Final version of Romania’s National Strategic Agricultural Plan
EU’s executive body (European Commission) is expected to receive Romania’s 2023 – 2027 National Strategic Agricultural Plan on Wednesday, according to a statement of Romanian Agriculture Minister Petre Daea. The document includes clear plans of developing the country’s agriculture and food industry such as increasing and diversifying production or reducing environmental impact. Romania is expected to get € 15.8 billion in subsidies, investements or agricultural equipment. Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of the Romanian economy; more than one-third of the land is devoted to cultivation (including vineyards, orchards, and vegetable gardens). Romania has an unusually rich and well-balanced mix of natural resources. However, these reserves have been depleted.
Motion against Romania’s interior minister rejected
With 162 votes against and 88 in support, MP’s of Romanian Parliament’s lower house (House of Deputies) rejected a simple motion against the country’s Interior Minister Lucian Bode on Wednesday. The draft came under debate on Monday (October 17) when authors of the initiative – MP’s of the right-wing Save Romania Union (USR) and the Force of the Right – accused the minister of wrongdoings concerning the purchase of 600 new police cars, lack of institutional reforms and plagiarism of his PhD thesis. Mr. Bode defended himself while claiming the cars’ auction was persued according to law, and his PHD thesis did not contain any unauthorised texts. Mr. Bode is a graduate of the Babeș-Bolyai University in the north-western city of Cluj-Napoca.
Late Mariana Nicolesco at the Romanian Athenaeum
The coffin of the late famous soprano Mariana Nicolesco was deposed at the Romanian Athenaeum in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday. It was supposed to stay there between 9AM and 2PM allowing people to pay their respects. Funerals are expected today at the Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharrest. Born in Găujani (Romania’s southern Giurgiu county), Mariana Nicolesco studied violin in the Romanian central town of Brașov before going to Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania, for bel canto courses. In 1972, she was a graduate of the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and soon after she won the Voci Rossiniane Competition in Milan which brought her to international fame. Mariana Nicolesco died in a Bucharest hospital on October 14. She was 73.
Alexandru Danga, RADOR
