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First paediatric oncology and radiotherapy hospital has started în Bucharest
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The construction of Romania's first paediatric oncology and radiotherapy hospital has started, the representatives of the Give Life Association announced on Thursday, mentioning that the building is due for completion in November 2018 and the facility could be fully functional in 2019. With an estimated investment of 8,000,000 euro and a fundraising campaign started in 2015, the Give Life Association raised nearly half of the amount, obtained all the ...
Romania continues to contribute the lowest spend on healthcare in the EU
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
This year, it was announced that Romania is set to overhaul its outdated healthcare model and place significant investment within its ongoing services. However, the country continues to contribute the lowest spend on healthcare within the European Union (EU), with an expenditure of €388 per inhabitant, as reported ...
Infrastructure: Eurostat: EU’s commercial aircraft fleet – 6,500 in 2015. Romania – 39pc of the aircraft older than 20 years
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Air transport operators in the European Union (EU) had in total over 6,500 aircraft, used for passengers or freight, in 2015. These excluded piston planes, helicopters and aircrafts with maximum take-off weight less than 2,600 kg, Eurostat informs quoted by romaniajournal.ro. From the total EU aircraft fleet, around a fifth (21%) of the aircraft were aged less than 5 years, while 17% were 20 years old or more. Almost a third of the aircraft (30%) were ...
Commission urges ROMANIA to correctly transpose EU legislation establishing a single European railway area
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The European Commission decided today to send a letter of formal notice to Romania due to shortcomings in the application of the EU rules establishing a single European railway area (Directive 2012/34/EU). ...
Henri Coanda International Airport, among the first five European airports, the highest rise in air traffic
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The Airports Council International ranked Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest among the first five European airports to have recorded the highest rise in air traffic in the first ten months of 2017, informs the Bucharest National Airport Company in a press release .According to the ranking released on Thursday, in the 10-25 million-passenger per year airport category, Henri Coanda Airport ranked fifth with a 16.7 percent increase in air ...
Real Estate: Analysis. Romania’s real estate market prepares for busy 2018
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
With the real estate investment volume set to reach EUR 1 billion next year, consultants say the demand for projects will remain high across the board, with a focus on the office segment, business-review.eu reads. The market might see more deals in niche sectors like hotels, while the overall attractiveness of Romanian property will also be bolstered by higher yields than the rest of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The property sector will likely see ...
Tourism: Radisson Hotel Bucharest sold for 170 million euros
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Elbit Imaging, holding 98.2% of shares of Radisson Hotel complex in Bucharest, announced that it had signed the sale of shares for 169.2 million euros, according to a press release issued on Wednesday by Nasdaq exchange in the United States. “Elbit Imaging announced that its subsidiary had signed the final sale of 98.2% of shares owned in the company that owns Radisson Hotel complex in Bucharest, for 169.2 million euros,” the press release ...
The tourists’ overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception increased by 6.8% in October 2017
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, both the arrivals and the overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception with functions of tourists’ accommodation increased by 8.7 % and by 6.8 %, respectively, in October 2017. Compared to October 2016, in October 2017 customs registered an increase in both the arrivals of foreign visitors of 25.5 % and in the departures abroad of ...
Dragos Anastasiu: Labour force and lack of fiscal predictability, main worries in tourist industry
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Labour force deficit and the lack of fiscal predictability represent the main worries of the tourist industry, said Dragos Anastasiu, the founder of Eurolines Romania Group, at a press conference on Thursday. “The main problem of Romania and of our industry at present, is labour force, human resources. We could develop in the hotel area and in the travel agency area too, we have everything we need to do it at an accelerated rate, from finance to ...
Tourism: Number of tourists choosing Romania will exceed 12 millions in 2017
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Romanian tourism has grown by 10% in 2017, according to official data, while the total number of tourists choosing Romania is estimated to exceed 12 millions this year, a value which has not been reached since 1990, says Adrian Voican, first vice-president of the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT). According to him, the number of foreign tourists will reach a record of over 2.6 millions. “In the first nine ...
Ana Hotels is the best hotel company of the year
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Based on the economic results obtained, Ana Hotels company maintained its top position in the category Big Enterprises in Tourism - Hotels and other similar facilities in the Top of Companies made by the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Romania. The top rewards, at national level, based on a complex, transparent and unitary methodology, the most performing commercial companies in Romania, from the main domains of economic ...
Romanian tourists spend about 9.4 million euro in Romania on December 1 mini-holiday
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The over 88,000 Romanian tourists who left to various destinations in Romania on the December 1 mini-holiday spent approximately 9.4 million euro on accommodation and meals, according to an analysis provided by the Romanian Tourism Employer's Associations Federation (FPTR). "For the first time after 1989, the domestic city break packages were better sold than those abroad, which shapes a new trend in Romanian tourism. Tourists benefited from the up to ...
Telecom.IT: Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania take pre-orders for Huawei Mate 10 Pro
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Orange Romania and Vodafone Romania started taking pre-orders for Huawei Mate 10 Pro, telecompaper.com informs. The smartphone will be delivered starting from 4 December. Without a contractual obligation, the smartphone costs EUR ...
68.6 percent of households have internet access
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Computer-equipped households this year account for 65.6 percent of the total, and 68.6 percent have internet access, shows data released by the National Statistics Institute (INS). A survey on the population's access to IT & C technology has found a quite considerable difference as regards computer ownership depending on the residential environment, as 75.9 percent of urban households are computer-equipped, while the computer ownership rate in rural areas ...
Postpaid grows to over half of Romanian mobile customers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The number of active mobile telephony customers in Romania was down 1.5 percent year-on-year to 22.2 million at the end of June, according to data from telecommunications authority Ancom, telecompaper.com reports. The number of postpaid customers continued to grow in H1, up 7 percent to 11.8 million, at the expense of active prepaid cards, which decreased 10 percent to a total of 10.4 million. The trend of more postpaid customers started in 2016 ...
Broadcasting services of audiovisual programs: over 7.3 million subscribers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Some 98% of all households in Romania benefited in the first half of this year from paid re-broadcasting services of audiovisual programmes, with over 7.3 million subscribers, on the rise by 2.5% over the same period in 2016, show the statistics with the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), made public on Wednesday. According to the cited data, most subscribers (4.9 million) are cable ones, 2.4 million are ...
Agriculture: Romania, the eighth farming power in EU in 2016
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The EU farm yield was worth 405 billion euros in 2016, 2.8% smaller than in 2015, the member states with the biggest total farm yield being France (73 billion euros or 17% of EU total), Italy (53.4 billion euros or 13%), and Germany (52.9 billion euros or 13%) according to data published by Eurostat on Wednesday. Similar figures were recorded by Spain (46.8 billion euros or 12%), Great Britain (27.9 billion euros or 7%), Holland (27billion euros or ...
Infrastructure: Neamt- Bacau road axe to be rehabilitated with 184.5 million lei
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Neamt-Bacau road axe will be rehabilitated and modernized with European funds through the Regional Operational Program, according to a Ministry of Regional Development, Public Administration and European Funds press release. Marius Nica, the delegate minister for European Funds, signed a financing contract for the North-East Region - Neamt Bacau strategic road axe. With an overall value of 184.6 million lei, of which 175.6 ...
Corina Cretu: Romania has over 5 billion euros at its disposal in Large Infrastructure Operational Program
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Romania has over 5 billion euros at its disposal as part of the Large Infrastructure program, but it needs realistic planning, detailed preparation and efficient implementation of transport projects, to efficiently absorb this amount, said Corina Cretu, the European commissioner for regional policy, who met Felix Stroe, the Romanian transport minister in Brussels. Cretu pointed out the need that the Transport Ministry should have a leading role ...
Iasi Airport exceeds 1 million passengers this year
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Iasi International Airport marked one million passengers, for the first time in history. The same day, the airport recorded another first in passenger traffic. Over 100,000 passengers used Iasi Airport services over June-October every month, August being the period with most passengers in the airport history - 125,605 passengers, 280% more than in the same period of ...