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Romania will be displaying in the Expo Milano 2015 universal exposition, May 1 – October 31, 2015, which theme is ‘Feeding the planet. Energy for life,’ Romania’s Foreign Ministry (MAE) reports in a press release. A participation contract was signed on Friday in Milan by Romania’s General Commissioner Georgian Ghervasie and Expo 2015 International Affairs Director Stefano Gatti, in the presence of a large Romanian and Italian public that included diplomatic corps and consular staff accredited in Italy. ‘This is an exposition that has been held every five years since 1851 where each country brings in a uniform country concept,’
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The Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Romania will benefit from several advantages in 2014, among which is the possibility for them to take out low-interest loans, as a result of a 20-million-Swiss franc grant received from the Government of Switzerland, SME and Tourism Minister Maria Grapini said, in Timisoara. ‘The Romanian Government has managed to sign an agreement with the Swiss Government, under which our country will receive 20 million francs that will enter the SME funding system. Adding to this amount will be an equivalent sum in lei from the Romanian Government. Each SME will be allowed to
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The Romanians based in Portugal make up a well-integrated community, they work in the sectors that have a labour shortage and make a positive contribution to the country’s economy, Portuguese ambassador Joao-Bernardo Weinstein told AGERPRES. ‘Around 40,000 Romanians live in Portugal. It is a well-integrated community, in the labour market included, because Romanians, in general, very easily learn Portuguese, a neo-Latin language, the same as Romanian. The Romanian community in Portugal contributes to the Portuguese state’s welfare very much. Most Romanians work in areas that I would call ?modest’, since they do not require special skills: civil engineering, agriculture, trade.
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Russian Ambassador Oleg Malgynov declared at a book launch at the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that history can work both to the benefit, but also against bilateral relations, and voiced hopes that Bucharest and Moscow will address historic issues in such manner as to help improve their relations. The Russian diplomat attended the launch of the volume titled “Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. 1941 — 1956 documents” compiling documents from Russia’s Federal and Military Archives in an effort coordinated by historian Vitalie Varatic. Malgynov remarked in this context that the historical aspects are tackled
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The National Liberal Party (PNL) lawmakers will not vote the amnesty law and demand that it be removed from the agenda, said PNL’s National Chairman Crin Antonescu after the PNL’s National Political Bureau meeting. “As to the amendments to the Criminal Code, we will vote against those amendments, en bloc, to avoid any discussion. At the same time, we demand that the Government and the Ministry of Justice prepare, in full transparency, by consulting all those who are qualified for that, a draft amendment to solve the problems that really exist in the current Criminal Code and which are solutions
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A family of Arad County (western Romania) established a refinery, West Petrol Rafinare, which represents the first petroleum refinery that has come into view in Romania after 1989, economica.net informs. The refinery has been operating for a month, in Apateu Commune, Arad County, and is self-managed, with a capacity of 250 tonnes per day. Petrom has already become a customer of the business. The couple, Stelian and Marinela Tulcan, who started the entire business, has a number of 40 employees and they have recently signed a contract with Oil Terminal Constanta, worth approximately 2 million euros for the supply of
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Greek Ambassador to Bucharest, Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis stated, at the launch of the bilingual volume ‘The Greek Bucharest’ by Georgeta Filitti, that the relation between the two states can be defined in terms of continuity, while ?the Greeks never forgot how much hospitality Romanians showed to them’. The seven chapters of the historical synthesis ‘The Greek Bucharest’ are ‘commented’ also by a rich number of illustrations: about 360 illustrations, selected from the most diverse fields — buildings, churches, manuscripts, editions in Greek and Romania, facsimiles, charters, papers, pictures showing the life of the Greek community in Bucharest over time. The authors
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Romanian Culture Minister Daniel Barbu has tendered resignation, his personal advisor Emil Pantelimon told AGERPRES. He explained Barbu ‘tendered resignation early in the day’. ‘Minister Barbu did not resign yesterday (Wednesday — editor’s note) so as not to affect the validity of the acts approved in the Government’s meeting held this week, which he signed’, the culture minister’s personal advisor stressed. Barbu, during a visit to southern Craiova on Sunday, had drawn a comparison between funding the National Programme for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control and funding the cultural festivals. ‘In my opinion, we are not in South Africa. There are
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The Armenian National News Agency ARMENPRESS has become an observer to the Association of the Balkan News Agencies – South-East Europe (ABNA-SE) during the body’s meeting that ended Wednesday in the medieval Sibiu city (272 km north-west of Bucharest). ARMENPRESS Managing Director Aram Ananyan thanked AGERPRES and ABNA-SE President Alexandru Giboi, the AGERPRES National News Agency Managing Director for the rendered support as well as the organizers of the first meeting of the Association hosted by Romania, in Sibiu, over Dec. 8-11. AGERPRES, which is for the first time holding the ABNA-SE presidency closed a cooperation and information exchange agreement
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The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)’s Director George Maior on Tuesday told the plenum of the joint chambers of Parliament, that the SRI has, according to specialists, a professional credibility that places it among the top four-five places in the world. “We are maintaining a strategic direction based on cooperation with important services, such as those in the UK, the U.S., Germany or France, but I say again, the geographical area or the affiliation of a state does not matter if that piece of information can give us something important for Romania’s national security. That is why we have opened such
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