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Development index of Romanian Internet decreases by almost 8.14%
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The development index of the Romanian Internet decreased in June by almost 8.14% compared with May, according to data from trafic.ro. 'Net Index decreases by 8.14% compared with May, to 20,526.08. At category level, the highest rise is recorded by Tourism (plus 19.35%). Net Index decreases the most for Sport category (23.36%),' reads the document. The most single visitors were recorded by the website okazii.ro, with 2,568,297 single visitors, down by 351,624 compared with ...
Statistics : Romania's population decreases by 5,578 people in May
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Romania's population decreased by 5,578 people in May 2011 and by 7,410 people in April, with a negative population growth having been recorded, according to provisional data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Thus, in May, 15,800 children were born (8.7 liveborn infants per 1,000 people), by 1,956 more than in April, but the number of people who died in May stood at 21,378 (11.8 deaths per 1,000 people), by 124 deceased people more than in April. ...
Textiles, IT and furniture bring Romania's exports to UK, 40 pct up
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Romania's exports to Great Britain increased by 40 percent, during the first four months of the year, when Romania was exporting electronics, textiles, IT products and furniture totaling 400 million euros, chairman of the British - Romanian Chamber of Commerce Raymond Breden, told a news conference, on Monday. 'Exports grew by 40 percent, over the first four months of the year, I mean Romania's exports to Great Britain, after they went up not less than 50 percent, last year when ...
Google launches in Romania Google Maps navigation for handsets
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Google has launched in Romania the Google Maps (Beta) navigation service for mobile phones. Those who wish to use the service, which is free of charge, need to have a smartphone with GPS and Android operating system, and mobile internet. “This new service comes with whatever one would expect to find in a GPS navigation system- 3D view, voice guiding and instant re-directioning,” says Dan Bulucea, country manager in Google Romania. The navigation offers access to the most recent ...
EU funds worth 86 million euro for broadband internet for Romania might be unlocked in November 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romanian authorities and EC officials agreed on the way to use some EU funds worth 86 million euro for the creation of an internet broadband infrastructure in the so called white areas in Romania, the areas without internet possibilities), Communications minister Valerian Vreme said. He expressed his hope that the contract will be signed around November and the project implemented in 24 months. The EC has been waiting since 2007 a project from Romania for the money and in 2010 it ...
Romanians Pay Near EU Average For Clothing, Less For Food
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The prices of clothing, consumer electronics and personal transport equipment in Romania are close to the European Union average, but Romanians pay less for food, drink, tobacco, restaurant meals or hotel stays.The price level for consumer goods and services was 59% of the EU average in Romania in 2010, nearly the lowest in Europe, according to a report published Tuesday by Eurostat. The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages is 67% of the EU average, while the price of alcohol of tobacco ...
Transport Minister: 65 new metro stations, to be inaugurated in next 10 years, with an 8.5 billion-euro investment
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anca Boagiu, at the inauguration of the two metro stations Pajura (Jiului) and Bazilescu Park in Bucharest on Friday, said that 8.5 billion euros will be invested in the next 10 years for building 65 new metro stations.'Through the two stations inauguration we show that deadlines in important projects can be met in Romania, too, by Romanian construction companies, without supplementary costs. We are now in the recovery period, but in the next ...
Bulgarian regional development minister launches Danube Bridge 1 rehabilitation
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Bulgaria expects Romania to show commitment in projects of bilateral importance, Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev said in the northern city of Ruse, quoted by FOCUS News Agency.The minister launched the rehabilitation of Danube Bridge 1 together with Hungary’s ambassador to Sofia Judith Lang.The minister noted Romania had not come out with decisions about lower Danube bridge tolls and the rehabilitation of the facility, although Bulgaria had held negotiations with its ...
Bucharest regional aviation centre to become operational in 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romania will have an aviation centre for flight staff training and specialisation, Director General Catalin Radu of the Civil Aviation General Directorate at the Transport Ministry Catalin Radu told Agerpres.'The administration boards of three companies - TAROM, ROMATSA and the Bucharest Airport Corporation - have approved the construction of this centre, which will materialise this year. It will be designed to provide staff training programmes for the aviation industry in this ...
Letter of Intent with the IMF: Romanian authorities commit to continue efforts of restructuring healthcare system
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Romanian authorities commit to continue the efforts of restructuring the healthcare system in order to ensure the quality of the system's functioning in keeping with the budget earmarked, according to the Letter of Intent agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).The IMF on Wednesday publicly released the Romanian Government's Letter of Intent and the Memorandum of Understanding between the two parties.'In the healthcare system supplementary actions are ...
First center for rare diseases in Romania, in partnership with Government of Norway
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Ministers of Health of Romania and Norway, Cseke Attila and Anne-Grete Strom-Erichsen, planted together a tree in the courtyard of the first center for rare diseases in our country, opened on Tuesday in Zalau northwest of Bucharest as a symbol of cooperation between the two states in the framework of the project initiated by Prader Willi Romania Association (APWR) - 'Norwegian-Romanian Partnership (NoRo) for progress in rare diseases', the investment financier. 'What we see here, ...
Agricultural census : Romania's agrifood trade deficit narrows 29 pct in Q1 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romania's agrifood trade deficit narrowed 29 percent in Q1 2011, from 425.12 million euros in the first three months of 2010 to 301.83 million euros now, according to data with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR).Romania exported agrifood products worth nearly 712.43 million euros in the first three months of 2011, up 1.5 times from the similar period of 2010, while imports recorded a 15.5-percent rise. Q1 2011 food imports stood at 1.014 billion euros, up from ...
Cattle and swine livestock drop 30 percent over past eight years (agricultural census)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The swine and cattle livestock amount dropped 34.8 and 30.9 percent and the sheep and goat livestock amount went up by 15.9 and 66.3 percent over the past eight years according to the provisional results of the General Agricultural Census published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Thursday. Compared to the same census in 2002, the number of cattle dropped to 1.985 million and the swine to 5.387 million, whereas sheep went up to 8.386 million and goats to 1.237 ...
Romania is Europe's only country where forests must be protected from their owners
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romania is the only country in Europe where forests must be protected from their very owners, who clear the forest illegally, said National Forestry Public Company managing director Valerian Solovastru on Friday.He stressed there are instances when the owners of forests located in a protected area cannot benefit from it, although they pay for its guard and management; therefore, he said, a solution will have to be found on a European level to give subsidies to such owners, a move ...
Cow milk collected by milking units, 8.9 percent less in 2010
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The quantity of cow milk collected by processing milking units in agricultural holdings and collecting centres dropped 87,838 tonnes in 2010 equal to 8.9 percent, compared to the previous year, according to data released on Thursday, June 30, by the National Statistics Institute (INS). The sharpest fall in production, of 10.3 percent (422 tonnes) was reported in powder milk. The largest quantities of cow milk were collected in the regions Centru (30.5 percent), Nord-Vest (22.3 ...
INS: Mutton and goat meat production, 228.5 percent higher in 2010
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The production of mutton and goat meat went up by 228.5 percent in 2010 on a year-over-year basis according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Thursday, June 30. The beef production went up 13.7 percent and the pork production went up 5.4 percent over the same interval. The number of slaughtered cattle in specialised industrial units went up by 10.5 percent compared to the previous year and the number of pigs went up by 0.5 percent. The number of ...
CAP reform: Romania backs firmly fair distribution of direct payments between member states
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romania backs firmly the idea of a fair distribution of direct payments between the member states within the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014-2020, according to data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) on Romania's stance within CAP reform. On the other hand, Romania does not consider opportune the European Commission (EC)'s proposal to introduce an upper limit (ceiling) for the level of direct payments allocated to large farms. In this ...
Romania receives almost 35m euros from exports of live animals, poultry in Q1
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Romania received from the exports of live animals and poultry almost 35 million euros in Q1 2011, up by 4.7% compared with the same period in 2010 (33.37 million euros), according to data sent by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). Thus, in Q1 2011, as many as 16,725 tonnes of live animals and poultry were exported to the EU market and extra-EU one, especially cattle, sheepgoats, chickens, duck and geese, as well as horses, donkeys and mules. In Q1 ...
Over 2.5 mln foreign tourists have visited Romania in first five months of this year
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Arrivals of foreign visitors in Romania, registered at border crossing points were in the first five months of 2.568 million, down 3 percent as compared to same period last year, a release of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) informs. Most foreign visitors came from countries located in Europe (94.6 percent) and 59.9 percent of the total arrivals of foreign visitors in Romania were from the European Union Member States, with highest number of registered arrivals from ...
Android smartphones - 25pct market share in Romania
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Mobile phones built on Android platform have a market share of 25 percent in Romania, said on Monday, at the conference to launch a new Google service, Dan Bulucea, director of Google Romania, citing a Counter Stat study, published recently. Dan Bulucea added that, worldwide, 1 of 5 sold phone is a smart one, while 2010 was the first year when more of these types of mobile devices were sold than PCs. 'At the end of 2010, it was the first time when the number of ...