September 26, 2018 UPDATE
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Newsroom, 26.09.2018, 19:56
VISIT Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila’s working visit to Brussels
has ended. Social Democrats with the European Parliament criticized before
the Romanian official the referendum for family, which bans same-sex marriages
adding that such ideas don’t belong in the European Socialist family. Socialist
MEPs have called for clarity in a series of issues, including major corruption
cases and the referendum for family as Romania is going to take over the EU
rotating presidency next year. During her visit to Brussels, the Romanian
official held talks with Franziska Maria Keller and Philippe Lamberts,
co-presidents of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament whom she
briefed upon the domestic political situation and the reforms initiated by the
government. On Tuesday, Viorica Dancila held talks with Udo Bullman, president
of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the
European Parliament and with the president of the Group of European People’s
Party, Manfred Weber. The Prime Minister presented the reforms initiated by
the government in key domains for Romania pointing out they are the outcome of
a transparent inter-institutional cooperation with the consultation of the European
partners.
POLL
Romania has not been
competitive in terms of workforce availability for the first time since 2015
says a poll over the business environment published on Wednesday by the Foreign
Investors Council. On the other hand investors have noticed an improved fiscal regime
and that companies have succeeded in adjusting to the changes made in 2017. No
major fiscal changes have been announced for this year. The Council has
maintained a past opinion that the lack of investment and predictability is
eating away at the competitiveness and growth potential of the Romanian
economy. The poll has been conducted every semester.
MOTION The Chamber of
Deputies on Wednesday rejected the simple motion tabled by the National Liberal
Party, in opposition, against the agriculture minister, Petre Daea. The
document was debated upon on Tuesday. The Liberals denounce minister Daea’s
lack of action to contain the African swine fever epidemic in Romania and
demanded his resignation. The National Liberal Party says the population’s food
safety was at risk and that the pork industry has been compromised in Romania
for a long time from now on. In response, the agriculture minister said the
relevant authorities had taken the measures established at European level for
such cases and the evolution of the Swine fever, for which there is no vaccine
or cure at the moment, is strictly monitored. Some 900 outbreaks have been
confirmed in several counties across the country since the emergence of the
first outbreak in Romania in late July 2017.
RadiRo Season tickets are
available as of today for the symphonic concerts given during the RadiRo
International Festival, the only festival in Europe and the world devoted to
radio orchestras, organised by Radio Romania. The festival runs between October
18 and 25, in Bucharest. The musical highlight of the autumn in Bucharest will
bring together some of the best known radio symphony orchestras in Great
Britain, Switzerland, Ireland and Germany, Big-Bands from Denmark and Croatia,
alongside Radio Romania’s National Orchestra and the Big Band. The novelty this
year is a series of jazz concerts given among others by the Romanian-born
vocalist, Aura Urziceanu.
(translated by bill)
