Netopia blazes trail for mobilPay application in Romania

Economic

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

• Infrastructure : Dan Sova: Many investors are interested in Transylvania area
• Construction of Underground Mainline V partially funded from sale of greenhouse gas emission allowances
• Trade: Romania running positive balance of poultry meat trade, 2012 exports top 250 ml euros
• Honey exports, up 16pct in 2012
• Real Estate: Rising number of building authorizations for houses in first months of 2013
• Romanian state, through FNGCIMM, funds First Home Programme by 3.180 bn euros
• Tourism: Orthodox Easter in Bucovina!
• A five-star hotel was opened in Bucharest with an investment of 10 mil.euro
• The Russians come to Romania for mountain tourism, the Italians prefer the Capital and the Albanians prefer spa tourism
• Minister Grapini: We are conducting impact study on tourism brand
• Tourism experts, to participate in drawing-up NRDP for 2014-2020
• Agriculture : Agriculture Minister: Romania drew almost 4.8 billion euros from EU funds on rural development
• AgriMin Constantin: Producers fraudulently labelling their products organic or bio to be drastically penalised
• State to give over 116 mln lei in aid to farm producers for 2012-13
• Romania stays in top ten wine consumer worldwide ranking, with 22-24 litres per capita
• Romania tops EU by maize-grown area, ranking 3rd by 2012 production
• First agricultural mutual fund likely to be set up by end-June
• Fraudulent products labeled 'organic' or 'bio' will be stopped
• Cars: Environment Minister Rovana Plumb: We will, for sure, implement the Scrappage program since April 15
• Healthcare: Co-payment for hospital care came into force Monday, April 1
• Telecom.IT : Bitdefender: cyber attacks on high number of institutions, increasingly more aggressive
• Netopia blazes trail for mobilPay application in Romania