Maria Voican

The new Pension Law doesn't provide for any change of Pillar II (mandatory private pension fund, ed. n.), but 0.5 pct of the fee charged by companies in this sector will be directed to the National Pension Office, Minister of Labor and Social Justice Lia Olguta Vasilescu told a press conference on Friday.

The deputy chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL, opposition) Raluca Turcan says that the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (main ruling PSD) sent Olguta Vasilescu, the Minister of Labor, to announce the Pension law prior to diaspora's meeting (August 10, ed. n), just like Nicolae Ceausescu did in 1989.

Israel is often called the "start-up nation" because of its state-of-the-art revolutionary technologies, said Israel's ambassador to Romania Tamar Samash, in northeastern Iasi, referring to the fact that this country without water resources has become a world leader in water recycling and re-use.

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) is not jubilant and does not pride itself for having won the war, it's just a battle victory, as inflation is starting to go down, but inflationary pressures persist, governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR) Mugur Isarescu said on Wednesday at the presentation of the Report on Inflation.

The Save Romania Union (USR) claims that the National Integrity Agency has not completed the investigation into the wealth of the Chamber of Deputies' Speaker, Liviu Dragnea, PSD leader, although USR filed a notification in this regard a year ago.

The president's spokeswoman, Madalina Dobrovolschi, said, on Tuesday, that the Government's cut to the Presidential Administration's budget is of a nature to render impossible the hosting of the Three Seas Initiative Summit.

President Klaus Iohannis cautioned on Monday that research in Romania is likely to regress to the level of the '90s because of the government's plans to adopt the Ordinance on R&D and Innovation, released on the website of the Ministry in charge.

The Cinemascop Film Festival closed Sunday night, after five days of film screening and AGERPRES photo exhibition mounting admired by hundreds of people in the Eforie Sud Black Sea resort's summer garden.

"The Greater Union - Romania, 100 years on" produced by the AGERPRES National News Agency was screened on Thursday, in the garden of the Romanian Literature National Museum, in the opening of the second edition of the project "Film and Literature."

The film was presented by AGERPRES Director General Alexandru Giboi and one of the directors, Marilena Stanescu.

More than 30 hermitages and worship places dug in stone hundreds of years ago were unearthed in the southeastern County of Buzau, a release of the 100Tracks cartography team sent to AGERPRES on Thursday informs.