Monthly Archives December 2013

The National Liberal Party (PNL) lawmakers will not vote the amnesty law and demand that it be removed from the agenda, said PNL’s National Chairman Crin Antonescu after the PNL’s National Political Bureau meeting. “As to the amendments to the Criminal Code, we will vote against those amendments, en bloc, to avoid any discussion. At the same time, we demand that the Government and the Ministry of Justice prepare, in full transparency, by consulting all those who are qualified for that, a draft amendment to solve the problems that really exist in the current Criminal Code and which are solutions
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A family of Arad County (western Romania) established a refinery, West Petrol Rafinare, which represents the first petroleum refinery that has come into view in Romania after 1989, economica.net informs. The refinery has been operating for a month, in Apateu Commune, Arad County, and is self-managed, with a capacity of 250 tonnes per day. Petrom has already become a customer of the business. The couple, Stelian and Marinela Tulcan, who started the entire business, has a number of 40 employees and they have recently signed a contract with Oil Terminal Constanta, worth approximately 2 million euros for the supply of
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Greek Ambassador to Bucharest, Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis stated, at the launch of the bilingual volume ‘The Greek Bucharest’ by Georgeta Filitti, that the relation between the two states can be defined in terms of continuity, while ?the Greeks never forgot how much hospitality Romanians showed to them’. The seven chapters of the historical synthesis ‘The Greek Bucharest’ are ‘commented’ also by a rich number of illustrations: about 360 illustrations, selected from the most diverse fields — buildings, churches, manuscripts, editions in Greek and Romania, facsimiles, charters, papers, pictures showing the life of the Greek community in Bucharest over time. The authors
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Romanian Culture Minister Daniel Barbu has tendered resignation, his personal advisor Emil Pantelimon told AGERPRES. He explained Barbu ‘tendered resignation early in the day’. ‘Minister Barbu did not resign yesterday (Wednesday — editor’s note) so as not to affect the validity of the acts approved in the Government’s meeting held this week, which he signed’, the culture minister’s personal advisor stressed. Barbu, during a visit to southern Craiova on Sunday, had drawn a comparison between funding the National Programme for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control and funding the cultural festivals. ‘In my opinion, we are not in South Africa. There are
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The Armenian National News Agency ARMENPRESS has become an observer to the Association of the Balkan News Agencies – South-East Europe (ABNA-SE) during the body’s meeting that ended Wednesday in the medieval Sibiu city (272 km north-west of Bucharest). ARMENPRESS Managing Director Aram Ananyan thanked AGERPRES and ABNA-SE President Alexandru Giboi, the AGERPRES National News Agency Managing Director for the rendered support as well as the organizers of the first meeting of the Association hosted by Romania, in Sibiu, over Dec. 8-11. AGERPRES, which is for the first time holding the ABNA-SE presidency closed a cooperation and information exchange agreement
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The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)’s Director George Maior on Tuesday told the plenum of the joint chambers of Parliament, that the SRI has, according to specialists, a professional credibility that places it among the top four-five places in the world. “We are maintaining a strategic direction based on cooperation with important services, such as those in the UK, the U.S., Germany or France, but I say again, the geographical area or the affiliation of a state does not matter if that piece of information can give us something important for Romania’s national security. That is why we have opened such
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AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta and U.S. President Barack Obama conversed for 15 minutes in Johannesburg, at the end of the speech the White House leader gave at the memorial service held in honor of former South-African President Nelson Mandela, official sources told AGERPRES. The sources explained that at the end of his address, Barack Obama headed for the FNB stadium tribune where the high officials were seated, to greet them. As Obama was then about to leave the tribune, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair introduced the Romanian Prime Minister to him, the cited
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Romania’s exports hit a record level of 4.7 billion euros in October 2013, up by almost 10 percent compared with the same month of last year in values expressed in lei, and by 5.5 percent compared with September 2013, while Romanian exports advanced 8.5 percent January through October 2013 compared with the same period of the previous year, in values expressed in lei. According to provisional estimates of the National Institute of Statistics (INS), FOB exports totalled 20.944 billion lei (4.701 billion euros) in October 2013, while CIF imports exceeded 23.802 billion lei (5.345 billion euros). Compared with October 2012,
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Titus Corlatean met Craig Kennedy, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The two men had an exchange of opinions on the topical subjects of the European and regional agenda, with emphasis on the Black Sea region and the developments in the EU eastern neighbourhood. According to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the representative of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) presented the main project GMF considered for the time to come and they discussed the possibility of a cooperation with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in organizing some events of common
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