Parliamentary questions | Daniel Buda – Europarlamentar

Predicament of livestock farmers

The deregulation of the milk market has seen a sharp drop in the price of livestock, to the extent that a cow is now worth the […]

Poultry farmers want shelf charges to be scrapped in crisis periods

Poultry farmers are unhappy about the charges they pay to supermarkets and want these to be scrapped in crisis periods. The price of grain has started […]

13.5 job seekers for each job vacancy

According to data from the Romanian Institute of Statistics, both the number of jobs and the number of people unemployed are on the rise. One reason […]

Emigration of the Romanian labour force

Romania is expected to see a mass migration of its populace to other, more developed, countries. These will not just be secondary school leavers, but also […]

Cybersecurity

Romania is a vulnerable country in terms of the security of its national cyberspace. In the field of legislation governing use of the Internet, Romania has […]

Sheep and goat farmers object to the law on hunting

Sheep and goat farmers have again complained that their private property rights are being infringed. Under the new provisions of the law on hunting, which was […]

Increasingly less milk being delivered to dairies

This year, the volume of milk collected from farms and taken to dairies has decreased by 7.8% in the first half of the year compared with […]

Globalisation

The security implications of globalisation relate to both the new risks and threats arising in this connection, as well as the various opportunities created as a […]

Romania’s population on the decrease

According to the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics, Romania’s stable population was estimated at 19 596 372 on 1 March 2015, decreasing by 32 851 compared to […]

Risk of falling oil prices fuelling civil unrest

The collapse of oil prices has raised major security issues in countries largely dependent to a on the export of this commodity. With oil prices down […]

Priority action to assist beef producers

Following the Russian embargo and the fall in pig meat prices, many pig farms would have gone bankrupt without access to private meat storage facilities. While, […]

Romanian textile industry sheds one-quarter of its total workforce

The rise of the Asian markets and the financial crisis have led to massive restructuring of textile, clothing and footwear sector, resulting in around 77 000 […]

Food waste

Recent studies show that approximately 22 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the European Union, while 925 million people around the world are exposed to the […]

The reconversion of vine plantations

Romania’s National Support Programme for the wine sector 2014-2018 has been amended by a draft order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, in the […]

More assistance for veterinarians

Veterinary medicine is of great importance to farming sector as a whole, which depends on the quality of veterinary services and training and on effective communication […]

Pollution generated by civil aviation

The toxic emissions of aircraft cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Until recently, it was thought that the emissions of airplanes polluted strictly the areas around the […]