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Infrastructure : Eurobarometer: 71% of Europeans in favour of more competition in national and regional rail
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
71% of EU citizens support the opening of their national and regional rail systems to competition. The total support is above 60% in all but two Member States (Netherlands and Luxembourg). 78% of EU citizens think that more competition will be good for passengers. According to a special Eurobarometer survey, less than half of Europeans are satisfied with their railway systems (46%) - although satisfaction has improved since 1997 (41%). The level of satisfaction varies from 67% in ...
Portile de Fier I Romanian lock re-opened
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The Romanian lock of Portile de Fier I (Iron Gates) Dam was re-opened early Saturday, after having been closed for nearly 18 months for the last phase of the upgrading works.Judicial Manager of hydro-electric power producer Hidroelectrica SA said the Romanian lock, from this moment on, will operate in line with European parameters; Remus Borza announced the investments were exclusively funded from the company's own budget, with the Government to contribute to ...
Agriculture : Ciolos: European Union will allocate twice higher budget to agricultural research and innovation
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos told a news conference at the Ioan Ionescu de la Brad University of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, in Iasi (east) that the European Union (EU) will double the budget allocated to the research and the innovation in agriculture.According to the EU official, the budget is to go up from 1.9 to 4.02 billion euros, starting 2014.'The EU Commission allocates a ...
Ciolos: Future of Romania's rural environment is in the hands of the Romanians
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The future of Romania's rural environment is in the hands of the Romanians, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos said in Cluj-Napoca (406 km north-west of Bucharest) at the conference A Vision for Europe delivered at the Faculty of European Studies.'The Brussels officials set objectives and then they draw up instruments helping the communities in question to develop according to their own aims, but at the same time ...
500 mln euros going to farmers starting Oct. 16
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Subsidies worth 500 million euros will go to the farmers starting Oct. 16, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin announced at a meeting with the farmers in the northwestern Satu Mare county on Friday.'Next week, after the laws are approved, we'll effectively begin the payments to the farmers. 500 million euros in advance payments by area will go to the farmers starting October 16 till October 31. From this viewpoint, all the staff of the Agency for ...
Commissioner Ciolos: Agriculture is Europe's only economic sector for which there is a common policy
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Agriculture, the agri-food sector that is, is the only economic sector in Europe for which there is a common policy, European Commissioner fro Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos told a conference on Thursday hosted by the Bucharest University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) to mark 160 years of Romanian agricultural higher education.'Agriculture, that is the agri-food sector, is the only economic sector in Europe ...
Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin: need for farming specialists is increasingly higher
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The need for farming specialists is increasingly higher, both in the public sector and in the private one, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told a Thursday's conference organized by the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest to celebrate 160 years of Romanian agronomic education.''The need for farming specialists is increasingly higher, both in the public sector and in the private one. Over ...
Gov't to approve measures to allot money to drought-stricken producers
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
All the measures that must be adopted regarding the agriculture, including money allotment to all the drought-hit producers, will be approved at the Government meeting next week, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said at the beginning of the Government's weekly meeting.'The Agriculture Minister drawn up all the measures we must approve for the end of this year for the agricultural domain, thanks to some funds we hope to receive in time to assign them to the ...
Tourism : Over 5.5 million foreign tourists enter Romania in first eight months
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
The arrivals of the foreign visitors in Romania, which were registered at the border crossing points, amounted to 5.526 million in the first eight months of 2012, up by 5.7 percent from the similar time span of last year, according to the provisional data supplied by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Most foreign visitors come from European countries (94.2 percent) and 57.8 percent of all foreign visitors to Romania come from the European Union (EU) ...
Infrastructure :FlyDubai airline starts operating flights to Romania
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The FlyDubai airline, which is known as the accessible airline of the emirate, is operating flights to Bucharest starting on October 1.This air operator, which the Government in Dubai owns as well as the much better known company Emirates, is the accessible airline of the emirate, which was set up in 2009 and currently operates 45 destinations in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and Asia with its 24 Boeing 737-800 aircraft of its ...
Infrastructure investments, most visible among EU-funded projects
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
About 97 percent of Romania's urban population heard about the EU funds, with the infrastructure investments being the most visible among the EU-funded projects, according to a national survey on the knowledge of the general public about the Operational Regional Program Regio.Ionela Caprian, PR coordination of the Management Programs Direction of the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism (MDRT) revealed on Sept. 26 at the Forum of the Regio Communicators in Bran (central ...
Agriculture : Restoring irrigation system, topic discussed by Minister Daniel Constantin and EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Romania reasserted its commitment to prove to the European Commission that the national priorities, the restoration of the national irrigation system and the fight against floods, must be financed from European funds as well, said Romanian Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin last week, after the meeting he had with European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn.The Romanian official participated on Monday and Tuesday in Brussels in the ...
Romanian organic grains, much in demand in USA, Canada
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Romanian certified organic grains are much in demand these days in the United States, where one of the largest organic agriculture fairs in America, Biofach Baltimore, is being held, writes Agrointel, taken over by the Capital publication.The offered prices exceed the most optimistic expectations of Romanian farmers, said Marian Cioceanu, president of the Organic Farmers' Association - 'Bio Romania'.'Romanian farmers were flooded, as ...
Agriculture Minister: Corn crops this year, to be 60 percent lower compared with last year
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Corn crops this year will be 60 percent lower compared with last year, estimates showing that this year there will be significant losses in sunflower and corn, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin said on Friday.'I would not want to give an opinion for the time being, as these are only estimates and I would not want to give figures before completing harvesting, because it would really influence prices. Harvesting will be ...
Real estate : Real estate market matured, developers cautiously resume residential investments
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The real estate market matured and the realty trade fairs start to attract only people who are really interested in purchasing a home, Imopedia managing director Razvan Muntean told Agerpres on Friday at the opening of the National Realty Trade Fair.The trade fair offers homes in Bucharest, Ilfov and Prahova Valley, Brasov and Constanta and is open at the Parliament Palace in September on 28 to 30.Imopedia launched their latest product for ...
Ozone Homes launches residential project Eden Terraces
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Ozone Homes launched the residential project Eden Terraces, made up of 132 row houses, of which some P+1 (two bedrooms and a living room), with prices starting from 71,000 euros, the developer informs in a release.The first stage of the project located in Tunari (north of Bucharest) will focus on building 6 villas, with prices starting from 710 euros per square metes plus VAT, 4 rooms, 144 square meters usable area and 250 sq m land. The sixth villa will have a price starting ...
Tourism : Taleb Rifai: Romania is a sort of 'morning star' in tourism; it is practically beginnig to shine
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The World Tourism Organization (WTO) is delighted with the new Romanian tourism potential, the medical tourism, and will continue to support Romania, as it is beginning to shine in this area, WTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai said in the opening of the medical tourism international conference.WTO will continue to support Romania, as it is some sort of 'morning star' in this area. It is practically beginning to shine in the tourism area and we are ...
Romanian spa tourism records about 1 mln tourists per year, 10 pct foreigners
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Romanian thermal tourism records about one million tourists annually, with 10 percent of them being foreigners, President of the Romanian Spa Tourism Employers' Organization Nicu Radulescu said after the opening of the international conference on health tourism.'We constantly have nearly one million tourists per year visiting Romania for our spa tourism. The total number of holidaymakers into this kind of tourism ranges between 800,000 and one ...
DoubleTree by Hilton opens new hotel in Oradea
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
DoubleTree by Hilton opened a new hotel in Oradea (western Romania) on Thursday, the second it holds in Romania.International hotel brand DoubleTree by Hilton, currently owning over 300 hotels across the world, offers its Oradea guests complete services. The hotel opens following an investment by partner owner SIF Banat Crisana and SC Calipso SA.The Oradea-based DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, having accommodation in 147 rooms, four conference ...
Telecom.IT : Bloomberg News: Romania Gets $880 Million From Mobile Phone Licenses Extension
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Romania raised 682 million euros ($880 million) from extending mobile phone licenses, the country’s telecommunications market regulator, ANCOM, said. France Telecom SA (FTE), Vodafone Group Plc, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (HTO)’s Cosmote mobile unit and two Romanian companies bought the licenses, ANCOM said in a document published on its website today. The eastern European country was seeking to get about 700 million euros from ...