October 28, 2014 UPDATE
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România Internațional, 28.10.2014, 12:15
The Romanian seaside resorts and the Danube Delta will be promoted for the first time this year at the World Travel Market in London, the world’s biggest fair devoted to experts, the Litoral-Delta Dunarii Association announced on Tuesday. The event, which takes place in London over November 3rd and 6th, brings together over five thousand exhibitors from more than 180 countries and regions every year. WTM will this year celebrate 35 years of existence. The Romanian seaside resorts and the Danube Delta are to be promoted at the Travel Fair in Warsaw also in November.
The global economic crisis has had a negative impact on children as poverty has significantly risen in more than half of the rich countries. A UNICEF report shows that almost 76.5 million children are currently poverty-stricken in 41 of the world’s richest countries. The report says that between 2008 and 2012 poverty among children was on the rise against the background of the raging financial crisis. This phenomenon is explained through the consistent deterioration of the families’ standard of living as a result of the job-slashing measures in public administration and other sectors of the economy. The crisis has also affected the young people, as the UNICEF report points out; the number of young people with ages between 15 and 24 who neither go to school nor have a job has risen by nearly 30% in countries like Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Romania.
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday testified in a closed-door hearing part of an anti-Mafia trial underway in Rome. Prosecutors are investigating negotiations allegedly involving ministers, police chiefs and the Mafia with a view to putting an end to a string of bloody attacks in the 1990s. At the age of 89 and very respected in Italy, Giorgio Napolitano was at the time president of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies; he is not suspected of having been involved in those secret negotiations. According to the Italian press, it’s for the first time when an incumbent president is testifying in a trial.
The series of events launched by Radio Romania to celebrate 86 years since its first broadcast, aired on November the 1st, 1928, continues. Under the baton of Tiberiu Soare, with the participation of pianist Horia Mihail, Radio Romania’s choirs and orchestras are to convene in an anniversary concert on Friday. Saturday was the Open Doors Day at Radio Romania, when several thousands people visited the public radio headquarters. The Radio Romania Broadcasting Corporation is a structure made up of three national stations, nine regional stations and an international channel, which broadcasts in 10 foreign languages, in Romanian and the Aromanian dialect.
Almost half of the citizens of the Republic of Moldova, an ex-Soviet Republic with a mostly Romanian-speaking population, are in favor of their country’s accession to the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The results of a poll conducted this month in the former soviet republic, without Transdniester, show that 45% of Moldovans favor the joining of this Russia-led structure, while only 43% are backing EU accession, down from 52% last year. On the other hand, 48% of the citizens want their country to become a NATO member. Experts say that the latest polls show an increase in the number of euroskeptics in the Republic of Moldova.
