People’s Movement Party To Be Set Up In Ten Days
Members of the People’s Movement Foundation have raised over 40,000 signatures and will submit paperwork within ten days to set up the People’s Movement Party, said foundation president Marian Preda.
He added the party plans to have candidates for the European Parliament elections and hopes to score over 5%. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Basescu Thanks Antonescu For Representing Him At Croatia’s EU Accession Ceremony
President Traian Basescu said he asked Senate Chairman Crin Antonescu to represent him Sunday in Zagreb for Croatia’s EU accession ceremony, adding he thanks Antonescu for agreeing.
“Yes, I delegated him to represent me. I asked him to represent me and he agreed and I thank him for agreeing,” Basescu told reporters in Brussels.
Croatia has become the 28th member of the European Union. Croatia is the first new EU member since Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007. It is ten years since it applied. (Puterea)
Romania Raises Caps For Directly Awarded Public Contracts As Of July
Romania has doubled the threshold on public services and product contracts awarded directly from EUR15,000 to EUR30,000 and raised the threshold on public works contracts awarded directly from EUR15,000 to EUR100,000, effective as of July 2013.
The threshold raises have been in the works for years but a final decision had been postponed several times until late 2012, when the Parliament adopted the measures in an amendment to the public procurement law. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Romania Raises Household Gas Prices By 8% In July
Romanian household consumers will pay by 8% more for natural gas as of July 1, the energy watchdog ANRE said.
Starting with October 1, gas tariffs will increase by another 2%.
The measures are part of Romania’s deregulation strategy in the natural gas and electricity markets, which stipulates prices in the sectors are to be aligned to European levels by 2018. (Jurnalul National)
Romania Raises Minimum Wage To RON800 As Of July
The gross minimum wage in Romania will increase from RON750 to RON800 a month, or RON4.74 an hour, as of July 1.
The minimum wage in Romania was last raised in February from RON700 to RON750.
Over 677,000 employees in the private sector will benefit form the increase in minimum wage. (Curierul National)
Over 1,200 Interior Ministry Employees To Patrol Beach Resorts This Summer
Over 1,200 employees of the Interior Ministry will ensure public order in Romanian beach resorts as of Monday, said state secretary Anghel Andreescu.
Police, riot police, firefighters, and border police officers will be detached this summer in seaside resorts, part of an integrated action plan drafted by the Interior Ministry. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Romanians At Heart Of UK Tech Boom – The Independent
Eastern European IT developers could be the new “Polish plumbers”, writes The Independent, presenting a few businesses started by such immigrants, which created jobs in the UK, adding east-Europeans won’t steal British jobs.
Emi Gal, a 23-year-old Romanian expat, is part of a new wave of eastern European immigrants coming to the UK to start businesses in high-growth sectors such as technology and social media, the paper writes.
“Romanians are good at two things – engineering and entrepreneurship,” says Gal, whose native country has produced a Nobel prize-winning biologist, the inventor of the jet aeroplane and even sent an astronaut into space. (Romania Libera)