agriculture minister

Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara told a news conference Saturday it is inadmissible Romania has come to import milk and dairy products that aren’t always of the highest quality.

Romania’s Finance Ministry will unblock all 2009 overdue subsidies to farmers by Friday, Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said Thursday after a meeting with agriculture sector unionists and Agriculture Minister Mihai Dumitru.

Romanian European Commission expert Mihai Dumitru might be nominated agriculture minister, following democrat liberal Orest Onofrei’s decision to give up his position as agriculture minister-designate, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX Sunday.

Romanian democrat liberal lawmaker Orest Onofrei, designated as agriculture minister in the future Government, said Saturday evening he plans to give up the nomination following new accusations regarding his involvement in a car accident that caused the death of a eight-year-old child.