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A new dynamic in Mideast?

June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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...

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Romania’s exports: EUR 15.67 bln, in first four months of 2013

Romania’s exports: EUR 15.67 bln, in first four months of 2013

June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Capitalising the strategic partnership agreements with Turkey, USA, China allow Romania’s exports opening to companies of these countries in an accelerated pace, Economy...

Politics»

Main political target –  consolidating relations with the US

Main political target – consolidating relations with the US

June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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,...

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Baia Mare mayor, under criminal probe for bribe taking and influence peddling

June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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...

World»

Afghans take nationwide security lead from NATO

June 18th, 2013 at 9:00 PM
NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the BBC informs. At a ceremony in Kabul, President Hamid...

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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 [...]

A Carousel of Visual Wanderings

Anand Ghandhi chooses the political correct path, speaking of vegan philosophy and philanthropy. It does it pointing towards contradictions, yet always against the backdrop of this technological novelty. The first story is promising. A blind woman is roaming the streets of Mumbai, taking mundane snapshots with a sound-and-color-adjusted camera (despite the black and white option). [...]

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 [...]