Romania has the cultural and historical vocation to be a bridge between Russia and the West, says Dominique de Villepin
Romania has the cultural and historical vocation to be a bridge between Russia and the West, says former French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin. The French politician believes that currently Europe has a negligible role in global foreign policy and that it should redress the dialogue with Russia, despite historical fears of Baltic and eastern states.
Dominique de Villepin: „My belief is that Europe must remain close to Russia. Together with the Russians we can reflect on a new stage of building of European security, to work with them on security issues, to define together a timetable for lifting sanctions together with goodwill gestures from the Russians, but also from the Europeans. Let us use European assets, for example countries like Romania, which for historical, cultural and geographical reasons has the ability to understand both East and West and it is well placed to address the European concerns sometimes irrational or based on history”. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos has concluded his visit to the United States
Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos has concluded today his visit to the United States. The main objective was to develop bilateral economic relations, based on Strategic Partnership. Romanian Prime Minister encouraged American investors to come to Romania and he presented them our country’s economic potential. Cooperation in the field of new technologies in energy production, technologies which will have a low environmental impact but also energy efficiency was one of the topics of discussion that Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos had today in Washington with the head of the Department of Energy, Ernest Moniz. „We have the promise of some actions which will be put in place in the next period with the objective of putting in contact people working in the energy field, especially research and development in energy in the United States and Romania”, said Dacian Ciolos. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)/astrugar
The labor force in Romania fell by half in the last 25 years
The labor force in Romania fell by half in the last 25 years Currently, according to latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics, the active population is about 9 million people. The causes are – demographic decline, the lack of a culture regarding mobility from one country’s area to another and also the education system, which does not educate young people with the skills that employers are looking for. At the same time, it calls attention that the decline that we will see at the workforce level will be felt very strongly in the coming years, because the education system is not a performant one. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Adrian Strugariu
