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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-02-29
February 29, 2000
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CONTENTS
[01] CALENDAR
[02] POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
[03] Chamber of Deputies rejected the motion of the opposition regarding
the situation of the Romanian education
[04] Convention of brotherhood of the Bank of Romania signed with three
other European banks
[05] Conference on the theme EURO AFTER FOURTEEN MONTHS
[06] The seminar BUILDING OF ROMANIAN COMPETITIVE ECONOMY IN THE
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
[07] United States investments in Romania have increased
[08] French Army Head of Chiefs of Staff, Jean Pierre Kelche visits
Bucharest
[09] Days of information Leonardo Da Vinci
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CALENDAR
Plenum debates of the Senate.
Consultations between Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu the minister of social
protection Smaranda Dobrescu and leaders of parliamentary groups with a
view to working out the draft of the early pensioning plan.
Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu is meeting the leaders of parliamentary
parties to discuss the strategy of economic and social development of
Romania on a medium term.
The Cabinet approved the draft of the Law of the state budget for the
current year; its provisions will be presented in detail today as part of a
press conference at the Victoria Palace.
Meeting takes place of the Commission led by Academician Tudorel Postolache
head of the government commission for the working out of the strategy of
development on a medium term of Romania with all parliamentary parties to
establish the basic principles of the strategy of development of Romania
on a long term.
Mihai Razvan Ungureanu secretary of state with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs will meet with the Ambassadors of the states which are NATO
members; the meeting takes place here in Bucharest and its aim is the
discussion of the stage of the fulfillment of the objectives included in
the National Programme of Accession.
A Romanian delegation leaves for Brussels to renegociate with the European
Union tariff concessions as well as the increase of the level of
liberalization of agricultural produce trade.
The United States Ambassador to Romania James Rosapepe is in the town of
Oradea alongside the United States Ambassador to Hungary in order to
enhance the efforts of the US Administration to support the International
Romanian - Hungarian Joint Commission. At the request of Ambassador
Rosapepe a team of engineers of the US ARMY will be in Baia Mare for seven
days starting today to examine the system of AURUL Company water spillways.
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POLITICS, ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL NEWS
Chamber of Deputies rejected the motion of the opposition regarding the
situation of the Romanian education
With 86 votes for, 118 votes against and 3 abstentions, the deputies
rejected the motion on the situation of education, reports RADIO ROMANIA
ACTUALITATI. Minister of Education Andrei Marga said that the motion has no
longer any aim as long as the government passed an emergency ordinance
regulating the salaries of the teachers. RADOR
[01] Convention of brotherhood of the Bank of Romania signed with three
other European banks
The National Bank of Romania, the National Bank of France, the Bank of
Italy and the Bank of Netherlands by the national governors and in the
presence of the Head of the European Commission to Romania, Fokion Fotiadis,
signed the documents attesting to their incepted brotherhood. The Governor
of the National Bank of France, Jean Claude Trichet said on this occasion
that the signing is of good omen for the future collaboration of the four
banks mentioned before. Also on Monday Jean Claude Trichet was received by
President Emil Constantinescu and by Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu. The
head of the Romanian state particularly appreciated the diplomatic support
of France which was decisive for the start of negociations with a view to
Romania's accession to the European Union.
[02] Conference on the theme EURO AFTER FOURTEEN MONTHS
The Governor of the National Bank of France, Jean Claude Trichet said in
Bucharest at the conference which he delivered on the theme EURO AFTER
FOURTEEN MONTHS that the budget policy of the European Union countries is
well balanced although there is no single budgetary policy nor a single
European federal budget. He added that the structural reforms alongside the
introduction of the single European currency will stimulate European
governments to cooperate further in the field of real economic development,
informed RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. RADOR
[03] The seminar BUILDING OF ROMANIAN COMPETITIVE ECONOMY IN THE
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
WORLD TRADE CENTER conference center hosted the seminar on the afore
mentioned theme; at the debates participating were specialists of PNR,
representatives of the employers,personalities of the economic life of
Romania. President of the Party, Virgil Magureanu, said that viable
economic recovery can take place only in conditions in which all sides
implied make all efforts, reports RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. RADOR
[04] United States investments in Romania have increased
United States Ambassador to Romania, James Rosapepe, said on Monday as part
of a press conference that United States investments in Romania have
reached second place in 1999, after having been sixth until then.He added
that last year alone investments of the United States increased by 5o per
cent as against the other eight years taken together. Hundreds of United
States companies among which big names such as General Electric, Texaco and
Hewlett Packard, Citibank and Kodak increased investments in Romania last
year added ambassador Rosapepe, quotes RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. RADOR
[05] French Army Head of Chiefs of Staff, Jean Pierre Kelche visits
Bucharest
Head of the Chiefs of staff of the Romanian army Mircea Chelaru met on
Monday with the Head of the chiefs of Staff of the French Army, Jean Pierre
Kelche. After the meeting the press conference emphasized that the two
discussed about the situation in Kosovo, the initiative of European defense
and continuation of cooperation in the spirit of tradition of relations
between the Romanian and the French armies. General Chelaru specified that
the French guest approached with the Romanian defense minister Victor
Babiuc the issue of modernizing Romanian fighter helicopters by cooperation
with the Eurocopter Company, specifies RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI. RADOR
[06] Days of information Leonardo Da Vinci
The information center of the European Commission in Bucharest saw the
opening of the Days of Information Leonardo Da Vinci, a community programme
destined to professional moulding of the labor force. This is part of the
ensemble of activities organized by the potential project promoters. As
part of the first stage of the programme, the dead-line for the projects is
27 March. Since 1997 Romania has advanced 421 proposals aimed at
professional improvement, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI transmits. RADOR
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