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The Romanian authorities and the World Bank (WB), during the visit paid to Romania by WB President Jim Yong Kim, agreed on creating a knowledge hub in Bucharest, according to a release the Ministry of Public Finance (MFP) sent to Agerpres on Friday. The knowledge hub aims to make easier the transfer of expertise in the field of reforms and the best practices in Romania and other countries in the region. The two sides also discussed and agreed on setting up, as part of the Prime Minister’s Chancery, a unit meant to implement the public policies that should be a
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Most Romanians would not agree to giving up the national currency, leu, and associate the European Union (EU) with the right to free movement, reveals the barometer of opinion the “Truth about Romania”, conducted by INSCOP Research and remitted to AGERPRES. At six years after joining the European Union, 35 percent of Romanians believe that the country’s EU accession brought rather advantages, 33.9 percent do not see any advantages in the respective process, nor disadvantages, and 21.4 percent see rather more disadvantages. 9.6 percent of respondents chose I do not know/I do not comment option. As concerns the prospect to
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Romania is attending the Turin International Book Fair due on May 16-20, and La creativita Dove osano le idee (Creativity. Where Ideas Dare) is the theme of the 26th edition of the event, this year. It is for the fifth time in a row that the Venice-based Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research (IRCCU), financially supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute (IRC) organize Romania’s participation in Italy’s most important book show, where our country is to present a national stand called LIBROmania al Salone di Turin (BookRo- mania at Turin Book Fair). Located in the Fair’s 3rd ward P10-RO9,
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The “Seaside for all” program was launched on Monday, to be run until June 15, being the first edition when tourists can benefit of differentiated discounted rates between the center area of the coastline, where there are Constanta – Mamaia – Eforie resorts and the south coastline: Costinesti, Olimp, Neptun, Jupiter, Cap Aurora, Venus, Saturn, Mangalia, 2 Mai Vama Veche. According to representatives of the National Association of Travel Agencies in Romania (ANAT), in the resorts of Mamaia, Eforie and in Constanta, the tariffs for a six nights stay vary between 205 lei and 605 lei per person, starting from
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Over 80 percent of the Romanians believe that the current economic situation can be overcome by work only, with nearly half of them saying their main motivation for coming to work is the financial reward, while a third insists they work out of passion only, says a release sent by Rogalski Grigoriu Public Relations to AGERPRES. Most Romanians (62.3 percent) think the public sector employees work less than the private sector ones. The most important feature of an ‘ideal’ job is ‘the fair financial reward as compared to the value of the work done’, with 82.64 percent saying it. Social
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Romanian shot putter Anca Heltne won the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Grand Prix in Tokyo, on Sunday, succeeding a fantastic 18.43 m throw topping the German shot putter Nadine Kleinert – 18.35, world vice-champion in Berlin, in 2009. Another Romanian athlete Daniela Stanciu ranked the 4th in the high jump contest with 1.84 meters, when Russian Anna Chicherova equaled 1.95 meters, the best scores of the year. AGERPRES More in this category: 06-05 16:35   Discounted rates for tourists offered by “Seaside for all” program launch 05-05 16:18   Romanians among most confident Europeans about their country’s economic
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A new form of attracting tourists to the Romanian seaside this year will be the “weekend cross-promotion” whereby we pursue the mutual promotion of travel destinations, as we organize shows with DJs from Miami, Dubai, Hong Kong and Milan, informs a release of the Seaside – Danube Delta Association sent to Agerpres. “We are proud of having managed to once again organize a colorful Parade of Romanian Tourism. We officially opened the 2013 Seaside Season in the Mangalia Tourist Port, in the south of the littoral. This year, we, the Seaside – Danube Delta Association, plan to focus on promoting
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Agerpres correspondent Florin Stefan reports: Romania, Latvia and Lithuania are the three obvious candidates for exiting the excessive deficit procedure, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn declared in Brussels on the occasion of the presentation of the EC spring economic forecasts for 2013 – 2014. “Latvia and Romania have both reduced their deficits below 3% last year, in 2012, and they also stay below the reference value in the forecasts for 2013 and 2014. Therefore, both countries seem to be firmly on track for a sustainable correction of their excessive deficit, and thus for an exit from
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The representatives of Romania’s Government in Brussels will take steps for the product ‘mititei’ to be introduced in the category of traditional products together with the burgers and the Spanish sausages ‘chorizo’ so that the ‘mititei’ produced in keeping with the current recipe will no longer be forbidden. During the working group to be held on Thursday as part of the European Commission (EC) the representative of Romania’s Government will present the request made by the Romanian Meat Association for the recipe of the product ‘mititei’ to be included on the list of traditional recipes, informs a release issued by
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The presentation spot of the International Festival “George Enescu” will be aired on CNN during the period April 22 to May 19, the organizer of this festival, ARTEXIM, informs. The musical event this fall is the only international cultural event organized by Romania that benefits of such a visibility and is part of an extensive promotional campaign conducted in partnership with CNN, both on TV and online, since the end of 2012. The spot of “George Enescu” Festival was also presented on TV news Euronews site, in a first stage of the international promotional campaign, from February 15 to March
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