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National Liberal Party (PNL) resigning First Deputy Chairman Klaus Iohannis, candidate to the party’s chairmanship, on Saturday said that Crin Antonescu’s withdrawal from the presidential elections race represented “the gesture of a great politician.” Photo credit (c): Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES STREAM “Today I have seen the gesture of a great politician: Crin Antonescu. I witnessed a unique gesture over the past 24 years, made by a politician with a very strong position, very well placed, who gave up all these in order to strengthen the party. Through his decision, Crin Antonescu proved that he put the interest of the
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Romanian actor Florin Piersic on Sunday, June 1, will be awarded the Excellency Prize, at the Romanian Comedy Gala, within the 12th edition of the Romanian Comedy Festival, to take place starting at 19,00 hours, at Radu Beligan Hall of the Comedy Theatre. Photo credit (c): Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE According to an organisers’ release remitted to Agerpres, the awards of the 12th edition of the Romanian Comedy Festival and the distinctions of the 9th edition of the Romanian Comedy Competition will also be granted during the Gala. Because the event will take place on Childrens’ Day, the children
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President Traian Basescu, at the Cotroceni Palace, on Saturday, will have a meeting with His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales. Photo credit (c): Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES ARCHIVE According to a Presidential Administration release remitted to Agerpres, Basescu will receive Prince Charles in the Blue Hall at the Cotroceni Palace, starting 13:40, Romania’s time. Prince Charles has been on a visit to Romania since Tuesday and during his stay in our country he had meetings with the villagers of Valea Zalanului, a remote village of Covasna County, where he owns a manor he restored and where he has been
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Romanian cyclist Eduard Grosu continues his excellent season; he won the first stage of the 2014 Tour of Estonia on Friday, which obviously entitles him to wear the current leader’s yellow jersey. His performance came just months after signing his first professional contract with the Italian-Japanese team. Photo credit: (c) Alex TUDOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE Tour of Estonia’s first stage went from Tallinn, the country’s capital, to Tartu, where Grosu won the sprint before stopping the chronometer at 4 hours 21’01’, inches ahead Latvian Emils Liepins (Rietumu — Delfin Team) and German Michael Schweizer (Baku Cycling Project), which were registered
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Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Director George Maior presented the biography “Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill” by Michael Shelden on Friday, at RAO Publishing House’s stand at the Bookfest International Book Show. Photo credit (c) ALEX MICSIK / AGERPRES PHOTO The head of SRI wrote the foreword of this book; in his speech at the fair, he asserted that Churchill was an outstanding personality of world politics, best fitting into the template of a statesman who reaches beyond the condition of a mere politician and understands the necessity of protecting his fellow citizens, thus getting above his historical status.
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In a recent interview to Agerpres, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland voices satisfaction over the fact that Romania has not taken the same route in the European elections as France and other countries did, setting a good example and showing that there is a culture in Romania of not going with the flow. Jagland argues that the explanation for this is the fact that Romania already experimented extreme political behaviour and does not want to repeat the experience. He also says there is more tolerance in this part of Europe for ethnic and religious diversity.
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Deputies’ Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea, when exiting the polling station, said he voted for a prosperous, powerful Romania in Europe, respected both in Brussels and in Strasbourg. Photo credit (c) PAULA NEAMTU / AGERPRES PHOTO ‘I voted for a powerful Romania in Europe, respected both in Brussels and in Strasbourg, a prosperous Romania, with jobs, with the confidence that we can build the country we live in. I voted for some people whom I trust they have fought and continue to fight for us, regardless of the qualities we have, the preparation we have, the ethnicity we have, the religion
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Prime Minister Victor Ponta in Giurgiu (southern Romania) on Wednesday said that Romania’s adopting the euro currency in 2019 was an ambitious, but feasible objective, showing that the Romanian economy should be capable to face the competition in the Eurozone, meaning the fulfillment of all convergence criteria. Photo credit: (c) LIVIU SOVA / AGERPRES FOTO ‘Compared with last year, we fulfilled all nominal, not real, convergence criteria. I am very aware of this thing, beyond the economic growth, we have the inflation reduction, we have the public debt, therefore we fulfill the nominal convergence criteria, but we still haven’t fulfilled
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Romania will be the first country to ratify the Association Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova, Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu this Wednesday assured President of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Corman, while on a visit to Chisinau, AGERPRES special correspondent Dana Piciu reports. Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES PHOTO “Moldova can rely on Romania’s full support for everything that related to its European path. I want to salute the great success of the visa system liberalization that benefits numerous Moldovan citizens and particularly young people, who naturally have a higher mobility. There will of course
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The exhibition “Radu Balescu – The Man and the Scientist” was opened on Tuesday at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where the memory of the Romanian-born Belgian scientist was evoked by members of the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Romanian Academy as well as former close co-workers. Photograph taken at the “Radu Balescu — The Man and the Scientist” exhibition held in Bucharest in September 2012 Photo credit: (c) Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE AGERPRES correspondent Florin Stefan reports that among those that spoke of Radu Balescu as a scientist and a man were Paul Vandenplas, a member
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