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...
Viewpoint
PSD’s fate as the Romanian democratic left-wing’s sole party affects the structural balance of the political stage in Romania and because of that it concerns us all. In the following period PSD’s main problem won’t be Traian Basescu, PD-L or PNL, but PSD itself.
Any organism reproduces according to its genetic program, passing on its traits to its descendants. For a change to occur a mutating factor is needed. In what concerns PSD, it has ended up being a regional party without a territory, an army led not by general staff...
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...
TEHRAN - Iran said it will start making higher-grade reactor fuel today and will add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West. The statement by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation head Ali Akbar Salehi followed orders from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday for work to begin on producing atomic fuel for a Tehran research reactor. It may increase Western suspicions that Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at making bombs, a charge Tehran denies. Iran informed the U.N. nuclear agency in...
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...
Romania took effective measures to correct its budget deficit, and the European Commission (EC) proposed to push back by one year, to 2012, the deadline for bringing the deficit under 3 pc of the GDP, the European executive announced on Monday.
“Romania has made a serious effort to limit the deterioration of its budget deficit and to preserve macroeconomic stability during the past year. “The worsening of the economic situation since the initial recommendations were made, justifies extending the deadline by one year. But the consolidation...
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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....
Razvan Lucescu, the head coach of the Romanian national football team, expects two difficult games against France in Group D of the Euro 2012 Qualifiers but opines that France remains the favourite, Agerpres reports.
‘There will be two battles but France is the favorite. It is difficult to talk only several months after our most recent games against them but France’s players...
VANCOUVER - Italian ski showman Alberto Tomba turned the 1992 Albertville Olympics into Alberto-ville, and now Lindsey Vonn is putting out a welcome mat for Vonn-couver.
The host city that grew up at a time of 19th century gold rushes is braced for another stampede, this time of eager athletes brandishing skis and skates — and the occasional broom — rather than picks and...
Steve Stricker held off England’s Luke Donald to win the Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles by two strokes, BBC Sports informs.
Donald fired a 66 but Stricker’s 70 was enough for a 16-under-par 268 winning total as he deposed fellow American Phil Mickelson as the world number two. Dustin Johnson and JB Holmes shared third place on 271, with Mickelson 14 shots behind leader...
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...
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu has cancelled her remaining two performances of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bizet’s “Carmen.”
Gheorghiu withdrew in August from her first six performances of the run, which began Dec. 31. She was to appear in those performances with her husband, tenor Roberto Alagna. The staging had been designed around the couple, but...
According to the organizers of the show, all tickets for the Sarah Chang Violin Battle performance on Valentine’s Day are sold out. The concert is part of a Culture Crusade larger project meant to support quality as opposed to kitsch in performing arts.
Violinist Sarah Chang is recognized the world over as one of classical music’s most captivating and gifted artists....
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...
General Gabriel Gabor, chief of the Human Resources Division of MoD, questioned yesterday as witness in a corruption lawsuit, acknowledged that he interceded with acquaintances for the businesswoman from Vaslui, Maricica Iovita, charged with having given money in order that the businessman Adrian Porumboiu would be investigated.
The General admitted he knew the businesswoman from Vaslui,...
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