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  • Young Travelers

    Young Travelers

    These young people for whom
    trekking became a genuine lifestyle, have gone visiting the country gleaning
    materials from all the places they visited with a view to promoting Romania’s
    most beautiful regions. Marian Oancea, project manager and chair of the
    ‘Zigzagging through Romania’ Association told us more about this project.




    Marian Oancea: Zigzagging
    through Romania Association is a project, which was founded in 2014 with a view
    to promoting Romania’s natural beauties. We started out as a group of
    enthusiastic young people and after a while we got organized so that we may be
    able to promote the beauties of all of Romania’s counties. We stay about 40
    days in a county, trying to gather enough material to promote that county, such
    as photos, articles, videos, which we later make available online so that they
    can be used by others as well.






    In the past five years these young
    people have created another lifestyle, as Marian told us:




    Marian Oancea: We did
    nothing else but stayed in every county, learned about the people and their
    stories, and that made us to really fall in love with this country and its
    beauty.


    Cosmina, another member of this
    association told us about how she was influenced by this experience.




    Cosmina: I used to be very
    lackadaisical; wouldn’t go trekking in the mountains or wake up in the morning
    to visit a certain tourist objective. So, I have been out of my comfort zone
    for years now and that has changed me, disciplined me from many points of view.
    Not that I am a very organized person now but I can see things from a different
    angle.






    Cosmina has also told us how this
    association actually works.


    Cosmina: We actually spend
    40 days in every county and trip-planning is done beforehand. We start
    contacting people from the travel business area of that county in order to find
    out what places are worth visiting and what stories we can learn. We are
    focusing on less-known tourist objectives, which we later promote on our blog.
    On the first day we go to the Information Center to see how they do tourist
    promotion and we start spending three-four days in every area of that county,
    be it town, village according to the region’s tourist potential.






    So that’s how they ended up talking about 36 counties, which find their
    promotion stories online. The online content needs, of course, to be updated,
    so the project to which these young people have dedicated themselves does, in
    effect, never end, Marian says:






    Marian Oancea: Apart from the online environment, which we are now
    trying to update as much as we can, so that it is accessible to any type of
    user, we’ll also try to create a platform that personalises our travel
    recommendations according to specific target groups to save people time and for
    them not to end up visiting tourist sites that are not suitable to them. I have
    seen so far 2-3,000 tourist sites and a lifetime is not enough to see
    everything, so it’s nice when someone helps you make a selection before you
    start on your journey.






    These young people really love
    Romania. Here’s Marian again:






    Marian Oancea: First of all, you don’t need a map to see beautiful
    things in Romania. The only thing you need to do is open your eyes and enjoy
    what’s around you and even imagine your are a local, put yourself in his or her
    shoes, talk to the people, relax and start appreciating all the beautiful
    things around you. I think the biggest challenge people in general face is
    being able to maintain this positive vibe and see these beautiful things.






    It’s an experience that poses many different challenges, as Marian told
    us:


    Marian Oancea: The greatest joy was being able to embark on this
    journey with our friends and having a great time whenever we visited a new
    county. The least pleasant part was leaving some other friends behind, as well
    as our families, who weren’t very supportive of what we were doing in the
    beginning and who we have managed to convince in time that we would be able to
    see the whole of Romania in this way.




    Marian wonders in fact:




    Marian Oancea: Why is it that young people don’t appreciate this
    country more? I think the answer is because their parents don’t know the
    country very well themselves and so they don’t instil this sentiment in their
    children, so that they would pass it on and embrace this Romanian spirit.






    The example given by these young people is an invitation to get to know
    Romania better and set about to discover it with enthusiasm.




    (translated by Cristina Mateescu & bill)





  • În România, a fost declanşată o săptămână de luptă împotriva corupţiei la frontiere

    În România, a fost declanşată o săptămână de luptă împotriva corupţiei la frontiere

    În perioada 5-9 decembrie, cu ocazia aniversării Zilei Internaţionale Anticorupţie (9 decembrie) se desfăşoară acţiunea intitulată “Săptămâna anticorupţie la frontiere”. Comportament responsabil şi eliminarea riscurilor de fapte de corupţie, cât şi conştientizarea cetăţenilor care tranzitează graniţele României cu Ucraina şi Republica Moldova – sunt câteva din cerinţele impuse de Direcţia Naţională Anticorupţie în acest interval.



    Până vineri, 9 decembrie, cetăţenii din cele trei state şi alţi turişti care trec prin punctele de frontieră din Sighet, Halmeu, Galaţi, Oancea, Albiţa, Siret şi în Aeroportul Otopeni, pe sensul de intrare în ţară, vor primi din partea reprezentanţilor Direcţiei Anticorupţie, ai Poliţiei de Frontieră şi a voluntarilor materiale informative însoţite de recomandări pentru adoptarea unui comportament integru şi o atitudine pro-activă la sesizarea faptelor de corupţie. Deviza programului este : Pe aici, corupţia nu trece ! La această campanie vor participa, în calitate de voluntari, inclusiv elevi din localităţile de frontieră cu care Direcţiile Anticorupţie au semnat un protocol de colaborare cu deviza “Tinerii împotriva corupţiei!”



    Masurile de prevenire si de combatere a corupţiei la frontiere sunt, de altfel, insistent aduse în atenţia opiniei publice, în situaţia în care România solicită, de mai mulţi ani, statutul de membru al Spaţiului Schengen. În timp ce autorităţile de la Bucureşti spun că nu există motive obiective, tehnice, ca România să nu poată adera la acest spaţiu de liberă circulaţie în cadrul UE, o decizie politică prin consens, favorabilă României se lasă, încă, aşteptată. Principala obiecţie a unor parteneri din UE este tocmai nivelul ridicat al corupţiei. Aderarea la Spaţiul Schengen are ca efect ridicarea controalelor între frontierele interne ale statelor membre care aplică în întregime acquis-ul Schengen, fiind creată o singură frontieră externa, unde controalele se desfăşoară conform unui set de reguli clare în materie de vize, migraţie, azil, precum şi măsuri referitoare la cooperarea poliţienească, judiciară sau vamală.



    Paralel cu măsurile anticorupţie de la frontiere, în luna decembrie, inspectorii ANAF vor face controale de amploare la agenţii economici, a căror activitate se intensifică în preajma sărbătorilor de iarnă. Ei vor urmări, cu precădere, fluxurile de bunuri provenite din achiziţii din state ale UE sau din import, în vederea identificării riscurilor determinate de comportamentul fiscal al destinatarilor înscrişi în documentele vamale, de transport sau de provenienţă. Tot pe parcursul lunii decembrie, ANAF va organiza zeci de licitaţii pentru valorificarea unor bunuri mobile şi imobile, în vederea recuperării unor sume stabilite prin hotărâri judecătoreşti pronunţate în materie penală şi rămase definitive.