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RADOR: News from Romania, 00-04-03The Press Agency of the Romanian Radio (RADOR Society) Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: RADOR Press Agency <http://indis.ici.ro/romania/news/rador.html>April 3, 2000CONTENTS <UL>CONTENTS
[01] Involvement of German businessmen in the Romanian economy has increased dramatically, Germany coming second investment-wiseRepresentatives of foreign companies that have investments in this country will continue to cooperate in the economic domain with companies of Romania despite the fact that legislation and fiscality do raise problems for foreign business. Western European businessmen that met at Sinaia, in the mountains last weekend, are of the opinion that these two aspects have to be solved so that Romania have real chances to be integrated in the European structures in the shortest time possible. The nomination of Romania among the countries invited to negociate accession to the European Union is seen as a challenge. HANNS SEIDEL foundation gathered directors general and executives of a number of German companies as well as decision making officials of Romania. One of the participants, quoted by ROMANIA ONE Television Station, said that, we quote: " Romania is important from the geo-strategic point of view. The implication of German businessmen in the economy of Romania increases dramatically and this is why Germany is second in point of investments in Romania ". The development of business infrastructure and the harmonization of economic and political aspects will smooth down asperities and will make exagerated attitudes dissapear. Of 100 German companies that are operating in Romania, 70 are of the opinion that this country has positive economic prospects. These companies are determined to continue their activity despite problems raised by legislation and fiscality. The Sinaia meeting reviewed partnerships in the last ten years, new opportunities for their expansion having been found. RADOR[02] Economic task-force group designated by the Prime Minister of Romania in order to verify the correctness of tariff increasesPrime Minister Mugur Isarescu designates an economic task-force group to verify the correctness of tariff increases by various public companies and the way their financial resources are used. Government officials which are quoted by MEDIAFAX specify that the Cabinet is not against tariff increases but the public companies must demonstrate that they cut down expenditure and excessive number of employees. RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI mentions that the Cabinet has approved, starting 1 April, increase of tariffs for public utilities by adding VAT of 19 per cent to the unit price. RADOR[03] Romanian beggars are not to be found in London, the United KingdomRomanian beggars in London, who were the subject and object of sustained press campaign are no longer to be found in the streets of the British capital city. The latest regulations regarding sanctuary in Britain funadamentally change the statute of the persons seeking asylum in that country, reports ROMANIA UNU TELEVISION. The new regulations stipulate for the distribution of persons seeking sanctuary in various provinces having already pre-established hostels. According to old regulations cases used to be solved during intervals up tp seven years; according to new ones the cases must be solved in a week at the most. Great Britain was popular due to its generous conditions which now are no longer so generous. Mrs. Barbara Roche, a secretary of state with the Ministry of Home Affairs of the United Kingdom, has said the following: " My message to the persons who think of not so well founded requests of sanctuary and who would be willing to pay a lot of cash to smugglers in order to get to this country is the following - DON'T ! IT IS NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT FOR YOUR MONEY ". Beggars were sought and found with great difficulty in London: they were all of British citizenship. Of the 170,000 requests of sanctuary which are pending settlement the share of Romanian citizens is very small. Radu Onofrei who is the Romanian Ambassador to London said: " There were 1015 requests of asylum in the UK of Romanian citizens in 1998 and their number increased to 1985 last year ". British authorities have no idea where are the Romanian gipsies now. According to some they would in Cambridge, according to others they had flown home by TAROM but the Romanian Air Transport Company TAROM denies having flown back any Romanian citizen refused sanctuary in the UK this year. RADOR[04] Mugur Isarescu and Ivan Kostov, Romanian and Bulgarian Prime Ministers, are asking their opposite numbers of the European Union and NATO members to speed up the process of unblocking traffic on the river DanubeIn a letter sent to opposite numbers of the European Union and NATO members, the Romanian and Bulgarian Prime Ministers are requesting the speeding up of the process of unblocking navigation on the river Danube. Both Prime Ministers wrote in the letter that it is Romania and Bulgaria that suffer as the bridges are not repaired after the debris are cleared and not the regime of Belgrade; more than that, EUROPA LIBERA comments, the Yugoslav authorities are getting money following the blocking of the river in the sector they control, as written by the two Prime Ministers in their letter. Yugoslavia is practically using the Franz Ioseph channel plus the partially cleared sector of the river which it controls and thus is does exercise a political control as it decides which country can and which cannot use that river sector, this in short meaning sanctions against the reighbouring countries. The Prime Ministers of Romania and Bulgaria write in the letter that sanctions against Yugoslavia become less and less efficient while losses of the two mentioned countries are more and more significant, which are added to the negative impact on a social plan and that of environmental protection. The Romanian and Bulgarian Prime Ministers insist that the reestablishment of free navigation on the river Danube be treated separately from the problem of sanctions against Yugoslavia. RADOR[05] The topic of the Budapest meeting of the environment ministers of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the UkraineAt the meeting in Budapest of the ministers of environmental protection of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and the Ukraine which starts today the focus of attention goes to what we have to do in the future rather than to what has happened until now - said Nandor Zoltay, director of the Department of International Relations of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Hungary, quoted by RADIO KOSSUTH BUDAPEST. Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine decided at experts level to work out a detailed document about the possible pollution hotbeds near the river Tisa, areas which are to be controlled most severely by the international authorities. According to the projects this determination is to be promoted alongside Slovakia too, at ministry level. The two countries will jointly ask for financial support from the European Union and from international financial institutions. RADOR[06] Meeting on the theme of education in Magyar in the Carpathian areaAt a forum of education in the Magyar language in the Carpathian area, the Romanian and Hungarian secretaries of state with the ministries of education of the two countries have asked for the signing of bilateral accords referring to the working out of programmes of education and the release of the same text books for schools in both countries where Magyar is being tought. At the meeting which took place, it was also specified that the Budapest Cabinet supports the idea that the Magyars living outside the frontiers of Hungary learn in Magyar in the countries where they live. To this aim extended will be the system of scholarhsips given to the Magyars who live in their home country, reports RADIO KOSSUTH BUDAPEST. RADOR[07] Convention devoted to regional cooperation of public radio stations in the South Eastern area of EuropeA convention devoted to regional cooperation among public radio stations of the Southern Eastern region of Europe is unfolding on the Danish Island of Bornholm. The Scandinavian experience in as far as the unitary area of the market of radio products and of some technical and professional criteria of worktogether among the radio stations in the area is in the focus of attention of representatives of electronic mass media of 14 countries of South Eastern European area and of the former USSR. At the debates which have been attended also by a number of personalities from the European Council and the European Broadcasting Union, the deputy director general of the ROMANIAN RADIO BROADCASTING CORPORATION proposed the making of multiplex news and current affairs programmes to cover joint interest problems. Mr. Paul Grigoriu also spoke of the building of genuine radio bridges in European spirit among the European countries, RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI transmits. RADOR[08] Debts of the companies that distribute power to the Republic of MoldovaThe debts of the companies that distribute power to the Republic of Moldova will be taken over by the state budget of that country and then will be paid to CONEL of Romania. Prime Minister of Moldova Dumitru Braghis spoke over the telephone to the Romanian Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu who presented the difficult situation of CONEL which has to collect about 500 thousand million lei following the contract concluded with the Republic of Moldova. The spokesperson of the Bucharest Cabinet told media that the contract of delivering power to the Republic of Moldova will have to be renegociated on different contract bases. RADOR[09] Statement of the World Magyar UnionMagyar Television braodcast a news item according to which the setting up of the society SZECKLER LAND, a news item which has brought about stormy debates at the meeting of the Prezidium of the World Union of Magyars was denied by the President eof the Union Csori Sandor. It was only an intention which was not materialized but, according to the correspondent of RADIO ROMANIA ACTUALITATI, President Csori said it would not be any harm if such a society were set up as there is only a branch of the Union in each country where there are Magyars, a fact which recalls the former one party systems of the eastern and central European countries. RADOR<HR SIZE=3> CALENDAR The debates of the Committee for budget,finance and banking of the Chamber of Deputies include talks on the budget for the year 2000. Arrival in Bucharest of the delegation of the World Bank with a view to starting the negociations for the programme PSAL - 2. Minister for the protection of the environment, Romica Tomescu, is in Budapest, to attend the official meeting of the ministers for the protection of the environment of Romania, Hungary, the Ukraine and Slovakia, all countries that are riparian in as far as the river Tisa is concerned. Preparations for the Interministerial meeting at executive level for the relations of Romania with the Republic of Moldova. Participating is Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, secretary of state. Weekly press conferences of the political parties PNTCD - Christian Democratic National Peasants Party and UfD - Union of right wing forces - the first at the palace of the Romanian parliament and the second at the seat of the second mentioned party. The SNAGOV PALACE hosts the events occasioned by the DAY OF THE ROMANIAN GENDARMERIE which observes 150 years since the creation of this army corps in Romania. The Forum ROMANIA AT CROSSROADS organizes under the high patronage of President Emil Constantinescu the convention and international exhibition TRANSPORT with the participation of representatives of 50 companies both from Romania and from many other countries. UNITER - Union of Theater Artists - awards for 1999 at Sala Palatului tonight. The Press Agency of the Romanian Radio (RADOR Society) Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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