Monthly Archives April 2014

Citeva evenimente referitoare la viata sociala a comunitatii Romana Americana din Sudul Floridei au fost observate intr-o ultima scurta perioada de timp. Festivalul Renasterea a fost anuntat, un Consulat Itinerant a operat pentru prima data in Hollywood, Guvernul Roman a alocat fonduri pentru organizarea festivalului, Festivalul este anulat, un Sondaj pentru sprijinirea Consulatului Itinerant este deschis, Deputatului Parlamentar Dl. Mircea Lubanovici a venit in Florida sa sprijine functionarea periodica a Consulatului Itinerant. Si cu toate acestea, raspunsul comunitatii Romano-Americane este ca si neglijabil, neauzit. La apelurile si articolele de pe site-ul Ligii, www.romanianamericanleague.com, membrii comunitatii nu isi exprima parerea de
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As a continuing efforts to determinate the Romania Government to approve an Itinerant Consulate to operate on regular bases in Hollywood, Florida, Mr. John Banu, will travel next week to Washington. The Head of the Romanian Foreign Affairs, Mr. Titus Corlatean, will be at the Romanian Embassy to meet with members of the Romanian American Communities on April 29, 2014 During that meeting, Mr. Banu will have the opportunity to present the community desire and need for the presence of these consular legal services in their area. To document this request, members of the community are requested to participate to
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Broadband internet connections in Romania reached 3.8 million in 2013, up 7 per cent from the previous year, while 60 per cent of the individual landline internet connections allow data transfer speeds of at least 30 Mbps, according to the annual report released on Monday by the National Communications Administration and Regulatory Authority (ANCOM). Photo credit: (c) George CALIN / AGERPRES ARCHIVE Out of the total number of broadband internet connections, nearly 3.5 million belonged to individuals, up 8 per cent form 2012, while the number of broadband connections for legal entities levelled out at 340,000. On the other hand,
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The National Institute of Statistics (INS) has announced in a press release that it will offer free access to its TEMPO-online database to all users starting on April 15, 2014. Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES PHOTO ‘We are answering thus to the increasing number of requests coming from users such as the public institutions, representatives of the business environment, researchers and citizens. By taking this measure we ensure full and direct access to all our statistical information, while creating at the same time the conditions for the capitalisation of our entire statistical data archive. The detailed statistical information
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Intensifying the bilateral strategic partnership in the areas of policy, defence and security, as well as the progress recorded with the implementation of the bilateral agreement on the deployment to Romania of part of the US ballistic missile defence system were the main topics discussed by State Secretary for Strategic Affairs with Romania’s Foreign Ministry (MAE) Bogdan Aurescu and officials of the US Administration in Washington DC at the weekend. Foto credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES ARCHIVE MAE reports in a press release that at the White House, Aurescu met Special Assistant to the US President and Senior Director
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France’s Ambassador Philippe Gustin on Friday awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters medal to writer Gabriela Adamesteanu, whom he characterised as one of the most important voices of Romanian literature. Photo credit: (c) SORIN LUPSA / AGERPRES FOTO ‘For your entire work, for your contribution to the dissemination of arts and letters in Romania and worldwide, for the artistic creativity (…), in one word, for your talent and, also, mostly for this friendship that ties you to my country, on behalf of the Culture Minister, I hereby name you Knight of the Order of Arts and
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Over 250 airmen of the U.S. Air Force, with six F-16 fighter jets, together with around 200 Romanian military personnel, pilots and technical staff, with MiG-21 LanceR aircraft from the Air Base 71st, will participate, April 10 to 17, in the Romanian-American joint drill “Dacian Viper 2014,” which will take place at the Campia Turzii military airfield. Photo credit: (c) Lucian TUDOSE / AGERPRES ARCHIVE “The main goal of the drill is to increase the preparation level by training in a multinational environment, developing cooperation and improving interoperability between the armies of some NATO member countries, as well as practicing
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The Foreign Ministry State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu sustained a lecture on Tuesday, April 8 at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University of Washington, highlighting Romania’s profile of ‘close ally and strategic partner of the United States of America’, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) informed in a release to AGERPRES on Wednesday. Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES PHOTO According to this source, the lecture theme was ‘Romania’s strategic relevance in the current regional security context.’ ‘State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu’s intervention highlighted Romania’s profile as close ally and strategic partner of the
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