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Telecom .IT: Romania hopes to find support from Bulgaria and Hungary for common telecom infrastructure projects
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Romania is prepared to use the opportunity of building telecom infrastructures accessing the funds earmarked through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and will have contacts in this respect with Bulgaria and Hungary to find support for creating common projects, Romanian Minister for Information Society Alexandru-Razvan Cotovelea said in Brussels on Wednesday, May 14.The Minister had an informal meeting with European Commissioner for ...
Orange Romania starts bill payment promotion
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Orange Romania launched a promotion whereby customers who pay their bills online with MasterCard or Maestro cards get a 5 percent discount off their bill value. The promotion applies to all payments for Orange Romania bills made with cards that were not previously used on www.orange.ro after 1 January 2013. The offer is available until 12 August and applies for the first payment made with a card on www.orange.ro. Payments can be made on www.orange.ro/mastercard/ or ...
Healthcare: Poor countries give rich ones more than they get back
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Romania has the smallest number of physicians per thousand inhabitants in Europe, Health Ministry State Secretary Dorel Sandesc said at a press conference on Tuesday; he estimated that the poor countries give rich ones more than they receive, in medical terms.'Romania faces a very serious deficit of medical staff. According to available data, approximately 15,000 physicians left Romania over the last 7 years. Recent ...
Real estate market in 2014: 10% more apartments at lower prices
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The average price asked by landlords for apartments is 5-6% lower in April compared to the same period of 2013, statistics made by AnunturiPublicitare.ro show. The same statistics show that 11,000 apartments were for sale in the market in the first 4 months, 10% more than in the same period of 2013. The same statistics show ...
Microsoft, ZTE and Linde Gaz rented offices in the project Optica Business Park in Timisoara
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Microsoft, ZTE and Linde Gaz rented office spaces in the project Optica Business Park in Timisoara, an investment of brothers Cristescu, announced Activ Property Services, partner Cushman&Wakefield in Romania, the company which represented the owner in these tradings. Microsoft ...
Tourism: This year’s tendencies in Romanian tourism
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
2014 tendencies show more tourists compared to 2013, as well as sojourns up to 5% more expensive, reaching an average value of the package bought of 638 lei for domestic destinations and 1,578 lei for foreign ones, a National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT) study ...
The spa market in Romania worth 6.5 ml euros in 2013 (study)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The overall turnover of spa facilities in Romania reached up to approximately 6.5 million euros in 2013, representing a 5 per cent increase in 2012, according to a study published by despreSpa.ro.According to the research, in 2013, 124,000 Romanians and 26,000 foreigners went for relaxation services in Romania. Subscriptions to gyms or swimming pools and other therapies that are also considered as relaxation services (like anti cellulite massages, weight ...
Agriculture : AgriMin Constantin says funds exist for rehabilitation of secondary irrigation
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Under the future National Rural Development Programme (NRDP), Romanian farmers will qualify for funds to rehabilitate Romania's entire secondary irrigation system, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin said Thursday in Tulcea.'The good news is we have European funds for the entire secondary infrastructure of the irrigation system nationwide. By comparison, I can tell you that while in 2007-2013 there were 60 million euros available, the ...
Romania currently has 800,000 hectares of untilled land (official)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The total area of untilled land in Romania is around 800,000 hectares, and if the agricultural year is a good one agriculture can insure raw materials both for consumers, for the production of electric or thermal power, or biofuel, said on Thursday Tatiana Preda, senior adviser in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR).'Currently in Romania around 800,000 hectares of untilled land exist. Romania's agriculture can insure, in a good agricultural ...
Romania's vine-growing program gets EUR 238.5 ml over 2014 - 2018
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Romania managed to fully spend until 2013 the 253 million euros allocated under the vine-growing program and another 238.5 million euros are available for the period 2014 - 2018, Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin declared today at an event devoted to the celebration of Europe Day.'The vine-growing program is a reason of pride ...
Infrastructure : Bosch company's managers want link roads with motorway in Hungary
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The representatives of the German company Bosch expressed their wish the Romanian state would build a link road that will connect the Cluj County (central-west), where a new facility belonging to the group is inaugurated on Friday, with the M3 or the M 31 motorway in Hungary.Konrad Kashek, the general manager of the Bosch facility in Cluj on Friday told a press conference ...
Romania campaigning for improved sea transportation
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Romania is campaigning for improved sea transportation in relation to the protection of the sea environment at the EU and international levels. It is also voicing itself in favour of a European legislative initiative regarding the use of Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) in waterborne transport both at sea and on inland waterways, Romania's Transport Minister Dan Sova told ...
Fly Romania to operate Bucharest-Palermo flight this summer
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Fly Romania will start operating the Bucharest - Palermo flight this summer, with the Sicilian city being the seventh international destination of the airline company, according to a release.There will be twice-weekly Bucharest-Palermo flights, on Tuesday and Thursday respectively, for prices starting from 23.90 euros.This summer Fly Romania will operate flights to cities in Italy, Spain, Germany and ...
Cars: The number of new registrations of passenger vehicles dropped by 6.5 percent in Q1
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
New registrations for motor vehicles designed for passenger transport dropped by 6.5 percent in the first quarter of the current year, reaching the figure of 61,811 units, when compared to the similar period in 2013, when 66.078 units were registered, while new registrations for motor vehicles designed for cargo transport rose by 3.7 percent, reaching the figure of 19.568 units, stated on Tuesday the National Institute for ...
Trade: GfK study: Bread, vegetables and fruit most often bought by Romanians
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Bread, vegetables and fruit are the fresh food most often bought by Romanians, but the highest amount of money is spent on meat, vegetables and meat products, according to a GfK study.“Fresh food represents 38% of all expenses devoted to household consumption. Most often we find bread, vegetables and fruit,” the report ...
Beer consumption habits change in Romania, amid drop in purchasing power (EY study)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Amid a decline in their purchasing power, the Romanian beer consumers changed their buying habits, as the lowest beer consumption level of the past 5 years, namely 16.3 million hectolitres was recorded in 2013, down 10 percent compared to 2012, reveals the report EY Regioplan The Contribution made by Beer to the European Economy. More and more Romanian consumers choose a less expensive beer, which has become a pronounced trend over the ...
Telecom.IT: Study: 12% of Romanians own a smart phone
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
12% of Romanians aged over 14 own a smart phone and 5% a tablet, according to the study made by Mercury Research at the end of 2013. The use of smart phones and tablets is spread mainly among high school and college students, young people under 35 and people with higher education. A significant percentage of smart phone and tablet users do not use these devices to connect to the ...
Agriculture: Romania exported foodstuff of 360.8 million euro in January
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Romania exported foodstuff of 360.8 million euro in January 2014, on the rise by 44% (about 109.3 million euro) compared to the same period of 2013. Corn, wheat and cigarettes ranked first, according to data supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). In January, the value of EU deliveries grew by 45.7% compared ...
Romania in top ten wine consumers in the world
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Romania remains in the top ten wine consumers in the world in point of fiscal consumption, which amounts to 24 liters per capita, said Catalin Padureanu, Romania’s representative at the International Wine and Vine Organization at the opening of the International Goodwine Fair on Friday. Over 1,000 wines coming from 100 local and foreign producers were at the disposal of fair visitors over ...
Over a third of Romania’s fertile land is now owned by foreigners
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
On January the 1st, 2014 Romania officially granted foreign citizens the right to directly purchase farmland. Prior to this date, foreign citizens were allowed to buy farmland in Romania only after setting up a Romanian firm. Experts have warned that the purchase of farmland, by foreign citizens, will increase significantly and that the state should thoroughly control this type of transactions. In 14 years alone, 3 million hectares of farmland have been ...