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  • The Priorities of Romania’s Recovery and Resilience Plan

    The Priorities of Romania’s Recovery and Resilience Plan

    The centre-to-right coalition government in
    Bucharest on June 2nd made public the National Recovery and
    Resilience Plan PNRR – about 12 hundred pages sent to the EU with measures,
    which would allow Romania to attract 29 billion euros worth of EU funds. This
    money, which Romania can get as loans or subsidies is part of a major plan of
    672 billion euros designed by Brussels so that all the member states can
    overcome the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Authorities in Romania
    want to use some of the money to build over 400 kilometers of motorway,
    hundreds of schools and kindergartens and refurbish many hospitals.




    In fact, the transport infrastructure,
    Education and Healthcare are going to receive most of the funds. The plan also
    contains provisions for some environment activities such as reforestations or
    an improved waste management. According to Prime Minister Florin Citu, all the
    loans Romania is going to get by means of PNRR will be used for investment.




    Florin Citu: We must get loans to
    invest in Romania as we need to build motorways, hospitals, schools, and the
    loans we get by means of this PNRR are at a low interest rate, close to zero.
    Germany, Spain, Italy, countries from the Eurozone, are getting loans at this
    rate. The fact that we can get loans at such a low interest rate and invest
    them is a good thing for Romania.




    Deputy prime
    ministers Dan Barna and Kelemen Hunor have underlined that key sectors will
    significantly change and that all communities, irrespective of the region will
    be equitably and fairly supported. On the other hand, Lucian Romascanu,
    spokesman for the opposition PSD, believes that on the contrary, the projects
    included in the PNRR will be causing new imbalances.




    Lucian Romascanu: We don’t have anything when it comes to motorways, rail
    roads, irrigation systems or gas networks, and that situation is condemning
    Romania to underdevelopment. We are going to have a country which is developed
    unequally, right at a time when we can give it a new look by properly using
    these funds.




    The plan also contains a series of reforms in
    terms of pensions, justice, state companies and the payment of the personnel in
    the public system. While the government says that it wants to recalculate
    pensions, the opposition PSD has referred to the former’s intention to increase
    the pension age, implement austerity measures and freeze incomes.




    According to the Social-Democrats, the poverty
    of the Romanians and the dropping standard of living are the only certitudes of
    the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience. According to the Minister of Investment and
    European Projects, Cristian Ghinea in the next period Bucharest is waiting for the
    official assessment of this plan in Brussels and for its approval. From that
    moment on the ways of implementing the aforementioned plan belong exclusively
    to Romania.


    (bill)





  • MEDIA 2020 – Sinaia 2017 (update)

    MEDIA 2020 – Sinaia 2017 (update)

    Today, Hotel Palas in Sinaia hosted the Media 2020 Conference, entitled How can Asia-Europe cooperation help meet new media challenges, organized by Radio Romania and ABU (Asia-Pacific — Europe Broadcasting Union), attended by Minister of Culture and National Identity Lucian Romașcanu.


    Present in Sinaia, Minister of Culture and National Identity Lucian Romașcanu spoke upon the opening of the conference about the mission of public media outlets and their role in informing and educating:


    “What you do here is important, because bringing together entities from Asia and Europe is more than a technical discussion on what we are doing or will be doing as media outlets.”


    Javad Mottaghi, General Secretary ABU, PhD, said that broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region face similar challenges with European broadcasters. He said that the importance of such an international platform is to establish ways to deal with challenges and opportunities in any part of the world, providing an opportunity for partners to learn from one another.


    Experts from across the world spoke about the way in which broadcasters from all continents deal with changes in the media industry. Debates in the first half of the day focused on the major trends in developing media in Europe, Asia, and America. Media experts debated the way in which the progress of technology influences content without affecting the accuracy of information, also discussing the way the refugee issue has been treated in the media.


    Proceedings continued with presentations of youth oriented media projects, with discussions on the positive or negative role of social media platforms.


    At the end of the 3rd edition of the Media 2020 conference, the second held in Romania, Interim Director General of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation Georgică Severin concluded:


    “As director general of public radio, I was pleased to hear about so many best practices implemented by broadcasters all over the world. It is equally pleasing to see how an information Silk Road links once again Asia to Europe.”


    On Tuesday and Wednesday, also in Sinaia, the conference continues, bringing together heads of public radio and television outlets from several member countries (Public Broadcasters International members), as part of the PBI 2017 Conference.


    For more details, go to www.media2020.srr.ro, as well as www.pbi2017.srr.ro.

  • MEDIA 2020 – Sinaia 2017

    MEDIA 2020 – Sinaia 2017

    The central Romanian resort of Sinaia is host to the 3rd Asia-Pacific — Europe Media Dialogue conference. The event is organized jointly by Radio Romania and ABU (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union), and brings together experts from all over the world in an effort to respond to current challenges in a rapidly changing media landscape.


    According to the organizers, Media2020 is a meeting place for radio, TV and other media broadcasters on the 21st Century information highway between Europe and the Asia-Pacific. It will be a place to learn and share, to network and benefit from each other’s experience. The 2017 edition of the conference will be held in conjunction with Public Broadcasting International in Bucharest.


    The first day of the event began with the keynote speech, delivered by the interim director general of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation, Georgică Severin. He underlined the fact that the general topic of the conference is the growing power of the media in a fast changing world, and that accuracy of information is paramount. In his opening speech, Minister of Culture Lucian Romașcanu spoke about the role of public broadcasters in providing information and education, pointing out that such events build bridges between Asian and European cultures.