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Iohannis: Prime Minister's actions generate grave blockages/Parliament sole authority over Executive
President Klaus Iohannis stated on Friday that the "insistence with which Prime Minister Viorica Dancila refuses to request Parliament's approval for a new Government is generating the grave blockage the Romanian state's institutions are in." Prime Minister Viorica Dancila sent, on Friday, to President Klaus Iohannis new proposals for interim ministers.
Senate head Melescanu emphasizes importance of increasing defence and deterrence capacity in Black Sea region
The Senate's chairman, Teodor Melescanu, pleaded, while attending on Friday the 4th edition of the Bucharest Security Conference, for increasing the defence and deterrence capacity in the Black Sea region. "The defence and deterrence policy, the capacity to adapt to the changes in the world represents a fantastic thing.
Iohannis:Policy-makers failed to refrain from issuing laws which are more damaging than helpful in education
President Klaus Iohannis stated on Friday that "a wrong way to legislate" of policy-makers in the education area has effects, especially in higher education. "Here, in Sibiu, around the university, a functional ecosystem was created, which includes actors of the economic milieu, the civil society and the administration.
BusinessMin Oprea: Romanian entrepreneurs should get our of their comfort zone, which is EU
An active presence and increasingly clear of the Romanian companies on the market in Vietnam is necessary and the Romanian entrepreneurs should get out of their comfort zone and stop doing business in the European Union only, Minister of Business Enviroinment, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan-Radu Oprea stated on Friday at the Romania-Vietnam Business Forum organised in Bucharest.
Household monthly income in Romania averages out at 4,764 lei in Q2 2019; expenses, 85pct of revenues
Total household monthly income in Romania in Q2 2019 averaged out at 4,764 lei, on total average expenses of 4,049 lei monthly per household, or 85pct of total income, show the data with the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Friday. Total monthly average income was 4,764 lei per household and 1,838 lei per person in Q2 2019.
PM Dancila says to fight in opposition to win presidential election, recapture power, if no-confidence vote succeeds
Prime Minister and national leader of the majority Social Democratic Party (PSD) Viorica Dancila said on Thursday evening that if the no-confidence vote against her cabinet is successful in Parliament, she will fight even more, in the opposition, to win the presidential election and return PSD to power. "It is an unrealistic scenario and I tell you why.
Romanian MEPs on odds of Romania's future European Commissioner to keep Transport portfolio
Although they see the rejection of Romania's Commissioner-designate Rovana Plumb by EP's Legal Affairs Committee for conflict of interest as a warning, the Social Democrat MEPs are satisfied that Romania cannot lose the Transport portfolio in the future European Commission; however, their Liberal and USR-PLUS colleagues have a different view, as they consider the portfolio could be lost if Roma
EIB vicepresident announces tripling of support for Romanian economy up to 1.38 billion euro
Vicepresident of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Andrew McDowell, stated on Thursday, in Bucharest, that the European Investment Bank Group is tripling its support for Romanian companies, from 500 million euro up to 1.38 billion euro.
Bulgaria - The Largest Producer of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants and Spices in the EU
For the ninth consecutive year, Bulgaria ranks first among EU countries in the production of herbs and spices. According to Eurostat, in 2018, just over 71,000 tonnes of aromatic and medicinal plants and spices were grown in the country.
Lord mayor of Leipzig hopeful new cultural bridges will be created between Romania and Germany
The German reunification couldn't have been possible without the men and women who bravely took to the streets of Leipzig back in 1989, Burkhard Jung, Lord mayor of this German city located in the area of former East Germany, told the "Leipzig Tourist City" event organized on Thursday in Bucharest by the German Embassy under the banner of the "Leipzig Cultural Days in Bucharest" on the 30th ann
Speaker Ciolacu: We need to develope a culture of security to respond, first of all, to unconventional aggressions - cyber media
Security is a current priority of the institutions, local communities and citizens and we need to develop a culture of security in order to respond, first of all, to such unconventional aggressions as cyber media, but also to the economic ones, Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Marcel Ciolacu stated on Thursday. "We have a major deficit in terms of security culture in Romania.
European Commission reimburses 104 million euros to Romania under Technical Assistance Operational Programme
The European Commission reimbursed 104 million euros to Romania out of the total 121 million euros that were supposed to be reimbursed under the Technical Assistance Operational Programme (TAOP) 2014-2020, according to data released by the Ministry of European Funds (MFE).
President Iohannis: There is a danger of intolerant discourse being activated to undermine European solidarity
President Klaus Iohannis sent a message on Thursday to a meeting of the Ecumenical Prayer Group in Parliament of Romania in which he underlines the Romanians' attachment to the European Union, warning that there is a danger of intolerant speech being activating to undermine the European Union.
Hungary’s EU Humiliation Leads to Compromise, Orban-Style
Certainly, everyone expected him to get a grilling by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). But the Hungarian administration had been assiduous in preparing him for the hearing and Trocsanyi was an avid student.
So optimism was in the air as the European Parliament started vetting candidates to run the EU's executive arm.
Parliament: Censure motion to be read on Thursday in joint plenary meeting
The Senate and the Deputies' Chamber are convening on Thursday morning in a joint meeting for the reading of the censure motion, which will be debated and voted next week, on 10 October.