Dancila Cabinet convenes in solemn meeting in Alba Iulia, passes Agreement for supporting Education. Prime Minister signs Alba Iulia Resolution: We call on Romanian nation to open new century of real unity

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and the members of her cabinet convened in a solemn meeting to celebrate the National Day of Romania in the centennial year of the Greater Union of December 1, 1918, in Alba Iulia on Thursday. The meeting took at the Alba Carolina Fortress, the Union Hall. At the end of the meeting, Dancila participated in the signing ceremony of agreements between the government and the teacher’s trade unions as well as between the government and the Federation of Construction Employers. She then signed the Carolina Fortress guestbook. The solemn meeting of the government was preceded by a visit by Premier Dancila to the Union Monument in Alba Iulia and a meeting with Archbishop Irineu Pop of Alba Iulia. At the same time, she attended a wreath laying ceremony at Mihai Viteazul’s equestrian statue.   Government passes Agreement for supporting Education     The agreement between the Government and the Federation of Representative Education Trade Unions, under which the Government pledges to take action to support education, in keeping with the priority role of this area, provided for in the government program, was adopted on Thursday, by memorandum, in a solemn meeting in Alba Iulia. According to a Government release, the agreement was signed by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and the leaders of the representative education trade unions: Anton Hadar, Alma Mater National Federation Trade Union President, Simion Hancescu, President of the Federation of Education Free Unions, and Marius Nistor, President of the Spiru Haret Education Union. The agreement has in view increasing the funding for education by at least 15pct annually compared to the previous year’s budget so as to reach at least 6pct of GDP and “bringing forward to 1 September 2020 the salary increase planned until 2022”. The document provides for “the granting of two gross salary per year for personal development and teaching materials” and “the granting of up to 5,000 euro for the purchase and modernization of a dwelling, as well as the purchasing of the necessary land for the construction, for teachers in rural areas.” According to the agreement, teachers with an actual education service of at least 30 years “receive six gross average salaries at retirement”. The text approved by the Government also stipulates “the setting up of a single development account through which all universities can start / complete investment projects” and “the construction of at least 1,000 kindergartens with a sports program”.   The Executive  approves establishment of “Unirea” Agri-Food Trade Office   The government approved on Thursday the establishment of the Romanian Agri-Food Trade Office “Unirea”, a trading company tasked with creating a national mechanism to ensure the purchase, sorting, primary processing, standardization and distribution to domestic or export trade networks of agri-food products, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) announced in a release. The new entity is designed to make a pro-active contribution to the implementation of the national agricultural policy by capitalizing in an integrated and comprehensive manner on Romania’s agricultural potential, in keeping with the strategic directions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy and the provisions of the Governing Program. The Agri-Food Trade Office is based on three structuring and development pillars: a nationwide network of agricultural clusters that will integrate the local agricultural production resources and specific services in one or several Administrative Territorial Units, and will incorporate at least one product collection/distribution center. “The basic function of the local cluster is to provide farmers with quality inputs (seed material, seedlings, livestock breeds, agro-chemical products, mechanization services, human and financial resources), but also to ensure the purchase on the spot, for a fair market price, of all the resulting agricultural products,” the release states. Another pillar is represented by a network of regional silage, storage and industrial processing centres, the basic function of such a centre being that of ensuring the proper sorting, packaging and storage of agricultural products in the quantities, assortments and quality required for their rhythmical promotion in domestic commercial networks, but also their quota amounts for major export operations. Both the market’s supply with fresh quality products and the products’ added value through industrial processing and preservation methods will be monitored in these centres. The creation of a national store network is also envisaged, mainly in high-consumption centers, capable of supplying the domestic market with home-grown fresh and processed agri-food products, thus contributing to balancing sectoral trade. The Romanian Agri-Food Trade Office “Unirea” will promote strategic orientations such as: the intensive integration of research & innovation results and best practices in all processes, including by capitalizing on Romania’s rich tradition in this field; attracting the farmers into the regulated and taxed economic circuit and stimulating the associative milieu; the full computerization of processes from production to management, including the implementation of a functional system to ensure the traceability of specific products; increasing skills and specialization in agri-food production and processing, thus contributing to the development of the sectoral labor market. The company’s entry into the economic circuit can ensure a higher efficiency and effectiveness of support to Romanian farmers and products in foreign markets, but can also satisfy the domestic market’s demand, MADR notes.   Alba Iulia Resolution: We call on Romanian nation to open new century of real unity   The Government calls on the Romanian nation, at the opening of a “new century of real unity, in the fullest brotherly harmony, in tolerance and good neighborliness,” reads the Alba Iulia Resolution, signed by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila. “For the future that is laid out in front of us, we have the sacred duty of defending and enriching the treasure trove of the Greater Union received from our forefathers. We thus call forth, in the year of the nation’s Centennial, all Romanians to continue, with brotherly unity, the historic construction of the Greater Romania cathedral. 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