NEWS OF THE DAY - JULY 25

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin has stated on Friday during a press conference in Alba Iulia (northwest of Bucharest), that 9.3 billion euro, European and state budget funds, are to go towards integration of agricultural production. "My concern is not only to export the grain, the maize, they are the champions of exports, but to integrate production. That is why the next 9.3 billion euro coming from European and state budget funds on Rural Development will go towards integration of production, of priority being those who, beside their vegetal production farm they want to build a zootechnical production farm, those who beside their vegetal production farm they want to have the storage part done too. We still need storage capacity", said the Agriculture Minister. Daniel Constantin has mentioned that presently Romania has the capacity to store approximately 18 million tons of cereal, storage space for 3 of those 18 million tons being done in the past three years by use of European funds.

* The Conservative Party leader Daniel Constantin said during a visit to Alba Iulia (north-west of the capital) on Friday that 'the project called Victor Ponta for President' is the viable project for Romania now. 'I think the people do not very much look at the Left or the Right, as some persons are trying to polarize at present. I think the citizens want a country project, want a political figure able to bring all the social brackets around the same table and I think the time has come, after very many years, 25 years since the (1989 anti-communist) Revolution to have a president capable of working with all the social brackets, with all those who want this country's good and I think Victor Ponta can be that president', Constantin...