30Th of September 2011 • Politics • Economics • Culture
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Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ No. 12/ 4 th Year 1st – 30 th of September 2011 • Politics 1. President Traian Basescu on visit to Washington 2. Presidents Traian Basescu and Giorgio Napolitano, supporters of "United States of Europe" creation 3. President Traian Basescu: It is clear that a switch to common budget and fiscal policy is required 4. President Traian Basescu welcomed Belgian Prime Minister at Cotroceni Palace 5. Romania, US sign Ballistic Missile Defence Agreement 6. The Annual Meeting of the Romanian Diplomacy 7. ForMins Baconschi and Sikorski analyse bilateral relationship, European and international cooperation 8. Foreign Ministry sets Consular Crisis Centre with permanent activity in place 9. State Secretary Doru Costea delivered Romania's national statement at the UN General Assembly 10. Romania could provide assistance to South Sudan 11. Romania, elected as President of IAEA General Conference 12. Visit of the Romanian Minister of Justice to the United Kingdom 13. Romania at the “The Scottish Low Carbon Investment - Resource use and energy efficiency” 14. Meeting of the Migration Advisory Committee with representatives of Romanian professional associations in the UK 15. Foreign affairs ministers of the states neighbouring the Danube to meet in Bucharest in November 16. Important changes brought to law no.157/2011 to the judicial regime applicable to foreign citizens • Economics 1. Prime Minister is to coordinate Romanian Centre for Trade and Foreign Investments 2. British investors, interested in energy companies privatization 3. EU Economy - Lessons Learned by a Newcomer, Romania 4. Romania, in the top 50 countries in terms of economic liberty 5. Germany's Ambassador von Mettenheim: Romania should not lose sight of Eurozone accession goal 6. Romania and Turkey aim at 10 billion dollars' worth of bilateral trade exchanges 7. SKorean company to invest in Romanian nuclear plant 8. Romgaz, among the companies pre-selected by Iraq for a bid for oil and gas exploitation 9. Israel industry minister meets Romania officials to discuss deepened bilateral cooperation 10. Pakistan, Romania sign trade treaty 11. Industrial companies estimate 1.2% increase in number of employees in Q3 12. Romania's Wheat Production Exceeds 8 Mln Tons 13. Romania to register record sunflower production 14. Borsec, most powerful Romanian brand 15. Dacia to move part of Sandero production to Morocco, to build more Dusters in Romania 16. German Ambassador: Romania has great chances to invest in Germany 17. Bitdefender target: another 100 million users in a year • Culture 1. Enescu’s Farewell – A Symphony for Twelve 2. The Romanian Orthodox Parish in Nottingham celebrated the 3 rd anniversary of establishment 3. BFI London Film Festival featuring Romanian animated documentary 4. The Film of a Generation: Boogie @ Romanian Cinemateque 5. Alexandra D ăriescu, a Rising Star of Astonishing Virtuosity 6. Contraste Trio opens the 2011/2012 Enescu Concerts Series 7. Musical prodigy Matei Bucur Mih ăescu @ St Martin in the Fields 8. The Romanian Theatre Comes Back to London 9. Ştefan Constantinescu: An Infinite Blue 10. Art Embodied: Romanian artists from the 80s 11. Andreiana Mihail Gallery @ Frieze Art Fair 12. Four Faces of Modernity: Bitzan, Maitec, Mitroi, Nicodim 13. Apparatus 22 @ The Glasgow School of Art Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Tel. 020 7937 9666 Fax: 020 7937 8069 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Politics President Traian Basescu on visit to Washington Bucharest, Sept 14 /Agerpres/ - President Traian Basescu paid a working visit to the US, an occasion on which it was adopted the Declaration on the strategic partnership and signed the Agreement on deploying the antimissile American system in Romania's territory, moments which the Head of State says will go down in the history of our country. The Romanian Head of State had meetings with US President Barack Obama, American Vice- President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and CIA director David Petraeus. President Traian Basescu, President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden met in the Roosevelt Hall, after which the American President invited the Romanian Head of State to the Oval Office, a meeting the US Vice-President attended too. The two Presidents adopted the Declaration on the strategic partnership, a moment which President Basescu says 'will certainly go down in Romania's history.' The meeting at the White House was followed by a visit to the US Congress, then meetings at the CIA headquarters and the Pentagon. At Romania's Embassy in Washington, President Traian Basescu met representatives of the Romanian community in the US, an occasion on which he spoke both of the Romanian-American relation and of questions related to the domestic policy. The Head of State told the Romanians interested in the about 30-minute talk he had with US President Barack Obama in Washington, that the US leader urged for justice to be functioning in Romania. 'I asked the US President: ‘Mr President, what can Romania do for America?' President Obama's answer was: ‘Do so that the law be enforced, do so that your justice should function and this is the greatest thing you can do,'' said Basescu. With respect to the documents agreed upon in Washington, President Basescu stressed it was for the first time that Romania had an enhanced degree of security and the United States was involved in this process. The Head of State said the strategic partnership covered what was 'apparently missing' in the Romanian-US relation, namely the economic, scientific and technological cooperation. 'It is true that, after everybody learnt, a few months ago, that the agreement on deploying missile interceptors in Romania's territory was initialled and sealed, there was a certain enthusiasm of the American companies to act and run business in Romania's territory, and the companies were not small ones at all,' added President Basescu, who also said that it was essential to remove bureaucracy from the relationship with investors. The Romanians attending the meeting with President Traian Basescu, among whom there were sportsman Ghita Muresan, but also Mihai Tanasescu, said they were also interested in Arundel House, 4 Palace Green London W8 4QD UK Tel. 020 7937 9666 Fax: 020 7937 8069 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.london.mae.ro Embassy of Romania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ____________________________________________________________________________________________ subjects related to the domestic policy, from among which mention should be made of the unemployment rate and the situation in justice connected to the property return. The delegation accompanying President Traian Basescu on his visit to Washington included Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi, Minister of Defence Gabriel Oprea, heads of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Romanian Intelligence Service Mihai Razvan Ungureanu and George Maior respectively, presidential advised for security questions Iulian Fota and Secretary of State with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu. Presidents Traian Basescu and Giorgio Napolitano, supporters of "United States of Europe" creation Bucharest, Sept 15 /Agerpres/ - President Traian Basescu and his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano in Bucharest voiced their common points of view regarding the need to create "the United States of Europe". "We reviewed the issues related with the European Union and I supported the need of a much more powerful integration and I do not hinder to reiterate the thesis of the need to create the United States of Europe. Moreover, I underscored the fact that we do not have time for any delays and that the calendar of some important decisions must be very tight. We have analysed together [with the Italian counterpart] the issues concerning the future budget exercise of the European Union, underlining Romania's priorities related with maintaining a powerful development financing, namely the cohesion funds. Also, we have analysed the foreshadowing Agricultural Policy, pointing out to the Italian President and delegation our position concerning the Common Agricultural Policy," President Basescu said at the Cotroceni Palace, at the end of the discussions with the Italian counterpart. In his turn, the President of Italy underscored that he found "a complete viewpoint identity" with the Romanian Head of State, among which the prospects of the European unity relaunching. "The United States of Europe are a great ideal that must lead us on this path to a closer integration, which has now become an objective and it is true that there is a need to accelerate it, because we must make some decisions as soon as possible and to set some grounds, especially through the European Council decisions of July 21 that we comply with and for the implementation of which we collaborate," the Italian President said. In context, Napolitano also said that Italy supported Romania's commitment of accessing the Schengen area and, at the same time, that he understood Romania's points of view concerning the Common Agricultural Policy. Romanian President Traian Basescu believes no European Union member state