All News on Social Issues in Romania

Kelemen Hunor: Romania must accept it is multinational state

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 08:29

The leader of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor, running for president in the early November elections told a public debate in this central-western Romanian city late on Thursday that Romanians must accept their country is a multinational state and that trust is a pre-condition to a good relation between the ethnic groups.

Dutch spouses educate Roma people for two decades

Published by Agerpres on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 10:42

A Dutch moved to Romania after the fall of communism in 1989, and he has been working ever since to make a proper neighbourhood of Cluj-Napoca (northwest of Bucharest) out of the ghetto of Pata Rat (a name not related to the rodent, though).

State Secretary Arafat: Romania has taken major healthcare leap

Published by Agerpres on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 09:41

Romania has taken a major leap in healthcare in the last 25 years, having turned from a system based on the stethoscope and the blood pressure meter to a system allowing extremely complex interventions, State Secretary at the Ministry of Administration and the Interior, Raed Arafat told a meeting of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday.

Romanians Still Beating Children, UN Says

Published by Balkan Insight on Thu, 10/02/2014 - 09:52

More than 12,000 cases of abuse, neglect and child exploitation are officially recorded each year in Romania, but these represent only some of the total number of cases of violence against children, according to a report by the UN's children organisation UNICEF.

Government passes budget amendment

Published by Agerpres on Tue, 09/30/2014 - 15:15

The Government of Romania approved in its Tuesday meeting the emergency ordinance projects on the amendment of the state budget and of the social insurance budget, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced after the meeting.

According to him, it was the first time in years that budget revenues were above the estimates.

...

State Secretary Aurescu urges Moldovan diplomats to better relay to public benefits of European closeness

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 16:47

State Secretary for Strategic Affairs with Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), Bogdan Aurescu, urged the participants in the training program in diplomacy and international affairs of diplomats and public officials of the Republic of Moldova, to better communication towards the public opinion of the direct benefits brought by a closeness to Europe.

Over half of all households in poverty or at risk thereof

Published by Kathimerini on Thu, 09/25/2014 - 22:23

 Shocking report shows 6.3 million people in Greece affected

Three in every five Greeks, or some 6.3 million people, were living in poverty or under the threat of poverty in 2013 due to material deprivation and unemployment, a report by Parliament’s State Budget Office showed on Thursday.

45% of Bulgarian Pensioners Still Working – Eurostat

Published by Novinite on Wed, 09/24/2014 - 12:13

Some 45% of Bulgarian pensioners continue to work, the European Union's statistics office Eurostat has claimed.

In 2012, the year for which latest EU labor market statistics were available, about 15% of all employed Bulgarian pensioners continued working mainly for financial reasons, while less than 10% did so mainly for non-financial reasons such as job satisfaction.

Serbia has 160 inapplicable strategies - minister

Published by B92 on Thu, 09/11/2014 - 16:58

Serbia has 160 inapplicable strategies - minister

BELGRADE -- Serbia has 160 strategies that remain in force despite being mutually non-compliant and impossible to implement, Kori Udovički said on Thursday.

Pages