Events of 2018

Mrs. Sorina Pintea, the Minister of Health of Romania paid a visit to the MIC & Associates offices on Thursday, September 27. The event coincided with her presentation at the UN World Health Organization in New York during the same week. Minister Pintea was accompanied by professor Alexandru Rafila, Chief...

The Healthcare Forum organized by MIC & Associates in partnersip with the Romanian-American usiness Council ended on November 8 in New York City after an intense week of panel discussions, one-on -one meetings, hospital visits, presentation, receptions and a dinner gala. Conceived as a partnership between the Ministry of Health...

Wednesday, November 7, a high level MIC delegation formed by over two dozen physicians, a State Secretary and three legislators met with the top brass of Johns Hopkins International Management Team in Baltimore, Maryland. The group included renowned names of Romanian medical establishment such as Fundeni Genera Hospital, Monza Group Hospitals,...

On Wednesday September 13, MIC & Associates President Stefan Minovici met with US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman, in Washington DC during the farewell reception of Romanian ambassador Sorin Ducaru. Mr. Mino MIC & Associates in partnership with RABC (Romanian-American Business Council) – Reception Honoring Eleven Distinguished Members of the...

Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Il) has met with MIC & Associates and RABC leadership in New York on Monday, Sept. 24 to further discuss the Visa Waiver Program for Romania and the current effort in the House of Representatives. The Co-Chair of the Romanian Caucus expressed his determination to further this...

On Monday, July 29, the MIC & Associates leadership met with four Representatives of the United States Congress at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. They were Ted Budd (R-NC), Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Joe Wilson (R-SC). Minus Congressman Wilson, they are all up for reelection in November. Our...

On Tuesday, the Government of Romania, the Ministry of Environment together with the European Economic and Social Committee and the Permanent Mission of Romania hosted a United Nations event entitled “Involving the civil society in the monitoring of the SDGs”. This event aimed at showing how the organized civil society...

H.E. Gratiela Gavrilescu, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment paid an official visit to the MIC & Associates headquarters on July 18, together with one of her predecessors, Hon. Laszlo Borbely, State Counselor and Coordinator for the Department for Sustainable Development for the Government of Romania. They were accompanied...

The two hundred and forty-two Independence Day of the United States was celebrated in Bucharest on the loan of the US embassy on Friday June 29. The event was attended by over one thousand guests, many of them political leaders, diplomats, journalists, mayors and a significant contingent of business people...

As a follow up to the creation of an American Hospital in Romania, Stefan Minovici met on Friday May 29 with H.E. Sorina Pintea, the Romanian health minister. Mrs. Pintea, originally from Baia Mare, is by training an accomplished economist with a significant experience in hospital management. She managed the...

Following the Romanian Day Festival on Sunday – May 20, the MIC & Associates in partnership with RABC organized a Centennial Gala honoring many of its supporters from the United States and Romania. On the settings of the East River and in the shadows of the United Nation Headquarters overlooking Queens,...

The MIC & Associates leadership met Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman of the Appropriation Subcommittee on State & Foreign Operations and of the Senate of Armed Services Committee. He was accompanied by Congressman Joe Wilson, the Assistant Majority Whip, one of the most senior members of the House of...

A celebratory reception on the eve of Romania’s National Day was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Romania to the UN on Friday – December 1st at its Manhattan Headquarters on the East Side. More than 300 guests attended, among them an unprecedented number of ambassadors, as well as senior...

On Thursday March 22nd, Stefan Minovici met with Stefan Gadola President of the Transylvania Business Council to discuss further development of MIC & RABC projects in Cluj, as well as the strong partnership that connects the two organization. Mr. Gadola was also the host of the MIC & RABC reception...

Stefan Minovici (Chairman) and George Naghiu (Managing Director) lead an MIC & RABC delegation that met with the Romanian’s DPM and the Minister of Environment Gratiela Vladescu on Wednesday, March 21st, to discuss new ways to clean up the Romanian environment. The hour-long meeting was attended by the Ministers’ Chief...

The MIC & RABC leadership paid a visit to some of the most important Romanian churches in the Chicago area in order to rally support for the cochairman of the Romanian Caucus, Congressman Daniel Lipinski (D-Il). During the two-day trip, Stefan Minovici and Valentin Pipa met with leaders of the...

Against a backdrop of threatening weather, Romanians have showed up in record numbers along spectators and tourists from over 100 countries to celebrate under what turned out to be a bright and sunny Centennial Anniversary of Romania Day Festival. The special edition of this XIX Festival was honored by the...

MIC & Associates president and RABC founder Stefan Minovici met today on Capitol Hill with the two Co-Chairs of the Romanian Caucus, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH) and Congressman Daniel Lipinski, (D-Il). The main topic of the discussion was the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) and the efforts undertaken by the MIC...

We followed up after the Easter celebration with the Leader of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, The Most Reverend Dr. NATHANIEL (Popp), Archbishop of Detroit of The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. Led by the newly appointed Dean of the Saint Mary’s Orthodox Church of Maspeth – Queens, father...

The Honorable Daniel Lipinski, RABC’s most recent recipient of the 2017 George Pomutz Excellence Award attended a fundraiser event at the home of Dr. Mihaela and Vlad Vladutiu on Fifth Avenue. A select group of MIC & Associates and RABC members attended this special event that was meant to support the re-election...