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Ramona Manescu: Romania supports proposals for accelerating Single European Sky objectives implementing
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Romania supports the proposals for accelerating the implementing of the Single European Sky objectives, Transports Minister Ramona Manescu informed within the informal meeting of European Union Transports Ministers, which took place in Vilnius, the Republic of Lithuania.According to a release of the relevant ministry remitted to Agerpres on Monday, the Minister pointed out she supported the idea of correlating the Single Sky legislation ...
Trade: Aurescu: Moldovan winemakers to talk with Romanian retailers
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The winemakers from the Republic of Moldova and the Romanian retailers will meet in the near future, in an attempt to increase exports to the Romanian market, after the embargo the Russian Federation imposed, Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu said, on Thursday Sept 12.Aurescu discussed the issue with the Republic of Moldova's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and ...
Agriculture : Commercial exchanges between Romania and China with pork and live cattle could start in November
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Commercial exchanges between Romania and China with pork and live cattle will start after the harmonisation of export certificates and the signing of protocols, namely towards the end of October, the beginning of November, the chairman of the ANSVSA Vladimir Manastireanu. ‘Following ...
Agricultural produce prices knock out 2.5 billion euros off Romania's GDP
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Romania's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is short of 2.5 billion euros because of the acquisition prices paid by traders for agricultural produce coming from Romania, which is many times smaller than those paid for produce coming from countries like France, Italy and Germany, Chairman of the LAPAR League of Associations of Romanian Agricultural Producers Laurentiu Baciu told a news conference on Wednesday.'On June 10 this year, the price ...
Agricultural biotechnology is available solution for sustainable agriculture
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Romanian producers should be willing to analyse all the solutions available for sustainable agriculture, one of them being the agricultural biotechnology, the U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Bucharest Duane Butcher told a specialized forum on Tuesday.In order to produce more, with fewer resources, the Romanian producers should be willing to analyse all the available solutions. The countries all over the world are increasingly laying ...
Argentina's Ambassador: Romania belongs to select group of countries having most fertile farmland
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Romania, along with Argentina, belong to a select group of countries having the most fertile farmland, worldwide, Argentina's Ambassador in Bucharest H.E. Claudio Perez Paladino told specialty forum, on Tuesday. 'In this agricultural sector, Romania and Argentina can run a long, successful way. We belong to a select group of the countries whose farmland is one of the most fertile of the world. Romania holds an importantly large fertile ...
Real estate market: lower rents for Bucharest apartments
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Landowners reduced rent for Bucharest apartments by 4% in August although 10% more apartment could be fount for rent in the market, according to the report made by AnunturiParticulari.ro. There were 2,889 new offers for rentals in August, which represents a 10.6% increase compared to the same period of 2012. Most new offers came last month ...
Health: Study: Money for health should be directed to state and private clinics
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Three quarters of Romanians want public health funds be directed both to state and private clinics, a study made by MedLife shows. According to it, essential premises for the development of a performing health system are the quality of medical staff, stable laws the state budget percentage allocated for health. The results of the latest ...
Telecom.IT: Romania is second in the world for the number of infected computers with viruses
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Romania is second in the world after India as regards the number of computers infected with viruses, a press release of Bitdefender shows, which quotes the Quickscan data, the security scanner of the company which identifies the informatic active threats by the checking of the critical areas in the computers. According to the quoted source, the highest number of infected computers is in India (the infection rate is 14.48%), Romania (11.55%9, the US ...
Cars: Turnover of automotive industry might increase by 13-15 percent this year
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The turnover of the automotive industry might increase by 13-15 percent this year after amounting to 13.27 billion euros in 2012, said Gheorghe Druta, technical adviser of the Association of Motorcar Makers in Romania (ACAROM), on Thursday. 'The turnover of the automotive industry was 13.27 billion euros in 2012 and they presume a 13-15 percent growth in 2013 from 2012,' Druta told Forum Expo Plast 2013, a conference preceding the Expo ...
Agriculture: Bio food and products made in Romanian villages for sale in Carrefour supermarkets
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Bio Romania Association and Carrefour Romania signed a partnership to sell countryside-made bio products in the local Carrefour hypermarkets chain, Association chairman Marian Cioceanu says.The products manufactured by the members of the Bio Romania Association were listed in seven of the Bucharest-based hypermarkets, on July 31, 2013, and starting on this Sept 12, buyers are to find Romanian-made bio food in 19 Carrefour hypermarkets, ...
Tourism: INS: Arrivals at Romania's tourist accommodation facilities advance 3.3 pct, Jan.-July, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Arrivals at Romania's tourist accommodation facilities advanced 3.3 per cent, January 1 - July 31, 2013, but overnights were down 0.6 per cent compared with the similar period of the year before, according to data released on Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).Arrivals of foreigners and departures of Romanian nationals at Romania's crossing points were up in July 2013 from July ...
Trade: Romania's retail turnover declines 0.7 pct, Jan.-July, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Romania's retail turnover volume (excluding trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) in the period January 1 - July, 31, 2013 decreased from the similar period of 2012 both in unadjusted terms and adjusted terms for working days and seasonality, by 0.7 per cent and 0.3 per cent, respectively, according to data released on Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).In July 2013, the ...
Eurostat:Romania tops July monthly rises in EU retail trade
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Romania's volume of retail trade advanced 2.1 per cent in July 2013 compared with June 2013, topping the rises in retail trade in the European Union, according to data released on Wednesday by the Eurostat European statistics office.In July 2013 compared with June 2013, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade rose by 0.1 per cent in the euro area (EA17) - Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, ...
Infrastructure: Henri Coanda Airport becomes the first in Romania receiving the Airport Carbon Accreditation
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The Bucharest Airports National Company (CNAB) has obtained the Airport Carbon Accreditation for the Henri Coanda International Airport (AIHCB), which became the very first Romanian airport accredited on the programme, following a specialized audit mission carried out by international experts in the field, according to a release of the company.Thus, the AIHCB, certified at the Mapping level, became the first airport in Romania receiving ...
Chinese company interested in building portion of Transylvania Motorway
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
On Tuesday in Beijing, Romania's minister-delegate for Infrastructure Projects of National Interest and Foreign Investment Dan Sova met the management of China Communications Construction Company, which voiced interest in the unfinished portion of Romania's Transylvania Motorway from Gilau to Suplacu de Barcau. 'A traffic study for this portion indicates an average daily traffic a year in ...
Healthcare: Private health clinics report growth rates of up to 20 pct
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Romania's main operators of privately-owned clinics and hospitals reported growth rates of up to 20 per cent in the first half of 2013 and they are expecting to keep up the pace in the second part of the year, Ziarul Financiar reports.The private healthcare networks thus continued on a rising trend of the past years, managing to boost their business on investment conducted years ago that reached maturity now. Given these conditions, the ...
WB: Rising Chronic Disease and a Gender Gap in Health Take a Growing Toll in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Men in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are more likely to die prematurely than women, a trend driven by rising levels of chronic diseases connected to alcohol use, poor diets, and smoking, a statement made by World Bank is saying. In the region, the number of years of healthy life lost because of ischemic heart disease, or coronary artery ...
Romania's Medlife plans to complete four large ambulatory units this year
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
MedLife, the biggest private healthcare provider in Romania, said on Tuesday its turnover rose by 17 percent to EUR 35.2 million in the first semester against the same period of last year, citing expanding retail and corporate operations. Mihai Marcu, president of the administration board at ...
First private medical genetics center is launched in Bucharest
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The first private Medical Genetics Center in Romania, an investment worth more than two million euros, was launched in Bucharest on Tuesday during the conference entitled Personalized Medicine - New Prospects for the Romanian Patient.The Center is part of the World Map of Next Generation Sequencers, a world network including the centers that use high-capacity genomic sequencer platforms, it has four floors totalling 650 square meters ...