Monthly Archives December 2013

The Government will grant 50 million euros for the construction of Bucharest Multifunctional Arena, Victor Ponta said on Monday, at the signing of the protocol for building Bucharest Multifunctional Arena, concluded between Romania’s Government and the Capital City Hall. ‘The Government will directly financially endorse the construction of a multifunctional hall that Bucharest and Romania need. We do not have such a thing in Romania, we cannot organise a great national or international competition and I do not believe there still are European capitals that do not have such a hall. (…) I want us to support the General City
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The varnishing on Monday morning of an exhibition of documentary photography and of an art exhibition, as well as the screening of the ?Remember December 1989′ documentary film were the first from a series of events to take place until December 21 in Timisoara (western Romania), organised by the association of revolutionaries and by the local authorities, as a mean to celebrate the anti-communist Revolution of 1989. Among the events prepared for this occasion, there will be various exhibitions, book launches, pilgrimages, debates, religious services and wreath-laying ceremonies, all in the memory of the martyrs of the Revolution, who sacrificed
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A team of Italians, the best worldwide in LED constructions, in the centre of Sibiu (central Romania), mounted the first tunnel with over 55,000 LEDs of Romania, 40-metre long, which created a fairy-tale like landscape for hundreds of Sibiu locals and tourists, who came with photo and video cameras to capture the moment. For three evenings, the fairy-tale like tunnel in the centre of Sibiu, on the pedestrian boulevard of the city, was watched hundreds of onlookers, eager to get the feeling of the great holidays of Asia or Europe. ‘As it is a project, it only lasts three days.
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On the occasion of his 95th anniversary, maestro Radu Beligan (75 years of acting career), was celebrated in the Timpului Square downtown the Romanian capital city, through the unveiling of a monument representing the symbol of the theatre – Thalia’s Gong – numerous friends and tens of admirers attending the event. Bucharest Mayor, Sorin Oprescu, told the maestro that he was ‘a national treasure’ and wished him to stay in good shape and also many more anniversaries to come. ‘Happy Birthday!, maestro, may God give you strength! Your are a national treasure, we respect and we love you, maestro. Let
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The postponement of the accession to the Schengen Area triggers losses both for Romania and for the French, the Germans and the Dutch, the representatives of the states conducting an economic activity in our country, Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean said in an interview to France Inter radio station. ‘The freedom of movement, which is a EU fundamental value, exists. It started to exist for us after January 1, 2007. We quite often mix two entirely different things. The illegal migration coming from the outside of the EU is completely different from the freedom of movement inside the EU. We
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Romania will be displaying in the Expo Milano 2015 universal exposition, May 1 – October 31, 2015, which theme is ‘Feeding the planet. Energy for life,’ Romania’s Foreign Ministry (MAE) reports in a press release. A participation contract was signed on Friday in Milan by Romania’s General Commissioner Georgian Ghervasie and Expo 2015 International Affairs Director Stefano Gatti, in the presence of a large Romanian and Italian public that included diplomatic corps and consular staff accredited in Italy. ‘This is an exposition that has been held every five years since 1851 where each country brings in a uniform country concept,’
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The Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Romania will benefit from several advantages in 2014, among which is the possibility for them to take out low-interest loans, as a result of a 20-million-Swiss franc grant received from the Government of Switzerland, SME and Tourism Minister Maria Grapini said, in Timisoara. ‘The Romanian Government has managed to sign an agreement with the Swiss Government, under which our country will receive 20 million francs that will enter the SME funding system. Adding to this amount will be an equivalent sum in lei from the Romanian Government. Each SME will be allowed to
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The Romanians based in Portugal make up a well-integrated community, they work in the sectors that have a labour shortage and make a positive contribution to the country’s economy, Portuguese ambassador Joao-Bernardo Weinstein told AGERPRES. ‘Around 40,000 Romanians live in Portugal. It is a well-integrated community, in the labour market included, because Romanians, in general, very easily learn Portuguese, a neo-Latin language, the same as Romanian. The Romanian community in Portugal contributes to the Portuguese state’s welfare very much. Most Romanians work in areas that I would call ?modest’, since they do not require special skills: civil engineering, agriculture, trade.
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Russian Ambassador Oleg Malgynov declared at a book launch at the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that history can work both to the benefit, but also against bilateral relations, and voiced hopes that Bucharest and Moscow will address historic issues in such manner as to help improve their relations. The Russian diplomat attended the launch of the volume titled “Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. 1941 — 1956 documents” compiling documents from Russia’s Federal and Military Archives in an effort coordinated by historian Vitalie Varatic. Malgynov remarked in this context that the historical aspects are tackled
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