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2013 has been a very good year in government, a thing also proved by the figures showing Romania has recorded one of the biggest growths in the European Union, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in the opening of the Government’s meeting, adding ‘I want us to even better govern in 2014’. ‘I want to thank you all. 2013 has been a very good year. Not even the propaganda succeeds in spoiling these things. We have one of the biggest growths in the EU. It is not necessarily because we wished it, but with the support of (Minister-delegate for Budget Liviu)
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During its weekly meeting, the Romanian Government has passed a Decision for creating the Aviation Safety Technical Committee, a structure without legal personality, providing the consultative framework for the Ministry of Transportation to analyse the issues of civil aviation, informs the Government’s Press Office. The Decision of creating the Aviation Safety Technical Committee also gives the Ministry of Transportation a framework for coordinating the airport operators, air transport companies and entities that use civil aviation safety standards. The creation of this structure does not involve extra spending from the general budget of the Ministry, the Government’s Press Office stated.AGERPRES
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‘Child’s Pose’ by Calin Netzer, the film that brought Romania the first Golden Bear award for a feature film and the feature film debut of director Iuliana Rugina, ‘Love Building,’ were ranked on the first two places of the Romanian box office in 2013, according to the data Agerpres collected from film distributors. ‘Child’s Pose’ ranking on the top position of the domestic box office in 2013 was no surprise, as the film with 1,248,126 lei collections and 117,809 viewers became the Romanian motion picture with the highest audience success over the past decade. Distributed by Parada Film, ‘Child’s Pose’
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Almost 2 million Romanians named after Saint John the Baptist – 1,420,774 men and 531,197 women – celebrate their name day on Tuesday. According to the statistics of the Directorate for Persons Record and Databases Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), 371,486 Romanian women are named Ioana, other 141,000 have the given name Ionela, 11,290 are named Nela, and 6,726, Ionelia. Among the men celebrating their name day on Saint John the Baptist’s Day, 411,149 men are named Ion, 514,865, Ioan, and more than 320,000, Ionut. There are also 145,000 Romanians named Ionel, and more than 26,000 Nelu
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More than 45,000 ethnic Ukrainians living in Maramures, northern Romania as well as some 100 Republic of Moldova tourists have come to the resorts of Cavnic and Suior to celebrate the old-rite Christmas Monday evening. Locals of eight villages, most of them located in the mountainous areas of Maramures county, preserve the traditions and customs specific of this celebration and Fast is closely observed by most Ukrainians. ‘Christmas is waited for with fast, prayers and traditions remembering The Saviour’s Birth. The rural world closely observes the Fast and meat meals are eaten by some families as late as on Christmas
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The Government will grant 50 million euros for the construction of Bucharest Multifunctional Arena, Victor Ponta said on Monday, at the signing of the protocol for building Bucharest Multifunctional Arena, concluded between Romania’s Government and the Capital City Hall. ‘The Government will directly financially endorse the construction of a multifunctional hall that Bucharest and Romania need. We do not have such a thing in Romania, we cannot organise a great national or international competition and I do not believe there still are European capitals that do not have such a hall. (…) I want us to support the General City
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The varnishing on Monday morning of an exhibition of documentary photography and of an art exhibition, as well as the screening of the ?Remember December 1989′ documentary film were the first from a series of events to take place until December 21 in Timisoara (western Romania), organised by the association of revolutionaries and by the local authorities, as a mean to celebrate the anti-communist Revolution of 1989. Among the events prepared for this occasion, there will be various exhibitions, book launches, pilgrimages, debates, religious services and wreath-laying ceremonies, all in the memory of the martyrs of the Revolution, who sacrificed
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A team of Italians, the best worldwide in LED constructions, in the centre of Sibiu (central Romania), mounted the first tunnel with over 55,000 LEDs of Romania, 40-metre long, which created a fairy-tale like landscape for hundreds of Sibiu locals and tourists, who came with photo and video cameras to capture the moment. For three evenings, the fairy-tale like tunnel in the centre of Sibiu, on the pedestrian boulevard of the city, was watched hundreds of onlookers, eager to get the feeling of the great holidays of Asia or Europe. ‘As it is a project, it only lasts three days.
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On the occasion of his 95th anniversary, maestro Radu Beligan (75 years of acting career), was celebrated in the Timpului Square downtown the Romanian capital city, through the unveiling of a monument representing the symbol of the theatre – Thalia’s Gong – numerous friends and tens of admirers attending the event. Bucharest Mayor, Sorin Oprescu, told the maestro that he was ‘a national treasure’ and wished him to stay in good shape and also many more anniversaries to come. ‘Happy Birthday!, maestro, may God give you strength! Your are a national treasure, we respect and we love you, maestro. Let
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The postponement of the accession to the Schengen Area triggers losses both for Romania and for the French, the Germans and the Dutch, the representatives of the states conducting an economic activity in our country, Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean said in an interview to France Inter radio station. ‘The freedom of movement, which is a EU fundamental value, exists. It started to exist for us after January 1, 2007. We quite often mix two entirely different things. The illegal migration coming from the outside of the EU is completely different from the freedom of movement inside the EU. We
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