President Klaus Iohannis will hold consultations with all political parties on Monday for the nomination of a new prime minister
President Klaus Iohannis will hold consultations with all political parties on Monday for the nomination of a new prime minister after Grindeanu cabinet was dismissed by censure motion. Romanian President, who attends the summer meeting of the European Council in Brussels, listed the criteria that must be met by the future prime minister. „The Prime Minister must be a truthful person, without criminal problems, a person who convinces me that he has the capacity to lead a government and a person backed by a parliamentary majority”, said Klaus Iohannis. Earlier, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea also said that the future Prime Minister must be a fair and responsible man, honest, a person with vision. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Romanian resercher Catalina Curceanu won the prestigious prize „Emmy Noether” for Women in Physics
Romanian resercher Catalina Curceanu, who for over 25 years has been working at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Frascati, Italy,
won the prestigious prize „Emmy Noether” for Women in Physics. „This Emmy Noether prize from the European Physical Society is a prize I obtained for scientific activity and scientific disclosure”, said Catalina Curceanu. „It is a prize that has the goal of encouraging and awarding women working in science, just to provide models for young girls, to encourage them to study the science”. The prize was created in the memory of the German mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether, considered to be one of the most important women in the history of mathematics, due to contributions in the field of algebra and physics. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Romania is on the last places in the European Union regarding survivor’s pension
Romania is on the last places in the European Union regarding survivor’s pension, spending less than 60 euros per capita, namely 51 euros – show data from the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat). In the European Union, almost 220 billion euros were spent in 2014 in the form of survivors’ pensions, which represents almost 6% of the amount spent on social benefits, namely a percentage almost equivalent to that one spent on unemployment – 5% and disabilities – 7%. The countries which allocate the most money are Luxembourg and Denmark, with over one thousand euros each. At the opposite pole, alongside our country there are Great Britain, Latvia and Estonia. (RADIO ROMANIA reports)
Adrian Strugariu
