Private environment provides 4.5 times more unemployed than the state field.
Mehedinti (14.5 per cent), Vaslui (13.5 per cent), Alba (13.4 per cent) are the counties with the highest level of unemployment, while Bucharest (2.4 per cent), Ilfov (2.6 per cent) and Timis (4.4 per cent) register the lowest rates, reads a press release of the National Employment Agency.
The total number of unemployed exceeds 740,000 persons, of whom the men are more than half.
The unemployment rate exceeded the average of 8.1 per cent, a level comparable only with the year 2003, when the unemployed had risen to 8.6 per cent. In January were registered 31,599 more unemployed (740,982 persons) than in December 2009. According to ANOFM press release, out of the 740,000 unemployed, 605,371 come from the private environment, being 4.5 times more than those laid off by the state units.
According to the estimates of the IMF officials, the unemployment rate could rise this year to 10 per cent in Romania, but it is expected to drop in the second half of the year...
Independent Deputy Dan Pasat announced the Standing Bureau about his affiliation to PDL, while the Social-Democrat Ioan Damian to the group of the independents, the secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, Sever Voinescu announced yesterday, quoted by Agerpres. According to the information filed with the Standing Bureau, Dan Pasat is active in PDL since February 4, while Ioan Damian since February 3 in the group of the independents. Dan Pasat was elected on the electoral lists of PNL, from October until November 2009 he acted in PDL, and then in the group of...
Adrian Nastase, President of PSD’s National Council and one of the candidates with real chances to win the party’s leadership, fears ‘backstage games’ ahead of the February 20 Congress.
Adrian Nastase announced on Monday at the end of the Permanent National Bureau meeting that both the representation criteria and the number of delegates at the Congress will be established at the end of bilateral talks that Liviu Dragnea, the party’s secretary general, is expected to hold with party branch leaders. The talks could take place this week.
According to Nastase, some party branch leaders are not satisfied with the number of delegates and with the selection criteria, asking for the latter to include the results registered in the first...
Bucharest’s budget may double if district mayor’s offices are dissolved, under a draft law on the capital’s administrative reorganisation promoted by the Interior Ministry, daily ‘Romania libera’ reported. “The City Hall budget is currently EUR 1.3 bln but the budgets of all six districts reach a total of EUR 1.7 bln. The new Bucharest would mean a total budget of EUR 3 bln,” said Save Bucharest Association’s programme director Nicusor Dan. District 6 Mayor Cristian Poteras also claims that by administrative centralisation, the capital’s budget would amount to 35...
France has agreed to sell a Mistral class warship to Russia, a French official said on Monday, despite concerns expressed by Georgia, the United States and other countries.
Russia wanted to buy the 21,300-tonne helicopter carrier from France to modernise hardware that was exposed as outdated during its five-day war against Georgia in 2008.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was visiting Paris on Monday and told his French counterpart, Herve Morin, that he was concerned about the sale, a U.S. official...
The opposition leader has a narrow lead over PM Tymoshenko in the presidential election. International monitors endorse poll.
KIEV - Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich pressed rival Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat yesterday after a narrow victory in a presidential election that could tilt the ex-Soviet state back towards Moscow. With 98.4 percent of votes counted, official figures gave ex-mechanic Yanukovich, whose party is allied to the Kremlin’s United Russia, a margin of 2.8 percentage points over firebrand Prime Minister Tymoshenko, meaning she could not overtake him. Tymoshenko, who called supporters onto the streets in 2004 to overturn a previous Yanukovich...
WASHINGTON - Israel’s defence minister said on Wednesday the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem in peace talks with the Palestinians to be launched by U.S. President Barack Obama. A flare-up of violence in the Palestinian West Bank and a deadlock over Jewish settlements there loom as potential deal-breakers for Obama, who will host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for dinner at the White House in Washington.
Obama brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas together for face-to-face...
BNR representatives consider that this modification would give a positive signal over the Romanian economy.
Public finance minister Sebastian Vladescu considers that Romania could shift, after the next evaluation, from a stand-by loan agreement to a “precautionary” arrangement with IMF, which would demonstrated that the Romanian economy steadily recovers. However, Vladescu believes that it is too early to say if this decision can be made soon. “It is too early to say if we shall change the arrangement after the next evaluation. Hopefully, we shall shift to a precautionary agreement, because this would mean that the global economy is recovering and the...
The new draft pension law has been approved by the PD-L Standing Bureau and is pending presentation in the cabinet.
The new draft pension law was yesterday sanctioned by the PD-L National Standing Bureau (BPN) and will be presented in the government, PM Emil Boc announced in a televised press statement. He assured that the bill observes the principle of contribution, it eliminates special pensions and would secure a public pension to all Romanians at the end their professional life, according to HotNews.
Statistics show a total of 4,364 million workers and 4,742 million retired (not including people retired from agriculture) in November 2009. The ratio is 10 workers...
The home consumption of fast-moving consumer goods in H1 dropped by 4 per cent in national currency from a year earlier, being the first decrease recorded in the last ten years, with personal care products and home cleaning goods being the most affected, a GfK press release issued yesterday states. Among the categories with the steepest volume falls the ones that stand out are deodorants (-21 per cent), universal cleaning products (-19 per cent), chocolate tablets (-18 per cent), the decrease being primarily due to the fact that they were purchased by fewer...
Behind the appearance of quietness and concentration, the current Boc Government keeps analyzing the draft of the new pension law. The deadline for sending the project to Parliament has been repeatedly deferred, in spite of the IMF and World Bank request to give priority to this legislative act among the measures aimed to cope with the current economic and financial crisis. In order to appease to a certain extent this deviation from the conditions formulated by the bankers as a preamble to the financial loan granted to Romania, Premier Boc has recently “acknowledged” that the first condition for the modernization of the Romanian state is in the future law regarding pensions and salaries.
But the appearances of quietness and concentration disclose an unpredictable bitterness. The supporters of the current governmental coalition and members of the Executive overdo in connection with the fact that we have too many pensioners, while the pension budget shows a deficit....
NEW YORK - Rafa Nadal made a smooth start to his bid to capture the one grand slam that has eluded him when he wore down Russia’s Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-6 7-6 6-3 in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
Dressed menacingly in an all black outfit, Nadal had to dig deep to see off the stubborn Gabashvili after three hours of intense shotmaking from both men at Arthur Ashe...
All but two of FC Vaslui’s players boycotted the team’s morning training session on Wednesday, under the pretext that club owner Adrian Porumboiu gave them several days of holiday. Porumboiu is displeased with head coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro’s performance, the team being 14th in the standings with only 5 points in 6 games, but hesitates sacking him. FC Vaslui finished last season on a...
ANKARA – Leandro Barbosa’s potential game-tying lay-up caught the rim but didn’t go down as the USA survived to beat Brazil 70-68 in a memorable game at Abdi Ipekci Arena on Monday, fiba.com informs.
Marcelo Huertas was fouled in the final seconds, but his first free-throw was short. He missed the second one intentionally and chased the ball down before passing to Barbosa under the...
From the ‘60s Pop-Art culture to ripped jeans and transparent glossy fabrics, the 2010 season in fashion encompasses them all. Inspired by recession, designers say “everything goes.”
One of the spring 2010’s season absolute champions is the knee- high and over knee sock. Knee high socks - as well as over-the-knee and thigh high socks - are back as a trend, and the options on how to wear them are many. From the sporty to the sparkly, to layerings of socks over tights; a great pair of socks can add volumes to an outfit.
Also, as part of a design trend that looks...
The National Theatre Festival (FNT) will present, in its 20th edition, the latest play directed by Silviu Purcarete – Le Roi se meurt (Exit the King), by Eugene Ionesco, an international production. The show premieres on September 15, within the Ex Ponto Festival in Slovenia, and will be presented, then, within the FNT, before touring to France, Italy, Montenegro, Macedonia and Croatia. This new...
The legendary Jazz musician is for the first time in Romania.
The Palace Hall will sound of the best in jazz sounds this fall, as on October 29 as of 8 pm, a unique and first-time concert featuring Herbie Hancock will delight quality music fans.
Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while still maintaining his unique, unmistakable voice. The musician’s success at...
Blizzards continued to cause trouble on Romanian roads. Schools remain closed in Bucharest, Calarasi, Teleorman and Galati counties. Dozens of trains were cancelled, sea ports were closed, and many people - even pregnant women - were blocked in their cars
A number of 17 national roads, and the Bucharest-Pitesti and A2 motorways, were closed to traffic on Monday.
Preschoolers and pupils grades 1 through 8 will stay home today too because of inclement weather, the Bucharest School Inspectorate decided yesterday. School classes in Bucharest and 11 of Romania’s counties were also suspended for the same reason Monday. Bucharest School...
A recent analysis of the General Romanian Police Inspectorate (IGPR) regarding the “human trafficking” shows that the main reasons for which Romania is lagging behind in terms of combating the phenomenon appear to be the precarious economic conditions and the information level. “The place of our country on the map of the trading of people is given particularly by the bad...
Turkish ship sinks near Constanta
A Turkish flag ship loaded with scrap iron sank near the Port of Constanta yesterday, Mediafax reports. Wednesday morning at about 4:30, the ship started to lurch. Two other vessels were sent to the area to rescue the ship, but failed. The 17 sailors onboard were rescued. No one knows for sure what caused the distress, but two options are being...
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