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Romanians can buy new cars through 2014 Car scrappage programme, starting April 8
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Natural persons interested in buying a new car through the car fleet renewal (car scrappage) programme can go, starting April 8, to the car dealers and then to scrap their cars older than 8 years at the REMAT centres approved by the Environment Fund Administration (AFM), according to Environment and Climate Changes Minister Attila Korodi.For this year's edition of the Car ...
Telecom: IT sector could benefit from new tax facilities (Minister)
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The IT sector in the future could benefit from new tax facilities, together with the tax exemption for programmers' revenues, but, for now, there are only discussions in principle with the Finance Ministry, Information Society Minister Razvan Cotovelea told an interview to ...
Special Telecom Service wins award for best reform of 112 emergency call system
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The Romanian Special Telecommunications Service (STS) won the European prize for the best reform of the National Single Emergency Call System (SNUAU) at the European 112 Awards Gala held in Warsaw, Poland. 'The international jury noted that STS has developed the 112 system in an efficient manner, considering both the technical and operational results with a major impact upon the quality of services and the citizens' safety,' STS informs ...
Implementing Gov't cloud system in Romania to create 106,000 jobs, 2014-2020
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The complete implementation of a governmental cloud system would create in Romania around 106,000 jobs in 2014-2020 and will lead to a decrease in public administration spending of 196 million euros per year, Diana Voicu, secretary of state with the Ministry for the Informational Society (MSI), told a specialist conference on Wednesday.She showed that Romania is now part of the group of European countries that have viable projects in ...
Healtcare: World Bank Supports Health of Romanians
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a EUR250 million loan to Romania for the Health Sector Reform – Improving Health System Quality and Efficiency project, which will be implemented by the Romanian Ministry of Health. The new project is consistent with the priorities of the World Bank’s strategic partnership in Romania, as well as with the European Commission and International Monetary Fund ...
Telecom .IT: 6.5 million Internet users in Romania in 2013
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The number of Internet users in Romania almost reached 6.5 million in 2013; approximately 4.7 million of them, aged between 14 and 64, used this communication system daily, according to a specialist research of the Romanian Transmedia Audit Bureau (BRAT) on the occasion of the Media Research Day.The Internet usage among Romanians has constantly increased over the last decade, from 1.77 million in 2002 to nearly 6.5 million in 2013, ...
Agriculture: Staking up the fruit growing industry, Arges County's no-lose priority for 2014-2020
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Giving the fruit growing sector a new lease of life has become a priority for Arges County farmers and experts, but for county authorities as well, following the introduction in the National Rural Development Programme (NRDP) 2014-2020 of a subchapter dedicated to increasing the sector's competitiveness. The first national debate on the relaunch of the fruit growing sector, ...
New Operational Programme for Fisheries hopefully truly successful, unlike current one
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Romanian Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin on Monday, March 24, voiced hopes the new Operational Programme for Fisheries proves really successful for farmers and the management, given that funding decommitments under the current programme stood at 8-9 million euros in 2013 alone, due to the issues with contracting and spending EU funds.'Regrettably, there have been decommitments every year and last year we had a significant amount decommitted, we were ...
Commissioner Ciolos: Romania's organic agriculture has made great progress in recent years
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Romania has made great progress in recent years in respects of organic farming, as both the number of operators in the organic sector and the cultivated arable surface increased several times, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos declared on Tuesday.The high European official presented on Tuesday the proposal of the European Commission for a new regulation on organic production and the labeling of organic products, which is ...
Tourism : Romania ranks 154th in the world for tourism contribution to GDP
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
In 2013 tourism had an overall contribution of 5.1% of GDP, which places Romania 154th in the world out of 184 countries, behind Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, according to a report of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). The overall contribution of tourism to GDP includes the business directly generated ...
Transfagarasan area - favorite destination for active tourism
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Transfagarasanul, one of the most spectacular mountain roads in Europe, has become a favorite destination for active tourism, due to the opportunities offered by the area it crosses.The Transfagarasanul segment in Arges County (DN 7C) starts in Capataneni, at the entrance to the Arges River's gorge, continues on the left shore of Vidraru Lake and along the valley of Capra Brook, reaching the tunnel at Balea Lake, at the border with the county of Sibiu. The road ...
Infrastructure: Wizz Air introduces four new routes from Bucharest
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The low cost operator Wizz Air announced that as of July it would introduce four new flights from Bucharest via Doncaster Sheffield (Great Britain), Malaga (Spain), Malmo (Sweden) and Malta and a flight from Cluj Napoca to Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, the company announced. Wizz Air has recently purchased another Airbus A320 plane, the eighth ...
LOT Polish Airlines increases number of flights to Romania
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
LOT Polish Airlines owned by the Polish state introduced the third daily flight between Warsaw and Bucharest as of March 30, increasing the number of flights between the two capital cities from 13 to 20 per week.The new flight leaves Warsaw at 14.30 and arrives in Bucharest at 17.30, while the takeoff from Bucharest is at 18.15. The new ...
CNADNR suggests building Sibiu-Brasov, Brasov-Bacau motorways on European funds
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Government on Wednesday approved a memorandum indicating that in 2014-2020, Romania qualifies for non-repayable European funds of 1.6 billion euros, which the National Roads and Motorways Corporation of Romania (CNADNR) suggests should be used to fund the construction of the central Sibiu-Brasov and eastern Brasov-Bacau motorways.The memorandum called 'A strategy for the absorption of non-repayable European funds related to ...
Fund absorption under operational programme transportation reaches 923 million euros in 2013
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Romania's absorption rate of European funds under its operational programme transportation reached 923 million euros in 2013, with most of the funds having been drawn by the National Roads and Motorways Corporation of Romania (CNADNR), Transport Minister Dan Sova said Tuesday.He said that out of the total funds taken in in 2013, CNADNR absorbed 559.96 million euros, while the CFR national rail carrier took in 299.042 million euros, 65 million euros of which went ...
Chinese Railway Company to build high-speed train line Bucharest – Constanta
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Chinese Railway Company will get involved in building the high-speed train line between Bucharest and Constanta, following an agreement signed on Tuesday in Beijing by Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea and China's National Commission of Development and Reform's Vice President Zhang Xiaoqiang.'We have two objectives set by mutual agreement which will be done with financial support from the Chinese side. In the coming days, specialists with the Chinese Railway ...
Trade: 19% Romanians used smart phones and 17% tablets to buy online (study)
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
About 17% of Romanians used tablets for online purchases in the last 6 months, while 19% used smart phones for the same thing, according to results of a marketing study made by Daedalus Millward Brown in February 2014. According to the study, 16.9% of tablet users made at least one online purchase, on the rise from 4.8% in 2013. The online ...
Romanians drank 10% less beer in 2013. Most consumers prefer plastic bottle beer
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The beer consumption dropped by 10% last year, reaching a volume of 16.3 million hectoliters, the Association of Romanian Beer makers informs.One Romanian consumed 81 liters of beer on the average in 2013, compared to 90 liters in 2012.“Despite the local producers’ efforts to maintain the positive 2012 trend, the beer market registered a significant contraction last year. The low level of consumers’ incomes and their distrust in ...
Real estate: Housing prices in Romania had biggest drop of 42 world countries
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Housing prices in Romania recorded the biggest drop in the world – about 10.5% in 2013, compared to 6% in 2012, according to a study made by globalpropertyguide.com website, based on average prices adjusted with the inflation of 42 world countries. “Half of Europe registered drops of house prices last year. Romania had the ...
Telecom.IT : Orange Romania to launch Orange Money service in H2
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Orange Romania will launch in the second half the Orange Money service which enables customers to pay bills or transfer money to other users from an account which will be associated to their phone number, writes local paper Ziarul Financiar citing CEO Jean Francois Fallacher. The service will be released in partnership with a local bank. According to market data, approximately 60 percent of Romanians have a bank account and even a smaller percentage ...