Monthly Archives May 2013

Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, John Bercow, who is on an official visit to Romania, traveled to Craiova (about 246 km south-west of Bucharest) together with British Ambassador in Bucharest Martin Harris and Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea; the three met with Dolj County Council president Ion Prioteasa, Craiova City mayor Lia Olguta Vasilescu, and Subprefect Ionel Ciobotea. Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea said the visit to Craiova of Rt. Hon. Bercow is a historic event that demonstrates the friendship between the two countries, but also that
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The president of the International Judo Federation, Romanian Marius Vizer, on Friday was elected president of the SportAccord sports organization, which brings together Olympic and non-Olympic international sports federations. Vizer was elected by 52 votes, whereas his contestant, Frenchman Bernard Lapasset, president of the International Rugby Board, reaped 37 votes. The candidacy of Vizer, 56, former owner of the Liberty football club in Oradea (western Romania), was supported, among others, by former great gymnast Nadia Comaneci and by former tennis player Ilie Nastase, both of them being present in Sankt Petersburg. Vizer succeeds Dutchman Hein Verbruggen as president of SportAccord.
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General managers in Romania are more optimistic than their global counterparts when it comes to their businesses’ growing potential, according to the results of a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers consultancy company. Thus, 42 percent of the respondents showed they are quite confident when it comes to their business’ growing potential in the next year, while 60 percent said they were expecting this grow to happen in the next three years (compared with 36 percent and 46 percent of foreign managers). ‘In exchange, the general manager’s optimism when it comes to their own companies seems to be considered separately from the
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Romania was officially acknowledged as having the world’s largest national flag, in a record approved on the Clinceni aerodrome in the presence of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea, Minister of Defence Mircea Dusa and the Guinness Book representative. “I know how difficult it was to piece together this huge flag. I want to thank the Ministry of National Defence that contributed to this event, and my thanks and congratulations are all the more so deserved as setting a world record is a special achievement, but having a record that is based on a national symbol is
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The world elite of Enduro motorcycle racers will gather in Buzau (110 km north-east of Bucharest) between June 14 and 16 for the 5th round of the Enduro World Championship; Buzau also played host for the event back in 2011. The world’s best 100 pilots will line up at the start, in the E1, E2, E3 and Junior classes, with the top entrants including Spaniard Ivan Cervantes – 5 times Enduro 2 World Champion; Frenchman Christophe Nambotin – Enduro 1 reigning champion; and Romanian Emanuel Gyenes, who bagged 5 national Enduro championship titles. The president of the Romanian Motorcycle Federation
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The first documentary series dedicated to the European network ‘Natura 2000’ at national level will be available for the first time online, as part of the national awareness campaign InfoNatura2000 undertaken by the National Centre for Sustainable Development in Bucharest (CNDD) in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMSC). ‘Natura 2000 in Romania’ has seven episodes lasting 52 minutes each. The first six episodes are presenting the biogeographical regions: pontic (euxinic), the steppe and the alpine regions (two parts), the last episode containing a synthesis. According to the CNDD recordings were made between 2011-2012 during 12 months
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The Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest has recently won the Euro Annie Award in the Fastest Growing Airport category, said the Aeroporturi National Company in Bucharest on Friday. According to the aforementioned source, it won the award in the category of the airports that registered between 5 and 10 million passengers last year. The Euro Annie Awards are granted by the Airline Network News and Analysis, a portal specialized in planning of air routes and exhaustive analyses made by British experts in civil aviation. The Henri Coanda Airport in Bucharest won the award in the above-mentioned category and thus
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Romania has a uniform position with the European states in respects of shale gas exploration, discussions on their exploitation going to be resumed after the outcome of the exploration stages, said Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian, in a press conference. “We talked with several colleagues from the European Union, with countries such as Poland, Belgium. All have a unified position in respects of the shale gas, which refers to the possibility of exploring, to know which is the core of the discussions. And in Romania the matter is discussed in the same way. The Government is willing to accept explorations. It
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The talks held by the leaders of the ruling Social Liberal Union (USL) at the Government’s offices Friday evening ended in no clear-cut decision, said sources having taken part in the meeting. “We’ve decided nothing”, the sources said. When asked whether tensions keep on in the ruling coalition, the sources answered ‘no’. Tensions in the ruling coalition went high after Liberal Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu accused the PSD of being unwilling to back the setting up of a special commission to inquire into the phone-tapping of judge Corneliu Birsan. Ponta afterwards declared there is ‘a serious problem’ in the USL
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The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in New York on May 17 will inaugurate the series of events under the general motto ‘La Blouse Roumaine,” by which it wants to promote the Romanian cultural identity in North America. The first event of this series is marked by the opening of the exhibition titled ‘La Blouse Roumaine’ displaying pieces of Romanian national dress of the collection belonging to Engineer Cristian Pascu, president of the Dorul Romanian Christian Society, which was founded in New York in 1903 under the name of the Carmen Sylva Romanian National Club. The exhibition will be housed by
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