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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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The troops of the Romanian 20th Infantry Battalion dubbed the Black Scorpions took part in fresh training drills at Balta Verde Shooting Range near Craiova (246 km south-west of the capital), alongside the troops of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe (MARFOREUR) as part of the multinational exercise Black Sea Rotational Force 2013 (BSRF-13). The joint Romanian-U.S. drills were carried out with the reporters attending, they were of the ‘platoon on offensive’-type and entailed both setting the tactical details of the operation and the operation proper. At the end of the exercise, both the Romanian and American troops said they
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The National State Assets Management Authority (AAAS) plans to put up for sale this year minority stakes in 81 companies and counts on revenues worth RON 240-250 million, given that the first four companies that were successfully sold funneled approximately RON 400,000 to the budget. (1 euro trades for RON 4.33) 2According to AAAS deputy president Stan Popa, 31 companies with state-owned minority interests were put up for sale so far, of which five were sold. Popa added that the first four companies collected some RON 400,000 and that the next companies will be also weighed up for estimates. The
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Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church Daniel and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin signed a cooperation protocol on promoting the Romanian village. The aims of the protocol are: informing people living in rural areas of the European funds for the development of agriculture and the Romanian village by means of the National Programme of Rural Development (PNDR), by means of the support given to the campaign ‘PNDR Comes to Your Village,’ as well as by means of other programmes; promoting the traditional values of the rural community with a view to preserving and developing the spiritual, cultural,
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