​The state is obliged to pay part of the production of the American film “Contractor”, shot in Romania ●We entered the Christmas month with the highest pork price since December 2015 ● And you, Austria? Romania’s misfortune and entry into Schengen ●Unsuccessful auction in Iasi: steel became concrete ● A villa in Bucharest with a secret tunnel that leads to TVR ● Effects of fireworks on animals: can stun or cause internal ear bleeding ●All social categories that receive income or receive social benefits pay contributions to social health insurance ●Putin’s original plan: conquer Ukraine in 10 days and kill Zelensky ●Germany supports German language teachers in Romania with more than 1.33 million euros ●10 years of popular protest against Causism

​The state is obliged to pay part of the production of the American film “Contractor”, shot in Romania

In June 2018, the government led by Viorica Dencile adopted a government decision which stipulated that public aid could be granted to cover a maximum of 45% of eligible production costs for films made in Romania. A year later, participating in the production of the American action film “The Contractor” starring actor Chris Pine, Icon Films SRL requested and received 22,959,564 lei, which is 35 percent of the costs incurred in Romania for the production of the film. , which will be released on April 1, 2022. Only the money promised by the Government no longer goes to the accounts of the company that took care of filming in Romania for 8 weeks. Icon Films SRL goes to court and wins the case, but the verdict is not final and can be appealed, writes JustNews.ro

We entered the Christmas month with the highest pork price since December 2015

The price of a 100-kilogram S-type pig carcass arrived at the farm gate in Romania at an average of 231.7 euros. This is 56.6% more than in the same period last year, 6.6% more than a month ago and 3.2% more than the previous week. In general, this year before Christmas we have the most expensive pork since European statistics on this topic exist, that is, since 2015. In addition, it is the most expensive pork in the EU, writes Economica.net

And you, Austria? Romania’s misfortune and entry into Schengen

At the time of publication of this text (December 4, 2022), there was still no certainty that Romania would be accepted into Schengen at the JAI Council on December 8.

If accession is delayed (as President Iohannis and Foreign Minister Aurescu cautiously hint at), it is known to be due to Austrian opposition.

If Austria changes its mind in the next 4 days, then Schengen entry will be done at a very specific and very economical price – a price that we will see in the coming years how the Romanian economy will pay: and Romania really has enough experience to be able to estimate the price, for how Austria works.

The dispute over Romania’s accession has three components: political, purely economic and, more recently, geopolitical – this is so in December 2022, writes Christian Gross in Governance Course

Malfunctioning auction in Iasi: steel has become concrete, the Court of Accounts is on its way

The €70 million terminal had to be built with steel columns and metal beams, according to the exact requirements of the Specifications. The price for this technical solution was higher than for prefabricated reinforced concrete. Strabag won the tender with the lowest price, then they abandoned steel and used concrete beams. The pillars are already installed, they are in the photo. The airport management has not yet given an official response. Authoritative sources claim that the steel had to be transported from Ukraine, which became impossible after the start of the war

One problem: the war began back in February, when the auction was still ongoing and the verdict was months away, so the time for change was early in the proceedings. Strictly legally, changing a technical decision imposed on the auction leads to a restart of the entire review process, since the price of the next in the ranking was affected by the original rules. The scandal is just beginning, it will appear in Iasi, on control, Audit of the Accounting Chamber, writes ReporterIS

A villa in Bucharest with a secret tunnel that leads to TVR. It belonged to Princess Ileana and was the residence of Tanzi Georgiou, daughter of Deja

On January 4, 1948, Princess Ileana left the villa in Dorobant for good; she was forced to leave the country after the forced abdication of King Mihaj I. 1948 was also the year that the Mediterranean-style villa would be nationalized. After her daughter, Archduchess Maria Ileana, died in a plane crash in 1959, Princess Ileana became a monk and founded Shimbarea la faat Monastery in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, the first Romanian Orthodox monastery in North America.

Only in September 1990, Oleksandr’s mother will be able to return to Romania for the first and last time after exile. A few months later, he died in his cell in a Romanian monastery. Paradoxically, the coat of arms of the royal house of Romania would remain until the 1950s on the pediment of the villa in Dorobant, writes B365.ro

Effects of fireworks on animals: can stun or cause internal ear bleeding

“Fireworks are a traumatic factor for animals,” says Ovidiu Rosu. The holidays are an even more dangerous time for animals because of the increased level of fireworks, he added.

According to the veterinarian, the birds were the most affected. Urban fires impair their vision, and they lose the ability to fly normally, crashing into such buildings or other objects.

Field research confirms the same. The Association for Animal Ethics notes that fireworks and explosive materials cause serious injury to animals. These are hearing loss, fear, stress and harmful effects of toxins.

“There is also a side of toxicity,” says Ovidiu Rosu.

Fireworks leave a toxic effect on the environment in the form of residues in the atmosphere, writes Free Europe.

All social categories that receive income or receive social benefits pay contributions to social health insurance

Increasing revenues from social health insurance contributions by abolishing tax credits, while ensuring financial protection for people on low incomes, and increasing the financing of health services from private sources through private health insurance and weighted personal contributions are measures introduced by the Ministry of Health in strategies for the period 2022-2030 and must be approved by the Government, writes Profit.ro

Putin’s original plan: conquer Ukraine in 10 days and kill Zelensky

Russia planned to launch a military invasion of Ukraine with a “massive missile and air campaign” against Ukrainian military targets. According to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a specialist British think tank, Moscow has also compiled a list of leaders from Kyiv who should be killed, intimidated and who would be collaborators of the new regime installed by Putin. tank on defense and security issues.

The list of the dead included President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Parliament and other political leaders. The plan also showed that after the conquest of Ukraine by March 5, it would be fully annexed to Russia in August, writes PressHub

Germany supports German language teachers in Romania with more than 1.33 million euros

On November 30, at the German Embassy in Bucharest, Ambassador Dr. Peer Gebauer and the CEO of the Saxony Foundation, Klaus-Harald Sift, signed a funding agreement for the amount of 1,333,260 euros. With this amount, more than 900 teachers and educators can be supported with allowances. The goal is to ensure high quality teaching of the German language. The project also supports teams of authors who write or update modern textbooks for teaching German as their mother tongue in Romania, according to the materials of DW

Public gardens in Drumul Taberey II – Fence and other residents – animals (next to the quarter)

In an interview in 1960, Maria Tenase testified: “I was born in Bucharest, in the old Keramidarilar slum. A slum where vegetables, fruit trees and flowers grow. In the parent’s garden that smells of apricots.” Due to the ban on the construction of fortifications during the Ottoman rule, Bucharest grew as a sprawling city with a low population density. The first attempt to keep the city within clear boundaries was made quite late, with the project of fortifications around the capital (1884-1914). Thus, the city was constantly expanding, but keeping within itself large undeveloped territories, manors or squares, gardens, vineyards or vegetable gardens, writes Escoada

Companies are switching to loans in euros with interest rates one third compared to lei

While interest rates on new corporate loans in lei continued to rise in October, surpassing the 10% threshold, interest rates on euro loans remained at 3.4% per annum for companies, prompting a continued migration to foreign currency loans. comes from data published by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).

In the first ten months of the year, companies received loans in euros worth about 5.1 billion lei, which is almost twice as much as in the same period last year. write a management course

10 years of popular protest against Causism

During the communist period, the resistance took the form of banks. It was a light, frivolous resistance that didn’t really change anything. But the benches were more than a form of resistance, but a social valve, a means of pressure.

Folklorist, cultural anthropologist and ethnologist Mihai Pop defined the political benches of the communist period as: documents of living history that tell how people lived in Romania during half a century of communism. Benches are reflections by which people distance themselves from what is unbearable for them.

This definition can be found in the preface to the work that brings together the Romanian political banks of the period 1979-1989. I got acquainted with it in the Central University Library in Bucharest. The volume was published by Celin Bohdan Stefanescu in 1991 under the title “10 Years of Romanian Black Humor”. Journal of political banks, writes Dela0.

Russians are told on TV that Putin’s army captured Kyiv in the first 7 days of the invasion and then returned it to the Ukrainians

Vladimir Putin’s favorite propagandist Margarita Simonyan, who is the editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel, was invited to the state program “Russky Mir”, where she stated that the Russian army captured the capital of Ukraine in the first year. invasion week. The images were selected and posted on Twitter by Julia Davis, a journalist for The Daily Beast and creator of the Russian Media Monitor.

“We are not like them. And if we are like them, then what else are we fighting for? We fight because we are different and for our right to be different. Not fascists, not hysterics, just not idiots like them. If our neighbor is an idiot, should we be idiots too?” Simonian says during the show, according to the recording. Svoboda writes.