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PM Dancila: companies în UAE are interested in building the Bucharest port on the Danube-Bucharest canal
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Wednesday announced that a company in the United Arab Emirates wants to invest more than 100 million US dollars in logistics and industrial parks in Romania."First of all, we met with the Prime Minister, with whom we discussed the possibility of cooperation and the United Arab Emirates making investments in Romania and we presented the projects launched by the Government under a public-private partnership. We also discussed a good ...
CSM: Enforcement of OUG on exercising functions in prosecutor's offices applicable for future, not retroactively
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The Prosecutors' Section with the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) has unanimously decided on Wednesday that the enforcement of the Emergency Ordinance on the justice laws package in relation to the exercising of positions by the prosecutors with the General Prosecutor's Office, the National Anticoruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) is applicable for the future and does not have a retroactive ...
Controversy on the OUG on the laws of justice. The European Commission: We are following developments with concern
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The European Commission is closely following, with concern, the changes made to the Romanian justice laws and will analyze them all very carefully, an EC spokesman said on Wednesday for hotnews.ro. Christian Wigand, spokesperson for the European Commission, quoted First Vice-President Frans Timmermans as saying clearly in the European Parliament debate: While continuing the dialogue with the Romanian authorities, in the spirit of cooperation and in the ...
Former Judge with the Constitutional Court : OUG on the laws of justice is ‘absolutely contrary to the Constitution'
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Former Judge with the Constitutional Court (CCR), Augustin Zegrean, says the emergency ordinance on the laws of justice is ‘absolutely contrary to the Constitution’ and does not believe someone will enforce it, as ‘we are not a banana country’. He also argues that the law cannot be enforced retroactively. “I believe the concerns are useless, the constitution provides that the laws are to be enforced only for the future, ...
AmCham Romania about the draft pension law: We report the lack of economic sustainability of the expenditure increases
Thursday, October 18, 2018
In the context of the recent approval by the Romanian Government of the Pensions’ Law Draft, AmCham Romania expresses its concern regarding the significant increase of the social security expenses that such project levies on the general consolidated budget. We believe that is mandatory for the presentation and consultations around this draft legislation with a major budgetary impact, to include information about the financing sources of the ...
Eurobarometer survey: 65% of Romanians would vote to stay in the EU
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Almost half of Romanians believe being EU member is a good thing and, if a referendum on this use would be organized, 65% would vote to stay in the European Union, a Eurobarometer survey released on Wednesday by the European Parliament. The Eurobarometer informs that 62% of Europeans, the highest level in the past 25 years, and 49% of Romanians, believe belonging to the EU is a good thing, slightly up against the similar ...
PSD-ALDE coalition reaches agreement on offshore law: 50 pct of gas production to be traded on energy exchange
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The ruling coalition's Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) reached common ground regarding the amendments to the offshore law, with PSD floor leader, deputy Daniel Suciu stating that the coalition meeting had decided that 50 percent of the Black Sea gas production shall be traded on the Romanian exchange, and a maximum 30 percent of the additional income tax revenues be deductible. The decision was taken Wednesday ...
ROMATOM : horizontal nuclear industry can ensure 19,000 work places for the implementation of the projects for units 3 and 4 in CNE Cernavoda
Thursday, October 18, 2018
The horizontal nuclear industry in Romania can ensure a significant number of workplaces estimated at19,000 at the moment of the implementation of the projects for unit 3 and 4 in CNE Cernavoda, appreciates the representatives of the Romanian Atomic Forum – Romatom in a press release. As an association of the nuclear industry in Romania affiliated to the forum of the European nuclear industry ROMATOM sent to the ministry of energy a series ...
AOAR: Romania needs a law to be restored in operation or construction of energy production units
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Romania firstly needs a law which allows the putting back into use or the construction of new units for the production of electricity (group of almost 800Mw similar to that of OMV Petrom) the progressive replacement of the feeding of thermo-units on oil and/coal considers the Association of the Business People of Romania (AOAR) in a document presenting their position on the debate referring to the fiscal regime applicable to the oil resources and natural ...
The 9th edition of 'Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest' festival between 19-28 October
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Award winning-movies, Romanian previews, unique screening can be seen between 19-28 October at the 9th edition of the 'Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest' festival, where meetings with filmmakers are also scheduled to take place, as well as master-classes, retrospectives and professional events.Director Cristian Mungiu, the initiator of the festival, told a press conference that this year's edition will include, for the first time, two competitive sections, whose ...
