The governing coalition is ready to nominate Dan Ciolos for the Agriculture portfolio at the next European Commission. Elsewhere in the news, the crises evaporated the job offers: the rate of vacancies is lower than 1%. Last but not least, Tigareta II (Cigarette II) was an arms operation at Otopeni airport in Bucharest and President Traian Basescu knew about it.
The governing coalition is ready to nominate Dan Ciolos for the Agriculture portfolio at the next European Commission, Foreign Affairs minister Cristian Diaconescu declared for Radio Romania Actualitati, Cotidianul reads. Dan Ciolos is ex-Agriculture minister. Diaconescu said there will be impediments in Romania's attempt to secure the European Agriculture portfolio, because it is a prestigious one. "Not all EU countries are interested in Romania getting this portfolio", minister Diaconescu opinionated.
Diaconescu said Romania will use its politico-diplomatic network to get the agriculture portfolio. He underlined the importance of the candidate being supported by both coalition parties. According to him, the Swedish EU Presidency announced Romania that the list with the commissioners to be approved by the European Parliament will be completed around October 25-26.
The crises evaporated job offers, Evenimentul Zilei informs. The Romanian National Statistics Institute (INS) data shows that the rate of vacancies continued to drop from April to June. The vacancy rate was 0.89%, a lower figure compared with 1.27%, the rate for the first quarter, and against 2.02% - the figure for Q2 in 2008.
The most important demand was experienced in the health and social services departments (4.05%), followed by public administration (1.89%), and professional, scientific and technical activities (1.20%). On the other hand, one can hardly get any job in extractive industry, real es