its business in Romania

Bosch Group, more determined to expand its business in Romania

May 31st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
The German company plans investments of EUR 120 M by 2013. 2011 was a successful year for Bosch in Romania. “Because of a 17 per cent growth in sales, which reached EUR...

Politics»

Barroso in Bucharest, to meet Basescu and Ponta

Barroso in Bucharest, to meet Basescu and Ponta

May 31st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso is on official visit in Bucharest today, where he will meet President Traian Basescu and Premier Victor Ponta,...

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Health Minister announces hospital controls

Health Minister announces hospital controls

May 31st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Vasile Cepoi stated yesterday that 52 emergency hospitals will be checked starting on Friday.   The Health Ministry will audit emergency hospitals. Thus, starting on...

World»

Syrian troops shell Houla again, activists say

Syrian troops shell Houla again, activists say

May 31st, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Syrian rebels set Friday truce deadline. Syrian forces shelled Houla early Thursday, opposition activists said, days after shadowy men went door-to-door in the town, slaughtering...

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Barroso in Bucharest, to meet Basescu and Ponta

The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso is on official visit in Bucharest today, where he will meet President Traian Basescu and Premier Victor Ponta, and will attend the conference ‘Challenges and opportunities for the future EU budget,’ organised at the Parliament Palace by the Government of Romania, and attended by the prime [...]

PDL attacks pure uninominal vote law at Constitutional Court

PDL filed yesterday, at the Constitutional Court, its notification concerning the pure uninominal vote law drafted by Victor Ponta and Crin Antonescu, the Democrat-Liberals claiming that the law violates the people’s sovereignty and the equality of rights principle. The announcement was made by PDL MP Sulfina Barbu during a press conference. Barbu stated that the [...]

Bosch Group, more determined to expand its business in Romania

The German company plans investments of EUR 120 M by 2013. 2011 was a successful year for Bosch in Romania. “Because of a 17 per cent growth in sales, which reached EUR 188 M, we managed to surpass the goal we had set for 2011 and thus we contributed to the positive global evolution of [...]

Symbolic rain in Sibiu

The first weekend of the Sibiu Theater Festival was a rainy one, as if a reminder of for Katrin Brack’s scenographic knack for Kleist’s ‘The Prince von Homburg’:  soaking rain, sinuous streams of water on the slippery floor. The “rain-soaked” characters are on a permanent quest for inner balance, tormented by inclement weather, shadows and [...]

Towards a new cinema culture

The new Church of Cinema. With screening halls turned into the new places of warship where the masses of the cinematographic art are performed. With catecheses meant to deepen the new belief through master classes, workshops and conferences devoted to all its aspects: from the art of acting to digital innovations, from the secrets of [...]

Ponta sacks ANRE Vice President Petru Lificiu

Prime Minister Victor Ponta continues the series of sackings he started three weeks ago after he became Head of Government. Ponta announced yesterday during a press conference in Iasi that he will sack National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) Vice President Petru Lificiu. The Premier expressed his disapproval of the statements that Lificiu made on Wednesday [...]

Syrian troops shell Houla again, activists say

Syrian rebels set Friday truce deadline. Syrian forces shelled Houla early Thursday, opposition activists said, days after shadowy men went door-to-door in the town, slaughtering families with knives and guns, CNN reports.The attacks started shortly after United Nations observers left the town, said a local resident whom CNN is not naming for safety reasons. Government [...]

Health Minister announces hospital controls

Vasile Cepoi stated yesterday that 52 emergency hospitals will be checked starting on Friday.   The Health Ministry will audit emergency hospitals. Thus, starting on Friday, the Health Ministry will conduct an investigation within 52 emergency hospitals throughout the country in order to check their pharmaceutical drug needs and their financial situation. “The first stage [...]

Foreign Affairs Ministry recommends expulsion of Syrian Ambassador

The proposal comes as a protest against the Houla massacre. FM Andrei Marga also proposes recalling the Romanian ambassador from Damascus. Foreign Affairs Minister Andrei Marga stated that the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) has proposed to the government and the presidency the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador to Bucharest, as well as the recall of [...]

Probe in Mircea Diaconu case gets expanded

The prosecutors of the Supreme Court expanded the investigations in the case of Culture Minister Mircea Diaconu, suspect of being in a conflict of interests, and put him under criminal probe for helping his wife receive some contracts, in his position of manager of the Nottara Theatre, Mediafax reports. After questioning Diaconu, prosecutors say they [...]