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Agriculture Ministry plans to draw 3 billion euros from European funds in 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) plans to draw 3 billion euros from European funds, although the commitment assumed for 2012 stands at 2.5 billion euros, relevant Minister Daniel Constantin told a debate on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).He pointed out that the MADR budget of 2012 was maybe the weakest after '89 and in some activity areas the funds were not allocated until June at the ...
Real Estate :Less apartments built in Romania in 2011
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The number of apartments completed in Romania last year dropped by 34% compared to the boom period reached in 2008. This is the fourth largest drop in six states analyzed by a study of the Polish research company PMR quoted by Mediafax. PMR shows that 44,456 new apartments were completed last year in Romania compared to 67,255 units in 2008. In these conditions, the Romanian market ranks second among the 6 markets analysed, in point of the number of new apartments ...
Price for apartments drop up to 4.5 pct., in first six months of 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The prices asked for the apartments for sale in Romania's biggest cities dropped in the first half of 2012, between 0.5 percent in Timisoara (west) and 4.5 percent in Ploiesti (south), reads the study the imobiliare.ro portal conducted.Generally, the decrease tendency in this first half of the year was stronger for the new flats, namely by -6.7 percent at the lowest, in Cluj (central west).The average price for the new and the old flats on ...
Study: Romania’s place in top of real estate transparency
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Since 2010, Romania has dropped by 8 positions in the top of transparency in the real estate sector, from position 32 to 40 of a total of 97 markets, evaluated according to 83 criteria and characteristics, from the availability of information for investors and the quality of services to the legal frame. The study is made every other year by the American group Jones Lang La Salle, specialized in financial and consulting services ...
Number of building authorizations for residential buildings declines 3.3 percent in first 5 months of 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
A number of 14,290 building authorizations for residential buildings have been released in the first five months of this year, declining 3.3 percent from the period January-May 2012, according to the data released on Thursday by the National Institute for Statistics (INS).Significant drops in the number of building authorizations issued for residential buildings were registered in the development regions North-East (-253 authorizations), North-West ...
Tourism : Eurostat: Romanian people, first in EU at local touring
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
In 2011, ninety-three percent of the leisure travelling made by Romanians were made within the borders, as Romania is the first country in the EU in terms of local touring, according to data presented on Thursday by the Statistics office of the European Union (Eurostat).On the other hand, almost 100 percent of the Luxembourgers travel abroad, according to the 2011 data.There were 1.019 billion travels in the European Union in 2011, 76 ...
Trade : Study: Romanians cut expenses for clothes and holidays but would not give up cigarettes and alcohol
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Romanians are willing to cut expenses for clothes, electronics and household appliances and holidays, but would not give up alcohol, cigarettes, fruit and vegetables, according to a 360insights study, which analyzed the Romanians’ perception of the crisis. As for alcohol and cigarettes, Romanians are less willing than in 2010 to cut expenses. While two years ago 4 out of 10 Romanians were ready to reduce their budget for cigarettes and alcoholic ...
WWF Romania : Only a quarter of the fruits and vegetables in the supermarkets come from Romania
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Only a quarter of the fruits and vegetables and only half of the dairy products commercialized in the biggest supermarkets in Romania come from Romania, Magor Csibi, manager World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Romania stated, at the lauch of the Retailer Scorecard. “The domineering position of chains of shops becomes bigger and bigger, going to a possible situation of monopoly, and ...
Do Romanians buy washing machines worth 900 euro in full crisis ?
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The answer is YES, the Greek Theofilos Romaios ( 43 years old) considers, as he is the new manager of the luxury household products Miele. The company wants this year to increase its turnover by approximately 16% up to 2.5 million euro. “The Romanians value quality, even during the crisis. Last year, we have almost 600 clients, they acquired both washing machines – our main product – as well as dryers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners or ovens” ...
Healthcare : Romanian versus EU hospitals
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The 27 EU member states have together 12,800 public and private hospitals according to centralized data of Wall-stereet.ro. Most of them are in France and Germany, countries which cumulate more than a third at EU level. In 2010 Romania had 428 state hospitals and 25 private ones. Since than 67 public hospitals were closed down while several private companies inaugurated 10 private hospitals. At present, we do not know how many hospitals there are. ...
Real estate market enters blockage due to discrepancy between buyers' budgets, prices sellers claim
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The real estate market entered blockage against the background of a major discrepancy between the buyers' budgets and the ever soaring prices sellers claim, reads a Temple House release sent on Monday.Paradoxically, against the background of the world economic and financial downturn and the ever harsher crediting terms, the owners of the flats for sale are ever more inflexible in negotiations. Moreover, they have asked considerably higher prices, ...
Online tourism market, soaring 30 percent in January-May 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The online payment sales of the tourism operators in Romania went up by more than 30 percent in the first five months of 2012 on a year-on-year basis, according to the PayU system data, reads a release of the company.'As the things in the offline market are going bad, the online environment provides all the foundations so as the tourism agencies should boost their sales, integrated solutions with their internal booking systems, multiple possibilities ...
Low-cost carriers prompt 55 pct rise in Otopeni International Airport passenger flow
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The first official data on aircraft movements on the ‘Henri Coanda' (Otopeni) Airport shows that in April, the first month when the country's largest air traffic facility hosted both traditional carriers and low-cost operators, traffic reached about 625,000 passengers compared to just a little over 400,000 in the same month last year.In April 2012, traffic on the ‘Henri Coanda' Airport (located in Otopeni, 18 km north of Bucharest) grew by ...
Over 10.7 million passengers use air flights in 2011
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Over 10.7 million passengers used air flights to and from Romania, but also domestic air flights, in 2011, according to the statistics of the Transports and Infrastructure Ministry.Out of the 10.78 million passengers, 9.31 million used the international air flights and 1.46 million the domestic air flights.The total number of passengers using the air transport in 2011 is slightly declining compared with 2010, when 10.12 million passengers ...
Targu Mures - Hurghada charter summer flights
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The management of Targu Mures Transilvania International Airport (central Romania) on Thursday announced that starting from the second half of June until September 20 this year weekly charter flights would be made to the Egyptian tourist and SPA resort Hurghada.According to Chairman of the Board of RA Transilvania Airport Mihail Porutiu, the charter flights will be operated by Air Arabia Egypt airline, with an Airbus A320 aircraft with 168 seats, every ...
Romania should plan an agriculture strategy for at least 25 years
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Secretary of state with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Achim Irimescu, responsible with the technical directions within the European Union, says in an interview granted to Agerpres that Romania should have a strategy for agriculture to span at least 25 years from now on, where several major points should be set. Achim Irimescu added that the Ministry of Agriculture will hold a tender offer by this autumn to appoint some consultancy ...
Car Scrappage Scheme' to be supplemented with 30,000 vouchers this year
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The ‘Car Scrappage Scheme' will be supplemented with 30,000 vouchers this year, Environment and Forestry Minister Rovana Plumb told a press conference on Monday.'The Car Scrappage Scheme' will continue this year in a first stage with the release of 15,000 vouchers on the market and after the rectifications we plan to issue other 15,000 vouchers for natural persons. By the end of this month, we shall complete the procedure for releasing on the ...
Cars: New motor vehicle registrations, down 5.06pct in May 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
New motor vehicle registrations in Romania declined more than 5 percent in May 2012, to 10,235 units, while automobile registrations were down 8.60 percent from May 2011, according to statistics with the DRPCIV Driver's Licences and Motor Vehicle Registration Directorate.In May 2012, 10,236 new motor vehicles were registered, which is a drop by 5.06-percent from May 2011.As far as the decline in automobile registrations is concerned, the ...
APIA: Local auto sales down 12 pct in first 5 months of 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles fell by 12 percent in the first 5 months of 2012 compared to the same period of last year, the Association of Automotive Manufacturers and Importers (APIA) informs in a release. Sales of passenger cars plunged by 11.9 percent.'The situation is kind of similar to what is happening in the EU (minus 7.7 percent), with states (developed states) reporting 41 percent - 43 percent declines,' the APIA ...
Romania, ranked third in EU top of passenger car registrations
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Romania car market is among the markets of the European Union (EU) with the strongest growth rate in the first five months of this year, when 26,017 cars were registered, up 12.4 percent compared to 23,152 cars in the same period last year, statistics published on Friday by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association / ACEA / inform. Higher percentage increases than in Romania were registered in Hungary (20.4 percent) and Estonia (18 percent). ...