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Trade: Biggest online retailer in Romania sets date for 2017 Black Friday
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Romania’s biggest online retailer eMAG will hold this year’s Black Friday shopping event on Friday, November 17, one week before the official Black Friday in the US, romania-insider.com ...
Healthcare: Specialist: 90% death rate among Romanian patients affected by cerebrovascular accidents
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
In Romania, the death rate among people affected by cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) reaches 90%, since access to new medical technologies used to prevent CVA is below European standards and investments for prevention and detection are low. The Economist Intelligence Unit report shows that the coordination of several types of actions is crucial to reduce the incidence of CVA, shows Marius Geanta, the president of the ...
Dr. Viorel Goleanu: Unfortunately, pediatric heart surgery in Romania is in deficit
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Dr.Viorel Goleanu, the president of the Romanian Cardiovascular Surgery Society, heart surgeon at “Agrippa Ionescu” Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, said that unfortunately pediatric heart surgery in Romania is in great deficit and progress recorded in the field has been rather slow. Dr. Goleanu ...
Agriculture: Sales of farmland: Commission issues guidelines to Member States
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The European Commission has recently (October 12) issued guidance to help Member States protect agricultural land from threats such as excessive price speculation and ownership concentration, a press release informs. EU Member States have the right to restrict sales of farmland to preserve agricultural communities and promote sustainable agriculture. But in doing so they must comply with EU law, in particular rules on free movement of capital. In 2015, ...
Real Estate: Poland’s MLP Group to build logistics park in Romania
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
MLP Group, a leading developer of warehousing space on the Polish market, will build through its subsidiary MLP Bucharest West SRL, new logistics park on the Romanian market, romaniajournal.ro informs. According to a press release, the development project will be executed in Bucharest’s western outskirts near Chitila (Ilfov county), on an 18.8-hectare plot of land. “The warehousing business in Romania is clustered ...
Over 450,000 sales of real estate properties, in the first nine months
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
In the first nine months of 2017 were recorded in the whole of the country 451,072 sales of real estate properties, most tradings being recorded in Bucharest – 57,116, Cluj – 30,533, and Ilfov – 26,582 informs the National Agency of Cadaster and Real Estate Publicity. The counties with the fewest real estate sold during the same period are Salaj 0 2,961, Gorj 0 3,436and Caras-Severin – 2,677. In ...
Cars : Adviser of the prime-minister : almost a quarter of the exports of Romania is insured by the auto industry
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Almost a quarter of the exports of Romania is insured by the auto industry, that is why this sector must be encouraged, and the government took a series of measures in this sense, stated on Tuesday Florin Vodita, state adviser of the prime minister, in a specialty conference. ‘The auto industry has a tradition in Romania which is a bit special. Almost a quarter of the exports of Romania is insured by the auto industry. That is why together with ...
ACEA: Sales of vehicles Dacia in Europe increased with almost 24%in September
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The sales of Dacia recorded in September an advance of 23.8% in Europe ( EU plus the EFTA countries) and the market share of the auto constructors increased from 2.3% to 2.4% according to the statistics of the Association of European Constructors of Vehicles (ACEA) published on Tuesday. Registration of Dacia in Europe was last month 35,648 units, up against September 2016 (33,824 units).EFTA is made up of four states: Island, Liechtenstein, Norway and ...
Renault's Caracatzanis: Romania's automotive industry mentioned as positive example at European level
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Romania's automotive industry is a positive example at European level, with 206,000 jobs created over the past 20 years, Yves Caracatzanis, general manager of Groupe Renault Romania and chairman of the Romanian Automotive Partnership (PAR), said Tuesday. "Romania's automotive industry is a positive example at European level because 206,000 jobs have been ...
Romania's 9-mo new passenger car registrations rise 15.9%
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
New car registrations increased in Romania in the first nine months of the year by almost 16%, to 78,769 units, compared to the same period in 2016, but the number of used car registrations was some five times higher, having reached 378,424 units, according to the statistics with the Driving License and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV). In September 2017, the new car registrations stood at 10,425 units, up 11.37% over the same period of the ...
Tourism : THE CAPACITY OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION1 INCREASED BY 4.5% COMPARED TO THE SAME DATE OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Tourist accommodation capacity increased 4.5 per cent January through July 2017, compared with the same period of 2016, from 328,900 accommodation units last year up to 343,700, according to data made available by the National Institute of Statistics on Friday.The number of tourist accommodation establishments reached up to 7,905 units on July 31, 2017, showing a 13.8 percent growth since July 2016, when the number was 6,946. As many as 34 per ...
Healthcare: PM Tudose: the health system is "a little" sick and needs to get better
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Premier Mihai Tudose stated on Friday in Deva, that the health system is "a little" sick and needs to get better, being ill-adjusted to the quality of the medical staff working in it. He communicated that last days he had talks with the unions of the ...
European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis: Romania made some good things by implementing the national health card
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis, who is on a visit in Bucharest, stated on Thursday that Romania made some good things by implementing the national health card, but there is still a need to improve the access to the sanitary system. He said that the healthcare system reform is important and recommendations made in the European Semester Process must be implemented. He mentioned that Romania made some good things by ...
Infrastructure : Wizz Air to launch three routes from Romania, Moldova to Athens
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air said on Monday it will start to fly to Greece's Athens from Romania's Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca and Moldova's Chisinau in March 2018, seenews.com informs. Wizz Air will fly from Bucharest every day of the week, while flights from Cluj will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays, the company said in a press release. From Chisinau, Wizz Air will operate flights twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. In August, Wizz ...
Italian-Japanese consortium to build the suspended bridge over the Danube
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Italian construction group Astaldi SpA, one of the biggest European construction companies, and Japan-based IHI Infrastructure Systems CO have won the project to build the suspended bridge over the Danube, from Braila, the biggest contract for an infrastructure project attributed in the last 27 years, worth RON 1.99 billion, Romanian Ministry of Transports announced , romaniajournal.ro informs. Once built, the construction also known as Braila-Tulcea ...
Minister Misa: World Bank will finance Ploiesti-Brasov highway
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Romanian Minister of Finance Ionut Misa was recently in Washington where he announced that the World Bank will start its first technical mission regarding Ploiesti-Brasov highway on October 30, business-review.eu reports. The Ploiesti-Brasov highway is part of A3 highway. It will measure 600 kilometers and it will link Bucharest to the Hungarian border. Misa attended the annually meeting of the International Monetary Fund ...
Telecom. IT : ANCOM: 4.256 million phone numbers switched networks în 9 years
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
More than 4.256 million phone numbers switched networks, but not the user, in the 9 years since the portability service was rolled out, the National Communications Administration and Regulation Authority (ANCOM) announced on Thursday. Since ...
Trade: GfK study: Romanian consumers’ purchase intention up in Q3
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Although the Romanians’ expectations on economy and revenues varied unsignificantly, due to the inflation drop and VAT reduction, the Romanian consumers’ purchase intention has grown in the third quarter of this year, according to a GfK study quoted by business-review.eu. The purchase intention registered the biggest variation, as at the beginning of the quarter it maintained at the level of previous period, but in September it increased to ...
Real estate: Apartments more expensive by 30% compared to 2014
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
In September, the average amount requested for apartments sold at national level - both new and old- grew by 1.9%, from 1,141 euros per square meter at end of August to 1,163 euros/sq.m , according to a study made by Imobiliare.ro. The present price is 30.5% over the lowest value noted since the beginning of the crisis, 891 euros per square meter, in December 2014. The most significant advance was recorded in Cluj Napoca. In ...
Second quarter of 2017 : House prices up by 3.8% in the euro area - Up by 4.4% in the EU
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 3.8% in the euro area and by 4.4% in the EU in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Compared with the first quarter of 2017, house prices rose by 1.5% in the euro area and by 1.8% in the EU in the second quarter of 2017. House price developments in the EU ...