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Raed Arafat: Romania among countries benefiting from advanced emergency healthcare services
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Romania is among the countries benefiting from advanced emergency healthcare services that still needs development, but whose main strong point is it is an integrated system, Health Ministry's Deputy State Secretary Raed Arafat told Agerpres, on Tuesday March 27.It ranks quite well among the EU healthcare systems, it is functional, and many countries wish they had it, and it deals not only with emergency cases, but also intervenes in collective ...
Romanian Association of Accredited Stem Cell Banks is set up
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Romanian Association of Accredited Stem Cell Banks (ARBACS) has been set up, in Bucharest. It promotes the moral, the ethic and the scientific principles of the Companies storing stem cells, in Romania. ARBACS was founded on the initiative of three stem cell companies, namely Biogenis, Cord Blood Center and Stem SURE.The Association is aimed at enabling as many as Romanian parents-to-be to have access ...
Telecom.IT : Communications authority head says proper cross-border radio frequency management required
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The implementation of new technologies greatly depends on the quality of the signal each state is called to properly manage, particularly in border areas, Catalin Marinescu, president of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) on Thursday told a press conference organized on the occasion of the regional meeting on the use of the mobile communications spectrum.'It is highly important that states in the region ...
Trade : Consumer goods spending up 5.4 pct in national currency terms in 2011
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Romanians' consumer goods spending was up an average 5.4 percent in national leu currency terms in 2011 as compared to the prior year, mainly amid the inflation level, reveals a GfK Romania survey .Spending for foodstuffs increased 12 percent by value, mainly amid the price rises, while personal care products and home-cleaning products saw a rise of 7 percent and 6 percent respectively from the prior year, the survey shows.The Romanians' spending ...
Money shortage led 73 percent Romanians to give up healthcare in 2010
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
73 percent of the people of Romania gave up healthcare in 2010 due to money shortage, reads a press release issued by the Romanian Association of International Pharmaceutical Drugs Manufacturers (ARPIM).'This figure should make authorities aware and raise multiple questions, especially as we are talking about millions of people who did not go to the doctor when they were ill, for fear of expensive tests and pharmaceutical drugs and who do not go to a medical examination unless ...
Austrians choose Romanian farm land
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A growing number of Austrian farmers are buying land in Hungary and Romania. Austrian consultant Harald Strassner from Pöttsching who is a consultant for Austrian investors looking for Romanian land said those that have so far taken the move have had only positive results. Strassner is himself an organic farmer who for several years has had land in Hungary and now together with other farmers in Burgenland has expanded to buy land in Romania.As a consultant he currently has 630 ...
Romania not entered on ERDN website, Agriculture Minister says
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Romania is currently not entered on the website of the European Rural Development Network (ERDN), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Stelian Fuia told the National Rural Development Network - NRDN launch conference on Thursday.'The Romanian Rural Development Network does not exist on the website of the relevant European network. When you click on ‘Romania' you get a message that the partner has not been selected, although the network is active. I consider that this ...
660 million euros out of European funds invested in viticulture and winemaking
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The viticulture and winemaking sector in Romania has achieved a great performance as regards the absorption of European funds, with almost 660 million euros invested so far, said Emil Dumitru, councillor within the National Interprofessional Viticulture and Winemaking Organization (ONIV), during the conference in the opening of the International Wine Salon Vinvest Timisoara.'The viticulture and winemaking sector in Romania has witnessed a major transformation once we joined the ...
As many as 22 Romanian and foreign wine makers to display in Vinvest Timisoara wine trade show
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Timisoara will play host, April 6-8, 2012, to the 9th edition of the Vinvest International Wine Trade Show, where 22 wine makers and 6 distributors from Romania and abroad will be displaying the best and most be-medalled own wines.'The Romanian wine will have the biggest share in Vinvest, but there will also be wines from Italy, France, South Africa, Chile and Argentine. At the same time, the show will also gather companies providing related services, including providers of ...
LAPAR proposes initiating some laws on agricultural land merging
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The League of Romanian Agricultural Producers' Associations (LAPAR) proposes initiating some laws on agricultural land merging, taking into account the owners' requests and the national interest also. 'We propose the initiation of some laws leading to land merging, taking into account the owners' requests, but also the national interest, which must prevail. Concerning the efficient use of the land fund, of the results of the research in the field, as well as the need for taking ...
Ciolos: Romanian farmers to benefit by another 3 billion euros in new CAP
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Romanian farmers through the new common agricultural policy (CAP) will be able to benefit by another 3 billion euros to be added to the allocation existing in the current budget period, said European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos in a recording for the representatives of the League of the Association of Farmers in Romania (LAPAR), which was presented during a conference on subjects connected to agriculture on Tuesday. 'Romania is one of the few member states whose ...
Romanian breweries make 17 M hl in 2011
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Romanian breweries made 17 million hl beer in 2011, the same as in the previous year, while Brewers of Romania Association sold over 15.6 million hl, the Association's general manager Constantin Bratu said on Wednesday. 'Whilst the beer market reached 20.2 million hl, in 2008, it dropped to 17 million in 2010, but we are pleased that the brewers stabilized the market through their efforts, in 2011,' Bratu explains, adding that 96 percent of the beer for sale is made in Romania, ...
Bulgaria-Romania 2nd Danube Bridge to Be Completed Nov 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The construction of the long-anticipated second bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube will be completed by November 2012, according to the Bulgarian government, quoted by novinite.com. The construction of the bridge between Bulgaria's Vidin and Romania's Calafat by the Spanish company FCC was inspected Monday by Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski and EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev.Speaking in Vidin, Moskovski reminded that the governments of Bulgaria ...
Transfer of low-cost flights doubles passenger traffic on Otopeni Airport
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The low-cost flights, which have been organized on the Baneasa Airport (northern Bucharest) since 2005, were transferred to the main airport in Romania, the Henri Coanda International Airport at Otopeni (near Bucharest), a fact that will lead to a 45 percent growth of traffic, according to the information supplied by the Aeroporturi National Company in Bucharest (CNAB). According to CNAB estimates, after March 25 the passenger traffic on the Otopeni Airport will increase by about ...
Transport Minister unhappy with work pace on Orastie-Sibiu motorway lot 1
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Alexandru Nazare, who on Sunday inspected the construction site of the Orastie - Sibiu motorway (lot 1) in the area of the Balomir community, asked the contractor to come up with a revised plan of work, voicing his discontent at the pace of the activity performed on this motorway stretch.Nazare also cautioned the representatives of contractor Strabag that they should be aware that the observance of the deadline for the completion of the ...
Romania, together with Italy and Poland, among 'winners' of EU Transports Ministers meeting
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Romania was among the winners of the Transports Ministers meeting organized in Brussels on Thursday, after it managed to obtain the revision of the future trans-European transports network (TEN-T). Romanian obtained the most ambitious revision, after having come with new pieces of technical information, through which it proved that the new routes would be completed by 2030.A map, proposed by the Commission in October 2011, divided the routes into a priority network and a long-term ...
Volkswagen, Opel and Ford, most traded vehicle brands on SH market in Romania
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
German automobiles Volkswagen and Opel, together with American Ford manufacturer model, have been in 2012 the most traded brands on the second hand (SH) online auto market in Romania, according to data provided, on Friday, by Autoindex, the most accurate tool for measuring the SH market employed by the auto.ro portal.According to the quoted source, Volkswagen was ranked top in this classification, with over 15,000 ads posted on auto.ro since this year-start, and the average price ...
Japan promoted as tourist destination for Romanian travellers
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Japanese authorities promote Japan as a tourist destination through the Romanian tourism agencies, with the target being the client aged over 40 years old, passionate about knowledge, sensitive and wealthy, the representatives of Japan's embassy to Romania and those of the Association of Romania's Travel Agencies (ANAT) told a tourism seminar on Thursday.'Japan is perceived as a very expensive country by the Romanians. This is not entirely true. You do not have to stay in a ...
Romania tops EU new car registration in Jan.-Feb.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Romania posted the most significant increase in the new car registration in the European Union in this Jan. and Feb., recording a 54 percent rise up to 9,063 units as compared to 5,886 in the same two months of 2011, reveal statistic figures made public by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association on Thursday.Romania, in Feb., recorded the EU's second-most significant advance of new vehicle registration at 27.4 percent to 4,126 vehicles, up from 3,238 vehicles in last Feb. ...
Romanian pharmaceuticals market 50 pct higher at end-2011 from 2008
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The local market of pharmaceuticals advanced by over 50 pct in 2011 from 2008, reaching 10.8 billion RON, Antimibiotice Iasi medical director Mihaela Mosnegutu told the Pharmaceutical Industry Forum on March 14.Compared to 2008, the pharmaceuticals market advanced by RON 3.6 billion in terms of value, 50.9 pct respectively, against a growth in consumption by 319 million units, which represents a 3.3 pct addition.The main source for the value rise of the pharmaceuticals ...