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The make-up errors and spineless practices of Romanian parties have led them, in the midst of recession, straight into a trap.
Tributary to the bad habit of governing according to the polls (when, in fact, polls should only test responses to the government act) and noticing that the Government’s policies are not popular, the opposition announced that it would promote a no-confidence vote. As they announced it, they have to go through with it! Otherwise they will lose their credibility. Thus, parties act guided by deeds, or, in fact, by words, rather than...
The Social Democrat Party will file a complaint against Democrat Liberal Party Vice President Ioan Oltean for the statements he made concerning his party’s control over the Internal Affairs Ministry during the last presidential elections, Agerpres informs.
According to press information, during a joint meeting held by PDL’s parliamentary groups, Oltean allegedly said that the Democrat-Liberals would not have won the elections had Social-Democrat Dan Nica remained Internal Affairs Minister. “We have to admit that if we wouldn’t have thrown the frog out of...
PNL to submit regular motion on labour
Opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) is going to submit a regular motion on labour matters in Parliament, party leader Crin Antonescu announced after the PNL Central Standing Bureau meeting yesterday, according to Mediafax. “What we are interested in as policies is that they give up on this aberration produced in what regards royalties. Whether or not it means that the minister in charge should leave or be ousted is a less important matter,” Antonescu said. Liberals’ intention to introduce a motion had...
Moldova poll fails, ruling Alliance on back foot
Moldova’s pro-Western leaders pondered their next move on Monday after a referendum designed to break a political deadlock in the ex-Soviet republic failed due to poor turnout, dealing them a humiliating setback. As opposition Communists in the country of 3.5 million revelled, one leader in the ruling four-party Alliance for European Integration conceded that the referendum, called to decide on whether the country should switch to direct presidential elections, had been “a tactical error”. “Some of...
Concerned with the recent outbreak of riots over food prices in the African nation of Mozambique, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced Saturday it will hold a special meeting this month to discuss rising wheat prices, CNN reported. FAO officials, food experts and government representatives are scheduled to meet in Rome on Sept. 24 to find ways to ease the price fluctuation affecting grain markets, U.N. officials said in a statement.
Studies show that wheat prices soared in August, the biggest monthly rise in almost a year,...
MADRID - The Basque separatist group ETA has decided to stop carrying out armed attacks, Basque-language newspaper Gara said on its website on Sunday. Gara did not make clear whether the ceasefire was permanent or temporary.
Interior ministry officials declined to comment on the statement by ETA, which has been responsible for around 850 deaths in a four-decade fight to carve out an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southern France. In a video posted on the Gara site, three figures were shown dressed in black, their faces covered with white...
The incoming Minister of Finance, Gheorghe Ialomitianu, has made the announcement that people paying royalties and those working under civil agreements would not have to submit income statements and pay associated contributions. ‘People who get an income from royalties and those working under civil agreements do no longer have to submit the statement and make the payment themselves. The legislation will be changed and the money will be withheld at the source, meaning that the payer will have the duty to sent the contribution to the budget; it is the most...
According to a National Statistics Institute (INS) communiqué, the net average nominal salary stood at RON 1,355 in July, down by RON 67 (4.7 per cent) compared to June, Agerpres informs. In the same month the gross average nominal salary stood at RON 1,868, 4.3 per cent lower than the level reported the month before. The highest value of the net average nominal salary was reported in the financial intermediations’ sector (RON 3,436), while the lowest was reported in the hotels and restaurants sector (RON 799).
The net average salary reported the...
Franklin Templeton takes over FP asset management
The general meeting of shareholders (AGA) of the Proprietatea Fund (FP) yesterday approved the appointment of Franklin Templeton Investment of Britain as single manager of the fund, Mediafax reports. The company will take over the fund management after publication of AGA resolutions in the Official Journal. The Proprietatea Fund assets total some RON 11 bln. The Proprietatea Fund could be listed on the London Stock Exchange at the end of next year, Franklin Templeton Chairman and CEO Mark Mobius...
Andy Murray hobbled out of the U.S. Open on Sunday, beaten 6-7 7-6 6-3 6-3 in the third round by Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka after his ailing body let him down.
Struggling to run at full speed after requiring treatment to his legs, elbow and neck, Murray appeared powerless to stop Wawrinka, who was battling his own injury problems but still played superbly, from pulling off the...
MotoGP is looking to develop improved body protection for riders to help them survive the kind of accident that has killed two teenagers on successive race weekends. Nineteen-year-old Japanese Shoya Tomizawa, a rising talent who won this year’s first Moto2 race, died in Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix after he fell and was hit at around 240kph by other riders close behind.
Only a week...
Romania to play against Turkey or Macedonia for 7th-10th EC polo ranking
Romania’s water polo team will take on the national squad of Turkey or Macedonia for the slots 7th-10th at the European Polo Championship in Zagreb. Romanians finished bottom of group A, missing out Sunday on qualifying into the quarter-finals of the European competition, despite drawing 9-9 with reigning...
George Clooney outgunned his rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office in North America with a low-calibre opening for his assassin drama “The American,” as the lucrative summer movie going season wound down on a traditionally weak note. According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, “The American” earned $13 million during the three-day period beginning Sept. 3; its tally stands at...
The Venice Film Festival honoured veteran director John Woo at a star-filled celebration awarding him with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Daily Mail reports. Woo accepted the award from American director Quentin Tarantino, president of the jury for the main competition at this year’s festival, and Hong Kong director Tsui Hark. He dedicated the award to his mother, wife and family. Woo...
For the third year consecutively, Romania is a guest in the Thames Festival. Running between September 11 and 12 and organized by the London Mayor’s Office, the festival is the most spectacular open-air event, celebrating the river and the cultural diversity of London. Romania is present in all the four sections of the festival: New European Village, Bandstand, Feast on the Bridge and Carnival...
Armed robbery at Timisoara betting office
A sports betting office in Timisoara was robbed yesterday by a young man who threatened one of the two female employees with a gun and then took off with RON 17,000, Timis Police Inspectorate spokesperson Emil Matei said, quoted by Mediafax. Both female workers at the betting office were locked in the bathroom by the assailant, who is...
The suspect is reportedly member of a feared underworld clan with political connections.
Repeat offender Daniel Uta, accused of hitting a police officer and leaving him in a coma in a pub in Targoviste, was detained on Monday for 24 hours, being accused of attempted murder, Mediafax informs. Uta was heard by prosecutors for over five hours. According to investigators, during the hearing he did not admit to having committed the crime. On Monday the prosecutors were expected to ask the...
The poor results in the first, eliminatory task of the National Institute of Magistracy (INM) admission competition stand for ‘a mordant failure’, Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu stated at the Council of Magistracy (CSM) meeting held yesterday. In his view, several explanations are possible: candidates had been very poorly trained, questions had been incorrectly conceived, the way in which the...
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