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Real estate: 7,682 housing units commissioned in first quarter of 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The number of housing units commissioned in the first quarter of 2013 was of 7,682, 820 units more than the same period of 2012, according to data published by the National Statistic Institute. Of them 3,537 are in the urban area and 4,145 in the rural area. Thus the number of housing units commissioned in the first quarter 2013 grew by 488 units in the urban area and by 332 units in the rural area compared to ...
Office building market: prices of 1,100-3,800 euro/sq.m. while in other towns they are 3 times cheaper
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Office buildings sold in Bucharest have prices between 1,100 and 3,800 euro/sq.m. while in big province towns the lowest price is 400 euro and the highest 1,250 euro/sq.m. Spatiicomerciale.ro, the platform promoting real estate ads for commercial buildings launched by Imobiliare.ro gathers 14,000 such ads. The portal includes a classification of the most expensive office buildings for sale in ...
Agriculture: AgriMin: We asked EC for another 5-6 m euros per year to be invested in conversion programme for vineyards
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Romania is currently negotiating with the European Commission (EC) to obtain another 5-6 million euros per year to be added to funds already allotted under the conversion programme for vineyards, in the context in which the country has been receiving 45 million euros for this programme every year in the past five years, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Daniel Constantin, stated on Monday, at the opening of 36th edition of the World Congress of Vine ...
Wine-growing sector in Romania has attracted 42 million euros of European funds in past five years
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The wine sector in Romania has accessed the European funds in full in the past five years, through the 'Support for the wine sector', ie 42 million euros, the most visible aspect of the program consisting of replanting about 19,700 hectares with noble vine varieties, announced on Monday the Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin in the opening of the 36th Congress of Vine and Wine.This program will continue in Romania until 2018, the Minister said. He ...
Genetically modified MON 810 maize, cultivated on approval only since 2007
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The MON810 maize genetically modified to withstand insect invasion, including the invasion of the European corn borer, has been cultivated in Romania since 2007, but only by farmers authorised to this end by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development via that county agricultural offices and the Bucharest agricultural office, Director General of the Agricultural Policies Directorate General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Elena Tatomir ...
Romania's forestland coverage advances 0.1 pct in 2012
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
On December 31, 2012, compared to the same date of 2011, the area of Romania's forest fund advanced about 0.1%. This growth is mostly determined by redrawing forested pastures and introducing degraded and non-forested land in the forest stock, the National Statistics Institute (INS) reported on Friday.The forestland represents 97.6 per cent of the national forest stock.The volume of harvested timber, ...
Tourism: Arrivals in tourist accommodation structures increase by 4pct, in April 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Arrivals in tourist accommodation structures, in April 2013, amounted to 535,700, an increase by 4 percent compared to those in April 2012, according to data released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics.In contrast, overnight stays recorded in April 2013, compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, recorded a decrease by 5.3 percent, to 1.030 million.Romanian ...
Largest geothermal water park, at Noroieni, Satu Mare
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Solarex Company based in Satu Mare (northern Romania), Astoria Hotel owner, on June 1 will inaugurate the tourism and health service complex, AquaStar, the largest geothermal water park nationwide, reads economica.net.The construction works for AquaStar project of Noroieni, Satu Mare County, were initiated last summer and the 48 million lei investment came from non-refundable European funds worth 25 ...
Cultural route: In the Footsteps of the Habsburgs - tourism project in north-eastern Romania
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Suceava Municipality and the Museum of Bucovina will join the cultural route project dubbed In the Footsteps of the Habsburgs, presented at the Bucovinan Dialogue Forum, mayor Ion Lungu said on Wednesday, one day after the talks he and the Programme's representative Jean Klinkert held on the topic.Lungu said that together with the director of the Museum of Bucovina Emil Constantin Ursu, who came with ...
Infrastructure : Transport Minister: Calafat-Vidin bridge operational on June 14
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Minister of Transport Relu Fenechiu declared on Tuesday in the southern town of Calafat, where he inspected the works on the Calafat-Vidin Danube bridge, that this connection will be operational on June 14 when it will be opened in the presence of both the Romanian and Bulgarian heads of state, Prime Minister Victor Ponta and European Commissioner Johannes Hahn.According ...
Construction of bridge over Danube, between Braila and Galati, to be state-guaranteed, says PM
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The Government will provide state guarantees for the construction of the much-debated bridge across the Danube located between Braila and Galati, which will link to Tulcea County (south-east of the country), said on Tuesday, in Braila, Premier Victor Ponta.'I discussed with the Ministry of Public Finance, to include this project in the guarantee program, with sovereign ...
Trade: Fuel and non-food products led to a slight increase in retail in April
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
In April 2013 the volume of the turnover in retail ( besides that of vehicles and motobikes) increased against the previous month both as gross series by 9.2% as well as as adjusted series depending on the number of work days and season by 2.0% sent on Monday the officials of the National Institute for Statistics in a press release. Against the corresponding month of the previous month, the same indicator increased both as gross series as well as ...
Trade: Beer Producers’ Association: Romanian drank 18.8 million hl in 2012
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Romanians drank 18.8 million hl of beer in 2012, the general manager of the Beer Producers’ Association in Romania, Constantin Bratu said in Cluj Napoca at a press conference. “Actually it was the first year after the beginning of economic crisis when we registered an in crease in beer consumption. In Cluj county about 300.000 hl of beer are drunk ...
IRES Survey : 90% of Romanians say that health is the main reason for which they take care of what they eat
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Most Romanians – 90%- say health is the main reasonfor which they are careful with what they eat, while 10% consider that ‘ it is important we know what we eat’, according to a survey IRES made on 14 and 15 May. The survey shows that 70%of the interviewees do not permit financially to choose healthy food, and 19% due to lack of time.. As regards food which they buy from shops, 76% are careful at the validity of ...
Telecom.IT: Fixed broad band Internet connections grew by 7.9% last year
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The number of fixed broadband Internet connections grew last year by 7.9% to 3.5 million, the penetration rate per 100 inhabitants reaching 18.6%, 1.4% more than the previous year, according to ...
Orange Romania receives approval to launch on the TV transmission market
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The National Audiovisual Council of Romania (CNA ) granted Orange Romania a re-trabnsmission company for the satellite tv program for television prograjms via satellite, called “Orange TV”. Initially Orange had asked CNA to broadcast only 13 program but in the last two weeks the company asked for the television programs operated by ProTV SA, Romanian ...
Real estate: Real estate transactions on the rise by 32%
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The number of real estate transactions grew by 32% in the first four months of the year to 262,649 compared to 199,362 operations in the same period of 2012, according to the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (ANCPI). In April the national level was 74,937 transactions, 6,439 more than the previous month and by 24,071 more than April 2012. Most ...
Iasi, 12th in a world top made according the number of retailers newly-entered on the market
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Iasi is the 12th out of 208 cities in a world top made according to the number of retailers newly-entered on the market last year by the company of real state consultancy CBRE, performance recorded as the commercial centre Palas – with a surface of 55,000 square metres - was opened. According to CBRE, last year in Iasi there were opened 19 new branches, out of 320 retailers analysed in ...
Infrastructure: TAROM officially launches Dublin-Bucharest-Dublin route
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
TAROM airline officially launched on Monday, May 22, the route Dublin - Bucharest - Dublin, flights following to be operated with a Boeing 737, on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, representatives of the company on Friday announced in a press release to Agerpres.The event launching the new route was organised in collaboration with the Dublin Airport, in the presence of ...
Henri Coanda International Airport wins Euro Annie Award
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest has recently won the Euro Annie Award in the Fastest Growing Airport category, said the Aeroporturi National Company in Bucharest on Friday.According to the aforementioned source, it won the award in the category of the airports that registered between 5 and 10 million passengers last year.The Euro Annie ...