Ministrul Economiei şi Finanţelor, Varujan Vosganian, a declarat, luni, că respinge solicitarea sindicatelor privind creşterea salariului minim pe economiei la 540 lei pentru că nu au fost îndeplinite criteriile privind ţinta de inflaţie şi productivitatea muncii.

“Rămân la poziţia iniţială. Pentru creşterea salariului minim trebuie îndeplinite trei condiţii, dar a fost realizată doar una“, a spus Vosganian la un seminar pe tema poluării mediului.

El a precizat că cele trei criterii care trebuie îndeplinite pentru ca salariul minim să urce sunt nivelul Produsului Intern Brut (PIB), inflaţia şi productivitatea, din care doar nivelul PIB a fost realizat.

“Este nevoie de un protocol între patronate şi sindicate, prin care sindicatele să justifice prin productivitate creşterea salariului (…) BNR trebuie să valideze că suntem în ţinta de inflaţie”, a spus ministrul.

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Preţul de vânzare cu amănuntul al unui pachet de ţigări va creşte în medie cu 40 de bani (4.000 lei vechi), de la 1 iulie, când acciza totală va fi majorată la 50 de euro/1.000 de ţigarete, faţă de 41,5 euro în prezent, au declarat pentru MEDIAFAX surse din Ministerul Economiei şi Finanţelor.

Finanţele au stabilit că acciza specifică va fi de 27,31 euro/1.000 de ţigarete, la care se adăugă o acciză ad valorem de 25% aplicată preţului de vânzare cu amănuntul.

Acciza minimă va creşte cu 6 euro, la 45,5 euro/1.000 de ţigarete (152,72 lei/1.000 de ţigarete). Acciza minimă reprezintă 91% din acciza plătită pentru categoria de ţigări cea mai bine vândută, respectiv categoria premium începând din acest an.

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Dacia a lansat, marti, modelul Sandero in Romania, cu preturi cuprinse intre 6.890 euro si 9.850(cu toate taxele incluse) si trei ani garantie sau 100.000 km.

Noul model este disponibil in cinci versiuni de echipare: Sandero, Ambiance, Préférence, Laureate si Prestige. Sandero este primul vehicul din gama Dacia care afiseaza noul logo al marcii.

Modelul are lungime 4,02 m, latime 1,75 m si ampatament de 2,59 m, iar portbagajul are capacitate de 320 litri). Emisiile de CO2 sunt reduse, iar costurile de reparatie si intretinere foarte scazute.

Pentru inceput, Dacia propune variantele de motorizare pe benzina, 1.4 l 75 CP si 1.6 l 90 CP, urmand ca anul viitor sa fie disponibile si motorizarile diesel.
Noul model dispune, printre altele, de airbag sofer, ABS si AFU (asistenta la franarea de urgenta), 3 centuri de siguranta spate reglabile pe inaltime, pre-echipare radio si bancheta rabatabila.

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Creştinii ortodocşi serbează azi Înălţarea Domnului, la 40 de zile de la Înviere, zi în care în toate bisericile, mănăstirile şi catedrale ortodoxe din ţară şi străinătate sunt pomeniţi eroii români, potrivit Patriarhiei Române.

Slujbele de pomenire vor fi oficiate după Sfânta Liturghie şi la cimitirele, troiţele şi monumentele dedicate cinstirii eroilor neamului.

Prin hotărârile Sfântului Sinod al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române din anii 1999 şi 2001, sărbătoarea Înălţării Domnului a fost consacrată ca Zi a Eroilor şi Sărbătoare Naţională Bisericească. Totodată, Legea 379/2003, privind regimul mormintelor şi operelor comemorative de război a proclamat cea de-a patruzecea zi de la Sfintele Paşti, sărbătoarea Înălţării Mântuitorului Iisus Hristos, Ziua Eroilor, potrivit tradiţiei, ca Sărbătoare Naţională a românilor, se arată într-un comunicat al Patriarhiei.

În mesajul transmis cu această ocazie, Patriarhul Daniel a spus că în această zi “se cuvine ca mormintele eroilor şi martirilor noştri să nu rămână fără lumânări şi fără flori prin care ne exprimăm recunoştinţa şi iubirea rugăciunii mai tare decât moartea, adică legătura neîntreruptă cu cei care şi-au dăruit viaţa lor în trecut pentru existenţa noastră de astăzi”.

Înălţarea Mântuitorului s-a petrecut la 40 de zile după Învierea Sa din morţi. După ce Iisus Hristos a înviat şi s-a arătat ucenicilor Săi, încredinţându-i de realitatea actului învierii Sale, s-a ridicat la Cer de pe muntele Eleonului (Măslinilor) din Betania, a explicat preotul Bogdan Teleanu, de la Biroul de presă al Patriarhiei.

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JERUSALEM - Israel handed over a convicted Hezbollah spy to Lebanon on Sunday and in a surprise move the Islamic guerrilla group turned over what it said were the body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in a 2006 war.

The Hezbollah gesture, along with recent comments by its leader, signaled that a larger prisoner exchange could be in the works between the two bitter enemies.

Israel said publicly that Sunday’s exchanges were unrelated to a deal that would include Israel releasing the longest-serving Lebanese prisoner and Hezbollah setting free two soldiers captured in a 2006 cross-border raid that sparked a monthlong war.

But a senior Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said a deal was in the making, even though there was no timetable for completing it.

Israeli authorities released Nasim Nisr, an Israeli of Lebanese descent after he completed a six-year sentence for espionage and drove him from a prison in central Israel to the northern Rosh Hanikra crossing.

Hezbollah official Wafik Safa told the group’s al-Manar TV station that it handed over a brown box containing what it said were the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the war.

Nasrallah has boasted in the past that he holds the arms and legs of Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli army said the remains would undergo forensic examination.

Helge Kvam, a Red Cross spokesman in Jerusalem, called Hezbollah’s move a "complete surprise," and the Israeli military said the move was not coordinated.

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The stage is set for the biggest ever event to be held in Serbia.

The final of the Eurovision Song Contest will have a television audience of millions, while thousands will be at the venue itself in the capital.

”People are smiling more, you see locals walking around looking much happier than normal,” Belgrade artist Predrag Miladinovic says.

“Eurovision has given us a good energy.”

In the main shopping street, Predrag sells comic pictures of Slavic men with big moustaches alongside Eurovision t-shirts.

With the spotlight on Serbia, he hopes that for visitors the competition will improve the country’s tarnished image.

”Foreigners are able to see a different face of Serbia. They will understand that we are different to what they imagine,” he says.

”We have a big crisis here in Serbia but we are glad to host Eurovision and to show that we should be part of Europe,” 23-year-old Yelena says, who is one of the army of volunteers working at the contest.

Many people in Western Europe may sneer at the cheesy glitz and dubious performances associated with Eurovision.

Eurovision week kicked off with an open air concert in the grounds of an ancient fortress.

It featured acts mostly from the east, including Ruslana, the Ukrainian winner of Eurovision in 2004.

For many of those watching the concert, there is a sense of pride about putting on the Eurovision competition.

”We hope that people who come will see the beauty of our country and take the best of Serbia to their country,” Dejan, a student from Belgrade, says.

Belgrade is famous in the region for being the party capital of the Balkans. This is something which is being heavily promoted.

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Safari users are at risk of littering their desktops with malicious software because the browser does not ask for user permission when downloading files in the way that Firefox and Internet Explorer do, a security researcher said Thursday.

"Apple does not feel this is an issue they want to tackle at this time," he writes.

An Apple representative told Dhanjani that an "enhancement request" for an "Ask me before downloading anything" preference would be filed with the Safari team. "Please note that we are not treating this as a security issue, but a further measure to raise the bar against unwanted downloads," the Apple representative wrote in an e-mail to Dhanjani.

That issue, coupled with the fact that Safari doesn’t warn users when a local resource, such as an HTML file, attempts to invoke client-side scripting, creates a risky situation for most browser users, Dhanjani said in an interview. "People are starting to expect more from browsers today," he said.

The Apple representative told him that the company has been "investigating the potential for a ’safe’ mode for local HTML."

Meanwhile, Apple does plan to fix a high-risk security vulnerability that Dhanjani discovered. It could be used to remotely steal local files from a user’s file system.

An Apple spokesman did not return a phone call and e-mail seeking comment.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jenna Bush picked “You Are So Beautiful,” the ballad made famous by Joe Cocker, for the father-daughter dance with President Bush at her wedding reception Saturday night in Texas, the band leader said.

Tyrone Smith of Nashville and his 10-piece party band, The Tyrone Smith Revue, were hired to play at the reception in Crawford.

The band was asked to do “Lovin’ in My Baby’s Eyes” by Taj Mahal for the newlyweds’ first dance. Smith spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday about the music plans, on the condition that the reporter honor a request by the Bush family not to release the information before the wedding.

Smith, who also played at one of the 2005 Bush inaugural balls at the Washington Convention Center, normally coaxes his audience members onstage to dance. He planned to make the president a target Saturday night.

“If he’s around and the party’s going, I’ll get him up,” Smith said. “I can’t imagine him ducking out.”

Smith, who witnessed the wedding ceremony, said afterward the groom was dressed in a dark blue suit with powder-blue tie and the bride wore a “very simple and elegant” white dress, but did not wear a veil.

Smith said Jenna Bush’s paternal grandparents, President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, spoke during the wedding, though he could not hear their comments.

Smith planned to play “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang as the newlyweds arrived at the reception about 7 p.m. CDT in a tent on the 1,600-acre family ranch in Crawford. He said the band would begin to play around 10 p.m. CDT, then break while the attendees have dinner, then resume and play until around 1 a.m.

“It’ll be a ‘get down’ party,” Smith promised.

The band planned to do its usual show, which normally includes covers of “Proud Mary,” “Play That Funky Music,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Crazy in Love,” “Hey Ya!,” “Brick House,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and others.

“If anyone’s in sight, I’ll get them up onstage,” Smith said.

Smith and his band have played at fraternity parties, nightclubs and weddings across the South for more than 20 years. He plays an average of two weddings a month.

Jenna Bush saw him play in Texas a few years ago and invited him to perform at the White House Christmas party in 2003, when he led those attending in a conga line through the State Floor. The president had already gone to bed.

Smith, also known as Super T, said he later received a voice mail from a White House secretary who told him it was “the party of the millennium.”

Jenna Bush and her fiance, Henry Hager, got engaged in August after dating for several years. Hager has been a White House aide and worked on Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004. His father is a former lieutenant governor of Virginia.

Smith, whose style onstage is a cross between James Brown and Michael Jackson, grew up in Memphis with Maurice White, who later co-founded Earth, Wind & Fire.

“It’s very exciting to play for the (Bush) family a third time. I’m overwhelmed,” Smith said

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DUJIANGYAN, China - The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China’s worst earthquake in three decades.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, and 18,645 were still buried in debris in the city of Mianyang, near the epicenter of Monday’s massive, 7.9-magnitude quake.

The Sichuan Daily newspaper reported on its Web site that more than 26,000 people were injured in Mianyang.

The numbers of casualties was expected to rise due to the remoteness of the areas affected by the quake and difficulty in finding buried victims.

There was little prospect that many survivors would be found under the rubble. Only 58 people were extricated from demolished buildings across the quake area so far, China Seismological Bureau spokesman Zhang Hongwei told Xinhua. In one county, 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed.

Rain was impeding efforts and a group of paratroopers called off a rescue mission to the epicenter due to heavy storms, Xinhua reported.

More than two dozen British and American tourists who were thought to be panda-watching in the area also remained missing.

Officials urged the public not to abandon hope.

“Survivors can hold on for some time. Now it’s not time to give up,” Wang Zhenyao, disaster relief division director at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, told reporters in Beijing.

Premier Wen Jiabao, who rushed to the area to oversee rescue efforts, said a push was on to clear roads and restore electricity as soon as possible. His visit to the disaster scene was prominently featured on state TV, a gesture meant to reassure people that the ruling party was doing all it could.

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