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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 19/05/2008-25/05/2008 |
| (2008-05-23) |
| Last updated: 2008-05-26 14:53 EET |
Having been confronted with extraordinary situations like draught and flooding every year, Romania’s government has this year decided to come up with a national strategy for communication and public information in case of emergency. The strategy entails a set of clear rules that eliminate confusion in critical situations and provides for the immediate information of the population about the measures taken by the state so as to reduce the impact of the situation on people. The strategy also provides for the appointment of a person in charge of passing on public information and the establishment of a free call centre. Pandemics, terrorist attacks and earthquakes are also targeted by this government strategy. This week alone, heavy rain accompanied by hail storms and thunder storms have affected half of the counties in Romania. Hundreds of homes have been damaged, tens of villages are isolated or without electricity, rivers have burst their banks, crops and bridges have been destroyed, roads have been blocked and some ports closed temporarily.
The Romanian foreign ministry is preparing measures to support the Romanians living abroad, especially those in Italy. The announcement comes after the Italian government decided to toughen legislation on illegal migration and crimes committed by illegal immigrants. The Romanian foreign minister Lazar Comanescu said the number of consulates would grow and travelling consulates would also be created. The problems faced by Romanian immigrants in Italy and the case of the Romanian citizen who died after a prolonged hunger strike in a Polish prison made minister Comanescu consider tough penalties for the diplomats who do not fulfil their duties. Apart from the measures to support Romanian immigrants, the new Romanian minister announced that one of his immediate priorities is an official visit to the Republic of Moldova, an ex-Soviet republic with a predominantly Romanian speaking population. Comanescu recalled that Bucharest backed Kishinew’s coming closer to the European Union and the signing by the Republic of Moldova of a stabilization and association agreement with the European Union. Comanescu added his goal was to consolidate Romania’s position at regional level to promote the importance of the Black Sea area.
Romania’s GDP in the first quarter of the year is equal to the one recorded in 2000, prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu has stated. He has also said that economic growth is sure to exceed 7% this year, with 2008 being the first year since 1994 when the number of employees will exceed that of pensioners. Tariceanu has said 120,000 jobs were created last year and 500,000 are no longer considered to be a part of the gray economy. Romania’s foreign debt is still a risky factor for the Romanian economy, warns economy and finance minister Varujan Vosganian. He says we shouldn’t worry too much, though, as Romania has a great export potential.
The National Pension Fund has this week started to make the first transfers into the obligatory private pension funds, the so-called “Pillar no 2.” It covers employees of up to 35 years old and others aged between 35 and 45 years who chose an optional private pension fund. Out of the 4 million young employees who are part of this programme, almost half have empty accounts because their employers have failed to pass the required salary-related information.
The Romanian directors Cristian Mungiu, last year’s winner of the Palme D’or Prize in Cannes, and Alexandru Dabija, as well as writer Mircea Cartarescu are three of the seven winners of the National Arts Awards. The award gala was held this week at the Romanian Athenaeum as part of the World day of Cultural diversity for dialogue and development.
Romanian writer Dumitru Tepeneag received on Wednesday in Rome the award of the Latin Union for Literature for the artistic quality of this work and his commitment to supporting the freedom of expression. The award is granted every year to a writer in a Romance language, whether it’s Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese or Romanian. Dumitru Tepeneag was born in 1937 in Bucharest and is today one of the most innovating Romanian writers of the second half of the 20th century. Forced to live in exile in France by Ceausescu’s communist regime, he became a French citizen in 1974 and continued to write in both Romanian and French. The Latin Union, founded in 1954 with the aim of promoting the cultural heritage and identity of the Romance speaking world, has 37 members on 4 continents.
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