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Archive for December, 2009

News from Romania. Archive for December, 2009



UPDATE Romanias president: Education redundancies targets locum tenants and the retired. Unions take the matter to court

UPDATE Romanian President Traian Basescu talked on Tuesday evening on Romanian TV channel OTV about the decision of cutting jobs in the [... more]

Romanias president: Education redundancies targets locum tenants and the retired

Romanian President Traian Basescu talked on Tuesday evening on Romanian TV channel OTV about the decision of cutting jobs in the education department. He said [... more]

What the newspapers say: December 30, 2009

Boc Cabinet cuts red tape of a motorway made with borrowed money. Elsewhere in the news, 2010 will be the year of price increases in Romania. Last but not [... more]

The government will decrease by 15,000 the number of financed jobs in education

The maximum number of financed jobs for the pre-universitary education for 2010 dropped by 15,000. Thus, according to an emergency ordinance, published on [... more]

Romanian sailors on board of a British boat captured by pirates in Somalia

Pirates in Somalia captured on Monday, in the Aden Gold a British boat with 26 sailors, including some Romanians, AFP informs quoting an official. The ship, St [... more]

Its official: budgetary personnel will not receive meal, gift and holiday tickets in 2010

The government's emergency ordinance forbidding all public institutions to offer meal tickets, gift and holiday tickets was published on Tuesday in the [... more]

Romanias Parliament to debate the 2010 budget starting January 11

The Parliament decided on Tuesday the schedule for the approval of the 2010 budget: the Parliament is due to unite on January 11 for an extraordinary session [... more]

European funds for agriculture: 1.7 billion euro contracted, 182 million payments

Over 9,000 rural development projects were contracted for European financing until December 2009, worth about 1.7 billion euro. 2010 bring about a decrease the [... more]

What the newspapers say: December 29, 2009

Most newspapers read about the critics of the international press towards the new Romanian Tourism minister, Elena Udrea. Romania still has a chance to become a [... more]

Electricity will be up to 4% more expensive. Natural gas price remains stable

The price of electricity in Romania will go up by 3.5-4% from January 1 2010, President of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) Petru Lificiu told [... more]

Justice Ministry: Nicolae Popa extradition request fulfils the Indonesian law standards

The extradition request sent by Romanian authorities in Indonesia in Nicolae Popa's case fulfils the conditions of the Indonesian law. The statement was [... more]

Ciorogarla thieves - investigated for murder, drugs and ammunition traffic

The thieves who stole arms from them military depot in Ciorogarla (close to Bucharest) hid the weapons for some time, dismantled them and erased the serial [... more]

Ciorogarla thieves - investigated for murder, drugs and ammunition traffic

The thieves who stole arms from them military depot in Ciorogarla (close to Bucharest) hid the weapons for some time, dismantled them and erased the serial [... more]

PD-L established a schedule for adopting the budget by January 15

LibDem leaders discussed about respecting an accelerated schedule for approving the state budget law for 2010 on Monday, during the Political Office session. On [... more]

Ex-PM: The greatest danger for PNL is a tactical PDL - PSD deal for introducing a majority uninominal vote

The greatest danger for the liberals in Romania at this moment is "a tactical deal between PDL and PSD" to introduce the majority uninominal vote, in [... more]

Twenty Years Later

Twenty years after the fall of communism, Romania is the seventh largest member of the European Union and an active participant in NATO; it provides its people [... more]

Managers forecast weaker economic activity for all sectors. More redundancies to follow

The activity in the processing industry, retail commerce and services will shrink during December 2009 - February 2010, in comparison with the previous quarter, [... more]

80.000 jobs will be restructured in the public system

Significant cuts are expected in the state system in 2010. "The budget passed now through the Parliament will reduce certain staff spending. For this [... more]

What the newspapers say: December 28, 2009

"Romania will remain an under-developed country, without foreign power". Elsewhere in the news, Romania absorbed less than 3% of the European [... more]

What the newspapers say: December 24, 2009

Boc did well at the votes with "traitors" from PSD and PNL. Elsewhere in the news, Romania needs to send the European Commission data on a series of [... more]

Successful reorganisation depends on fresh money

Consultants in the field hope that the high number of voluntary insolvencies will result in an increase in the number of successful streamlining [... more]

Catarama sees furniture market down in 2010, as well

Furniture industry group Elvila, controlled by businessman Viorel Catarama, will end this year with a 20% decline, a trend that is in line with the [... more]

ZF News

Ionut Popescu, a member of PD-L (Democratic Liberal Party) and adviser of Prime Minister Emil Boc, is the new general manager of the Property Fund (FP), [... more]

PM Emil Boc: I approved the 2010 budget/ all taxes and social contributions remain unchanged

The government approvied on Wednesday night the 2010 budget, PM Emil Boc informed at the end of a meeting. He added that we will have a slight economic increase [... more]

Designated Communication minister: All six auctions for terrestrial digital television will be simultaneously launches in the beginning of 2010

Digitalisations: this is going to be the challenge in 2010-2011. All six auctions for terrestrial digital television will be simultaneously launched in the [... more]

Bocs government received more votes than it hoped: where did the 36 votes come from?

Emil Boc's government obtained 36 more votes than the 240 votes it was counting on and most came from the Social Democrats despite the direct orders of the [... more]

President Traian Basescu: I will not hesitate to suspend any minister if investigated by prosecutors

President Traian Basescu told the new ministers of the executive that their success depends on the way they tackle and collaborate with the opposition and that [... more]

The race for the Rosia Montana gold: Romanian politicians, the controversial project and Gabriel Resources

Three ministers from the future Boc Cabinet, namely Adriean Videanu, Laszlo Borbely and Kelemen Hunor expressed publicly their opinion and intentions in regards [... more]

Romanian National Agency for Fiscal Administration to monitor more closely car washers, hair saloons and restaurants

Both PM Emil Boc and the designated Finance minister Sebastian Vladescu expressed their intention to modify the minimum tax, aiming it towards high tax fraud [... more]

Gas prices stable, but electricity could cost more

The Romanian National Authority for Energy Regulations (ANRE) decided that the price industrial consumers and households pay for natural gas remains stable in [... more]

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