Physicians In Romania Excluded From Category Of Public Workers
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Wednesday passed the law approving ordinance 2/2004 which stipulates that physicians are not public workers.
In July, Basescu sent the law back to lawmakers for reexamination, displeased with the article which said that “considering the profession of physician and the fundamental obligations of physicians toward their patients, a physician cannot be considered a public worker.”
On September 21, senators rejected the president’s request, arguing the profession of physician is “liberal by excellence.” (Jurnalul National)
Romanian-born Stefan W. Hell Among Nobel Laureates In Chemistry 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”
German citizen Stefan W. Hell was born on December 23, 1962, in Romania’s western city of Arad, and has been an honorific member of the Romanian Academy since 2012. Hell graduated from the University of Heidelberg (Germany) in 1990. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Number of Romanian Tourists In Bulgaria Down 17.8% In 2014
The number of Romanian tourists in Bulgaria has decreased by 17.8% since the beginning of 2014, while the total number of tourists from European Union countries fell 15.5%, according to the Association of tour operators in Bulgaria (ABTTA), as quoted by Dnevnik.bg.
Bulgaria’s tourism sector saw an overall decline of 5.7%, according to the association which says the difference between its own data and official data comes from the fact that the National Statistics Institute also considers business trips and visits to friends.
According to ABTTA, the number of tourists coming from EU countries represents only half of those who visited Bulgaria, compared to 70% five years ago. Association head Baiko Baikov said the decline in the number of tourists coming from Germany, Great Britain and Nordic countries has been a constant trend in the past few years. (Evenimentul Zilei)
Gazprom Lowers Gas Deliveries To Romania By 18%
Russian giant Gazprom reduced deliveries of natural gas to Romania again Wednesday, by 18% compared to the level requested by Romania, the Department for Energy announced.
Gazprom lowered deliveries to Romania by 13% last week. The Russian group also lowered deliveries to Romanian companies in September without warning or explanation.
Russia currently delivers less than 0.2 million cubic meters of gas per day to Romania, while Romania produces around 31 million cubic meters of natural gas a day.
The Russian group lowered deliveries to Romanian companies in September without warning or explanation.
Romania has so far stored one billion cubic meters of gas more than the legally required deposits of 1.8 billion cubic meters. (Adevarul)
Anticorruption Prosecutors Call On Parliament To Lift Immunity Of Former Communications Minister
Romania’s Anticorruption Department has started procedures requesting the Parliament to lift the immunity of former communications minister Valerian Vreme so he may be investigated for abuse of office.
The Chamber of Deputies will convene in plenary session Monday to decide on allowing prosecutors to start the criminal investigation against Vreme, according to the Chamber’s Standing Office.
MP Vreme was a minister between September 2010 and February 2012. (Romania Libera)