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Nicolas Maure: Dacia can still wait a few years for the Pitesti - Sibiu motorway stretch to be built
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Nicolas Maure, CEO of Pitesti-based car manufacturer Dacia, said on Thursday that the company can still wait a few years for the Pitesti - Sibiu motorway stretch to be built, but that the waiting period should be as short as ...
Cars: Dacia's global exports advanced nearly 10 per cent in the first five months of 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Dacia's global exports advanced nearly 10 per cent in the first five months of 2015, despite falling sales figures in France and Germany, CEO of Dacia automobile maker Nicolas Maure said ...
Logan, Duster and Sandero at the top of the best sold cars in Russia
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Logan, Duster and Sandero were situated in May at the top of the best sold 25 cars in Russia, according to the data published on Monday by the Association of European Business (AEB) but the deliveries of cars and commercial vehicles recorded a drop of 38% says Bloomberg. Last month, the first place in the top of the best sold cars in Russia was occupied by Solaris from Hyundai ( with 10,654 units) followed by Lada Granta (with 8,471 units) made by AvtoVAZ. The nineth and tenth place ...
Real Estate: Statistics: 9,232 homes were commissioned in Romania in the first quarter of 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
As many as 9,232 homes were commissioned in Romania in the first quarter of 2015, the National Institute of Statistics announced on Friday; the figure is 11.6 percent higher compared to Q1 2014. More than half of them (54.3 percent exactly) were in urban areas. In absolute ...
Tourism : Statistics: Romania's tourist accommodation registered arrivals advanced 15.3 percent year-on-year in April
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Romania's tourist accommodation registered arrivals advanced 15.3 percent year-on-year in April to 638,100; more than 25.2 percent of these tourists were foreigners, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics ...
PM Ponta: I want the Delta, Romania's greatest treasure, to be regulated in agreement
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday said all the pieces of legislation concerning activities conducted in the Danube Delta area should pass after reaching an agreement with those who carry out activities ...
Telecom.IT : Telekom Romania launches one-stop-shop platform for SMEs
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Telekom Romania announces the launch of LocalHub.ro, a one-stop-shop online platform created to offer users an accessible and efficient tool through which they can find relevant and up-to-date information on businesses and their activity, the company announced in a press ...
Agriculture : Romania can produce food for 35 million people
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Romania is not just a country that produced to cover its own needs, but also an important player at European and international level that can produce food for 35 million people, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Daniel Constantin, told a specialist ...
AgriMin wants a political consensus on the rehabilitation of the main irrigation infrastructure
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin asked for political consensus on the rehabilitation of the main irrigation infrastructure; this would allow Romania to earmark budget resources if investments are not obtained under the Juncker Plan of the European Commission or from international financial ...
World Bank's Capannelli: Progress in agriculture could contribute to Romania's economic growth
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) and the World Bank organize a conference in Bucharest on Wednesday, to present their medium and long-term perspective on Romania's rural sector, as the country is among Europe's best gifted with arable land, water and human resources. The participants will discuss the present challenges faced by Romania's agriculture and rural ...
Tourism : Bulgaria, Romania to Offer Joint Spa Holiday Packages from 2016
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Bulgaria and Romania will start offering joint spa holiday packages to tourists from the beginning of next year. The package, which is part of the EU-funded project “Roman Thermal Spas of Europe”, will offer to tourists the opportunity to stay at two spa resorts – one in Bulgaria and one in Romania. It aims to combine travel and stay at places, which simultaneously offer both ...
Telecom.IT: Third tender for multiplex land digital television completed
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The companies Info Total Press, TV Sat 2002 and Grup Est Security won the right to send digital TV programs by land radio transmission for the next 10 years in Suceava, Botosani, Bacau, Buzau and Piatra Neamt, according to the ANCOM press release. Licence taxes of 67,800 euros will be paid to the state budget in no more than 90 days after the announcement of tender results. * Digital multiplex is a group of radio and television programs, additional ...
Trade: Hypermarkets prepare for big VAT cuts
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Big commercial networks inform their clients about the way in which they intend to reduce prices as of June 1 as a result of the 9% VAT drop for food. An interesting consequence of price cuts generated by VAT reduction may be that of the disappearance of psychological prices of the xx.99 lei type. Several commercial networks applied cuts of 12% before June 1, offering them to their customers in advance. Carrefour for instance, ...
Growers should work together to improve domestic supermarket supply
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
For years, Romanian retailers and growers have wanted to benefit from increased collaboration, but this does not happen. "We want to buy from Romanian growers, but we can't because we lack the necessary infrastructure. This is why Romanian fruit and vegetables are difficult to find in stores," stated Calin Costina?, Deputy GM of Profi Rom Food, owned by the Polish investment fund Enterprise Investors, which ...
Romania lacks marketing and sales specialists, says Hootsuite product manager
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
“We haven’t brought much value to the Romanian economy; not because we didn’t want to, but because we couldn’t,” said on Thursday Vladimir Oane (photo), Product Manager with Hootsuite Media Inc. at the SMEs HOW TO 2015 event organized by Business ...
Agriculture: Less wood harvested, more forest regeneration in 2014
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The volume of harvested wood dropped by 6.2% while the area of regeneration works grew by 12.3% last year, while thw area of forest fund grew by 0.1%, according to INS data. The forest fund area on December 31, 2014 compared to the same period of 2013 registered an increase of 0.1%, due to the introduction of degraded lands and not forested areas in the forest fund, INS shows in a press release. Forests represent 97.6% of the ...
President Iohannis: Romanian agriculture must become real source of economic development
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
In his message to the Farmers' National Conference on Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis asserted it was vital to turn the Romanian agriculture into a real source of economic development; he maintained that Romania needs more than ever an assumed political position and an integrated vision. "In my view, the agriculture is a vital field for Romania's ...
EC adopts Romania’s Rural Development Program for 2014-2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The European Commission has approved on Tuesday a further 24 Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) aimed at improving the competitiveness of the EU farming sector, caring for the countryside and climate, and strengthening the economic and social fabric of rural communities by ...
Healthcare: Bulgaria, Romania to Order Expensive Medicines Jointly as of end-2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Bulgaria and Romania will start ordering jointly expensive pharmaceuticals in end-2015 in a bid to secure lower prices through larger quantities, according to Health Minister Petar Moskov. Moskov made clear Saturday that the two countries would try to persuade other European countries to join the pharmaceutical union at a later stage. He noted that supplies of mass medication would be negotiated by the Health ...
Infrastructures : Operational programme large infrastructure might be approved this June in Brussels
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Minister of European Funds Marius Nica believes that Romania's Large Infrastructure Operational Programme might be approved in Brussels this June, if officials take all the necessary steps. In a press release issued on Monday, Nica is reported to have had a meeting with European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu as part of a visit last week to ...