Radio România Internațional

Tag: Marinescu

  • October 13, 2021 UPDATE

    October 13, 2021 UPDATE

    TALKS Romania’s Prime Minister designate, USR leader Dacian Ciolos said that
    no decision was made during the first round of talks he had on Wednesday with
    representatives of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Democratic Union of
    Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) and of the national minorities with a view
    to building up a government majority. A new meeting is going to take place on
    Friday. Ciolos says he wants to forge a government as soon as possible to be
    able to tackle the issues related to the pandemic and the soaring energy
    prices. According to Ciolos, the USR sees no majority format except for that
    involving the PNL, UDMR and the representatives of the minorities in Romania.
    According to interim Prime Minister and Liberal leader Florin Citu, the responsibility
    for a majority lies with the USR, PSD and AUR who voted the PSD censure motion
    that led to the dismantling of his cabinet. In turn, UDMR leader Kelemen Hunor
    has signaled the lack of trust and recommended politicians to put
    self-importance aside.








    HOLOCAUST Romanian president Klaus Iohannis attended an International Forum
    dedicated to the commemoration of the Holocaust and combating anti-Semitism in
    Malmo, Sweden, on Wednesday. In his speech Iohannis said quote, ‘attempts at
    denying and distorting the Holocaust have lately turned increasingly subtle and
    dangerous in order to downplay the responsibility of the participants and their
    cronies as well as the suffering inflicted on the victims.’ President Iohannis
    says that Romania has been involved in an ample process of revising the
    education programmes about the Holocaust with its young generation. The
    Romanian official has also mentioned the efforts underway for the inauguration
    in Romania of the National History Museum of the Jews and the Holocaust.






    COVID-19 According to the National
    Centre for the Supervision and Control of Infectious Diseases in Bucharest, 94%
    of the deaths caused by the coronavirus over October 4th and 10th
    consisted of patients with related comorbidities while 73% of the confirmed
    cases and 91% of the registered fatalities consisted of unvaccinated
    individuals. Authorities in Romania on Wednesday announced over 15,700 new
    infections as well as 390 fatalities. At least 1670 people are in ICUs and the
    highest infection rates have been reported by capital city Bucharest and Timis
    county, in western Romania. Doctor Adrian Marinescu, with the Bucharest-based
    Institute for Infectious Diseases, says that he expects the entire month of
    October to be very difficult from the viewpoint of the medical crisis but
    believes the situation will improve and the upcoming winter holidays are going
    to be peaceful.








    AID
    Hungary will help Romania to treat 50 patients infected with Covid-19 who are
    in need of intensive care, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto was
    quoted by MTI as saying on Wednesday. The 50 patients are to be treated in two
    hospitals in Hungary. According to the Hungarian official, Hungary has already
    donated ventilators and favipiravir, an
    anti-viral drug used in treating Covid 19. Poland has offered 50 oxygen
    concentrators while Italy has donated five thousand doses of monoclonal
    anti-bodies also used in the treatment of the disease. We recall that
    authorities in Romania had called for international assistance in their efforts
    to keep the pandemic at bay.




    (bill)

  • March 8, 2019

    March 8, 2019

    POPULATION Romania’s population continues to diminish due to a decline in
    the fertility rate and due to migration, data publish by the National Institute
    for Statistics (INS) show. 200 people, mostly men with ages between 30 and 40,
    are leaving the country on a daily basis. According to the aforementioned
    institute on January 1st 2018 there were 120 thousand people less
    than on January 1st 2017. According to the same data, more Romanians
    died than were born and the number of those leaving the country was higher than
    those who entered it. A 2017 INS survey shows that more children were born in
    Romanian families living in Italy than in Romania and the number of children
    born in Romanian families abroad is double than in Romania.












    MANDATE Romania’s Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has
    presented in Bucharest the results of the first two months of the Romanian EU
    presidency. It is an efficient and high-quality mandate highly appreciated by
    all our European partners, the Prime Minister has said underlining the completion
    of 67 files during this period. Referring to major issues on the European agenda,
    Dancila says that Romania managed to secure consensus on several pending files
    like the post-2020 EU budget, the functioning of the European single market,
    industry competitiveness, stimulating digitization, social rights protection,
    internal security, fighting terrorism, handling migration challenges, the EU’s
    future after Brexit through tight cooperation as well as open and constructive dialogue with
    representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the
    General Secretariat of the Council. In the first two months of its mandate,
    Romania has managed over 650 events and meetings, both in the country and in
    Brussels, the Prime Minister has also said.










    GROWTH With a 0.7% growth in the fourth quarter of 2018 as against the
    previous three months of the year, Romania’s economic growth was three times
    higher than the 0.2% reported in the eurozone and more than double of the 0.3%
    in the EU, says the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat. However,
    the growth rate of the Romanian economy in the last three months of 2018 is below
    the ones in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Cyprus, Hungary, the Czech
    Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia. Finland, Denmark and Spain have also
    reported a growth rate of 0.7% whereas Germany, Europe’s biggest economy,
    reported zero growth in the same period of last year. Greece and Italy experienced
    a decline of 0.1%. In comparison with the same period of 2017, in the fourth
    quarter of 2018, Romania’s economy registered a growth rate of 4%, nearly four
    times higher than the 1.4% EU rate and 1.1% in the eurozone.












    FORECASTS The macroeconomic forecasts the 2019 state
    budget is based upon are unrealistically optimistic, Cosmin Marinescu, economic
    councilor for the Romanian president, has today said in Bucharest. According to
    Marinescu, incomes are over evaluated by 1% of the GDP and are based
    exclusively on pledges. Investments from local authorities are at an all-time
    low of 1.2% of the GDP and the budget adopted in February indicates a Romanian
    contribution to the EU diminished by 105 million euros. Marinescu went on to
    say that the big deficit shows that the adjustment to 2018 is practically
    non-existent, which runs counter the European Commission’s recommendation of a
    1% of the GDP. Romanian president Klaus Iohannis has sent back to Parliament the
    law on the 2019 state budget. The president had previously notified the
    Constitutional Court, which deemed the law as constitutional. The 2019 budget
    is based on a 5.5% economic growth, a 2.5% deficit and a GDP of 200 billion
    euros.


    (translated by bill)