Daily Archives April 3, 2014

Romanian wines could be successfully exported to third-party markets, where they are promoted through a programme financed with EU funds, the Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin said at a wine tasting event on the margin of the 29th European Regional Conference (ERC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Photo credit (c): Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES Photo ‘We have a promotion programme for the Romanian wines, financed from European funds and from the state budget, especially on third party markets. Thus we have promoted wines in Thailand, China, Switzerland, and Russia, too, I think, that is
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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Thursday that the allotment of the EU funds for research and for supporting the activity of the young PhD and post-PhD students represents the best investment for the future. Photo credit: (c) Liviu SOVA / AGERPRES PHOTO ‘If we have managed to allot 150 million euros for the school infrastructure — absolutely necessary, in fact — at the beginning of this year, from the European funds too, the more so the fact that today more than 250 million euros goes to human investment, to people who must continue a positive path for our
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Minister of Culture Hunor Kelemen thinks that the Art Safari is an extremely courageous initiative which, without doubt, is equally necessary for Bucharest and for the entire Romanian society. Photo credit: (c) George CALIN / AGERPRES PHOTO ‘Art Safari will be an European means to popularize, know and promote Romanian art in its dynamics and in the contemporary European context,’ Kelemen on Thursdays told the press conference on organizing the Art Safari Art Pavilion in Bucharest, which was held in the Ion Heliade Radulescu Assembly Hall of the Library of the Academy. In the opinion of the Minister of Culture,
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The volume of retail trade in Romania advanced 1.4 per cent in February 2014 from January 2014. A higher rise in the European Union in similar terms was recorded only by Malta (1.9 per cent), according to data released on Thursday by the EU’s statistical office Eurostat. Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES ARCHIVE In February 2014 compared with January 2014, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade rose by 0.4 per cent in the euro area (EA18) — Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland
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President of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF), Razvan Burleanu, had a meeting with the UEFA President, Michel Platini, at the House of European Football, in Nyon, occasion on which Platini wanted to assure Burleanu of UEFA’s entire support for the Romanian football, according to a press release on the website of the FRF. Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES PHOTO On the occasion of this meeting, President Razvan Burleanu also gave an interview for the UEFA webpage, in which he reiterated his intention to initiate a new way of thinking and to start new projects following the UEFA model
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