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Romania gets ready to award contract for EUR 83 mln communication network to cover remote villages
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Romania will soon select, via bid, the company that will build a national communication network in the country’s under-privileged areas.The project, worth some EUR 83 million and funded by EU money, includes assigning design and construction work for the new network, as well as leasing the right to operate the network so as to supply communication services in under-developed villages ...
Software sales in Romania 15% of total IT market revenues in 2012, study shows
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Software sales in Romania represented around 14.9 percent of the country’s USD 2.92 billion IT market, according to the Software and IT services in Romania study, recently published by ANIS and IDC.The average annual growth rate of the IT market forecasted for the next five years is of 2.4 percent, while the software market is expected to record an increase of some 3.3 percent, in the current business ...
Tourism: Romanian seaside holiday packages 5 - 8 pct more expensive next year, 70 pct of hotels up for sale
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Rates for Romanian seaside tourist packages will be by 5 - 8 percent higher in 2014, following the 5 percent decrease in the number of tourists this year, vice-president of the Romanian Tourism Employers Federation (FPTR) Dragos Raducan told a conference dedicated to the presentation of the autumn edition of the Romanian Tourism Fair.'We literally don't know what prices to charge for 2014 and we hope that the increase by 5-8 percent is ...
Agriculture: CNP's autumn forecast: agricultural production, estimated to decline by 3% in 2014
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Agricultural production will record a growth by 12% in 2013 compared to last year, and in 2014 it will decline by 3%, according to the autumn variant of the 2013-2017 medium-term forecast of the National Prognosis Commission /CNP/.Agricultural production will return to an upward trend in the years 2015-2017, when it will record growth rates of 1.5% for the years 2015 to 2016, and 1.4% in 2017 respectively.Industrial ...
Infrastructure: Minister Manescu: Railway infrastructure laggard, authorities focus on revamping it
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Romania's railway infrastructure is laggard, but the Ministry of Transport sets focus on revamping it through projects with European grants, said incumbent Minister Ramona Manescu.'It is a pity that we have a broadly developed railway infrastructure in terms of territory coverage, but it is obsolete. On sections where we could travel at speeds of 120 km/h we drag along at barely 40 km/h,' Manescu said in the city of Toplita - Hunedoara ...
Transport Masterplan to be green-lighted in coming period; projects of 1.12 bn euro provided for
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Transport Ministry will green-light the Transport Masterplan in the coming period, which provides for upgrading projects worth 1.12 billion euros, Transport Minister Ramona Manescu told a Tuesday's specialist conference.'The money for the projects worth 1.12 billion euros will come from European funds and will be allocated particularly for upgrading Henri Coanda Airport and the airports in Cluj, Constanta and Baia Mare. There will ...
Ponta: Government is resolute to use all possible resources to develop infrastructure projects with R. Moldova
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Romanian Government is resolute to use all the possible resources to develop concrete projects, both as energy infrastructure and as transports infrastructure with the Republic of Moldova, Romanian Prime Minister said in Brussels on Friday.'I want to assert once more Romania's Government's resolution to use all possible resources - from the national budget, structural and cohesion funds, through accessing other European programmes - ...
Commissioner Kallas, extremely favorable to PPP or lease motorway projects
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas is highly favorable to public-private partnerships (PPP) or lease arrangements being used as a solution for the construction of motorways, given that EU funding will never be enough to complete such projects in Eastern Europe, Prime Minister Victor Ponta declared on Friday in Brussels.The head of the Romanian government met on Friday with European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas, ...
Bulgaria to Push for Construction of 3rd Danube Bridge with Romania
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski will attempt to convince Romania that a third Danube bridge should be built between the two countries, according to his deputy.“The decision to build a bridge between Silistra and Calarasi should be taken on an inter-governmental level. It is equally important for our government as the other Danube bridges,” Bulgarian Deputy PM Daniela ...
Healthcare: 6% of GDP for healthcare sector remains political objective, but by 2016
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Awarding 6% of GDP to the healthcare sector is a political objective, which is assumed by 2016 though, Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu told Realitatea TV, after the Sanitas Federation announced an all-out strike in the healthcare system because the relevant ministry has not met the unionists' claims.'We have been negotiating for some time. Some of the issues have been agreed on, an example in this sense being the solutions found for ...
Trade: Three stores of the Delhaize Group in Brussels are selling Romanian products
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Starting on Wednesday the Romanians living in Brussels will be able to find Romanian products in three of the stores belonging to the Delhaize Group, following an initiative of the Romanian Embassy in Belgium supported also by the company that owns the Mega Image network in Romania.The products to be presented for sale under the brand 'Taste of Romania' are the traditional sweet bread, plum jam, gingerbread, Sibiu salami, the eggplant ...
Cars: Registrations of new cars, down 82%, from 2008 to 2013 (analysis)
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The registrations of new cars in Romania declined by 82% in the past five years, having amounted in the first ten months of 2013 to only 46,667 units, shows a market analysis drawn up by the portal auto.ro.Thus, compared to the period January to October 2008, when the number of the new car registrations reached almost 253,000 units, five years later the relevant figure nosedived to 46,667 units.According to the cited source, ...
Real Estate: Commercial spaces for rent below 10 euros per square meter, even in Bucharest (analysis)
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A business owner can benefit from a rent less than 10 euros / square meter / month in downtown of any big city of the country , even in Bucharest, reveals an analysis made by the online platform SpatiiComerciale.ro.In the historic center, for example, the cheapest offer listed on SpatiiComerciale.ro refers to an area of 700 square meters, which can be rented for 5,000 euros / month , ie 7.14 euros / sqm / month. In Dorobanti, a ...
Agriculture : Ecological agriculture to benefit by over 200 million euros from European funds in next years
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The ecological agriculture in the next seven years will benefit by over 200 million euros from European funds and the Government considers adopting some fiscal measures meant to stimulate this sector, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told Agerpres on Thursday, November 7. 'The ecological agriculture has developed very much and much produce of this sector was exported. I think we can create a country brand by promoting bio produce and ...
PM wants to cut VAT by 9 pct for bioproducts after discussing it with the IMF
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
We are considering cutting the VAT for bioproducts down to 9 percent, the same as we did it for bread, but not before discussing the matter with the international financial institutions, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the co-President of the Social Liberal Union (USL, ruling alliance) stated on Friday.'We want to cut it [the VAT, editor's note] down to 9 percent, the same as we did it for bread, but only after we have the chance to discuss this matter next year with ...
Almost 400 ml euros made available to Romania for establishment of agriculture mutual funds
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Nearly 400 million euros will be made available to Romania in the next seven years for the establishment of agriculture mutual funds and risk management in the sector, with the funding disbursed under the new National Rural Development Programme (NRDP), Minister of Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin told Agerpres.'Under the new NRDP we have 397 million euros earmarked for the establishment of mutual funds, a concept I am very keen on and which Romania needed ...
Agriculture Minister says 198 ml euros allocated for orchards rehabilitation and establishment
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Romania's fruit tree-growing sector is a priority for the period 2014 - 2020, with a total of 198 ml euros allocated for the rehabilitation of orchards and the establishment of new ones, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told Agerpres on Nov. 7.'Our future National Rural Development Program will include a comprehensive tree growing section with an overall allocation of nearly 200 million euros. The effects we pursue are the ...
AgriMin Daniel Constantin: Government green-lights granting of aid for purchasing milk-cooling tanks
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The Government green-lighted on Wednesday the granting of de minimis aid worth 5,000 euros for purchasing milk-cooling tanks, as of 2014, a measure over 41,000 households will benefit from and which will provide the marketing of milk in line with relevant EU norms, said Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin.'Today [on Wednesday], the Government has adopted a decision on granting a de minimis aid for the purchase of milk-cooling tanks. ...
European Commissioner Dacian Ciolos wants support for small farmers, to deal with market competition
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos, in the Danube Rectors' Conference in Cluj Napoca (central-western Romania) on Thursday, said that the new Common Agricultural Policy would be based on innovation and research and that the universities would have a decisive role in supporting European farmers.The reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) brings a new understanding of the concept of sustainable ...
APIA pays 5.5 bln euros to beneficiaries, absorption degree of rural development funds – 63%
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
The Agency of Payments and Intervention for Agriculture (APIA) has paid 5.5 billion euros to beneficiaries out of the total amount of 8.1 billion euros which Romania has at its disposal in 2007-2013, but which has to be spent by 2015, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said on Wednesday, indicating that the absorption degree of rural development funds is 63%.'Today the APIA can report that, out of the total 8.1 billion euros that ...