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Romanian Dacia To Launch Fuel-Efficient Sandero on Local Mkt In 1H ‘09

12:57, 02 Feb. 2009
Romanian carmaker Dacia, the local unit of French Renault, will launch in Romania, in the first half of the year, the Logan Sandero model equipped with a fuel-efficient 1.2- liter gasoline engine, which develops 75 HP.

At Least 10-15% Of Jobs In Romanian Food Industry To Be Scrapped This Year – Union

12:55, 02 Feb. 2009
At least 10-15% of the 175,000 - 190,000 employees in the Romanian food industry could lose their jobs this year, said Monday Dragos Frumosu, head of the national food industry union federation.

Romanian RAFO Onesti Resumes Ops To Complete Equip Upgrade Program

11:35, 02 Feb. 2009
Romanian refinery Rafo Onesti resumed operations Monday, to carry out the equipment upgrade program, and almost 900 of its 1,300 employees returned to work, two weeks after the return of its first 350 employees.

Romania’s Chemical Plant Azomures Resumes Ops

11:12, 02 Feb. 2009
Romania’s chemical plant Azomures (AZO.RO) resumed operations Monday and its approximately 2,500 employees put on technical unemployment in December returned to work.

Romania’s ’09 Budget Is Illegal, Immoral, Top Secret – Opposition VP

17:02, 01 Feb. 2009
Romanian Liberal Party vice-president Eugen Nicolaescu said Sunday during a press conference that the 2009 state budget draft was illegally approved, is immoral because it doesn’t keep promises made during elections, and is also top secret.

Romanian PM Chancellery To Cut 40-50% Of Jobs

16:28, 01 Feb. 2009
The organizational chart of the Romanian Prime Minister’s Chancellery will be reduced to 144-154 employees from the current 304, and the government will restrict the employees’ mobile phone calls and lower their gas consumption for government cars.

Romania Estimates To Collect RON13.44B In Tax Per Pft This Year

16:01, 01 Feb. 2009
Romania estimates to collect 13.445 billion lei (EUR1=RON4.2775) this year from the tax per profit, up 3.19% compared to 2008, and banks will contribute RON750 million, 6.95% more than last year.

Romanian Farmers May Sell Milk, Eggs In Mkts As Of Feb 1 Only If Registered With Sanitary Auth

15:31, 01 Feb. 2009
Romanian farmers who want to sell food products such as milk and eggs in markets need to be registered with the sanitary veterinary authority and observe hygiene and labeling conditions as of Feb 1, and will be checked in the upcoming period.

Romania’s Budgets Always Included Unpaid Bills Of Previous Year – Ex Fin Min

15:23, 01 Feb. 2009
The payment of bills left over from the previous financial year has always been a constant in Romania’s state budgets, said Sunday former finance minister Varujan Vosganian, adding the current government is partly to blame for the 2008 budget deficit, which doubled in December.

Agencies, Authorities Coordinated By Romanian PM Could Be Transferred To Govt Secretariat, Deputy PM

14:51, 01 Feb. 2009
Agencies and authorities coordinated by the Romanian prime minister are being evaluated by performance and budget and some, such as the Sanitary Veterinary Authority and the Anti-doping Authority, could be transferred to the Government Secretariat General or the deputy prime minister.

Romanian MEP Rares Niculescu To Be Appointed Govt Spokesman

13:51, 01 Feb. 2009
Romanian MEP Rares Niculescu is the spokesman for the Romanian Government, Niculescu told MEDIAFAX Sunday.

Romania’s Financing Needs To Stay Extremely High – Analysts

13:37, 01 Feb. 2009
Romania’s financing needs will continue to grow, despite a sharp contraction of the current account deficit in absolute terms increasing the possibility of getting external loans, but authorities must keep in mind that such arrangements entail strong commitments.

Keeping Contribution To Romanian Pvt Pension Funds At 2% In ‘09 Lowers Contributions By EUR80M

12:57, 01 Feb. 2009
Keeping contributions to the Romanian mandatory private pension system at 2% of contributors’ gross income this year will lower by over EUR80 million the sum that should have been transferred to the accounts of over 4 million private pension fund contributors.

Five Romanians Rape Romanian Woman In Italy – Press

12:19, 01 Feb. 2009
A 22-year-old Romanian woman was raped in Italy by five Romanians, who were arrested by Italian police within hours, Italian paper Il Tempo said in its online edition Sunday.

Romanian Police Arrest Three Suspects In Major Cocaine Bust Case

12:13, 01 Feb. 2009
Three of the suspects in the case of the massive cocaine transport found in Constanta Sud Agigea port, southeastern Romania, were placed under preventive arrest Sunday.

Romanian Labor, Education, Transport Mins To Spend Nearly EUR10B This Year

20:16, 31 Ian. 2009
Romania’s Ministries of Labor, Education and Transport will be able to spend a total RON38.9 billion (EUR9.7 billion, or 6.7% of GDP) from the state budget, European funds and self-financing.

Romanian Liberals Must Nominate Presidential Candidate Soon – Party VP

20:07, 31 Ian. 2009
Romania liberal leaders agree that they need to nominate a presidential candidate as soon as possible, liberal vice-president Ludovic Orban said in a press conference Saturday, adding talk of a potential candidacy on his part is premature.

Romanian Pension Point To Increase To RON718.4 In April, RON732.8 In Oct

19:42, 31 Ian. 2009
The Romanian government decided to increase the value of one pension point to RON718.4 from RON697.5 as of April 1, and to RON732.8 as of October 1, according to the 2009 social insurance budget draft.

Romanian Employees’ Social Insurance Contributions Upped To 10.5% Of Gross Wage As Of Feb

19:25, 31 Ian. 2009
Social insurance contributions paid by Romanian employees will increase by one percentage point as of Feb 1, to 10.5% from 9.5% of the employee’s gross monthly income, and employers will pay 20.8% to 30.8% of their employees’ gross income.

Romanian Ministries Obliged To Ensure Co-Funding For EU-Funded Projs

19:14, 31 Ian. 2009
Romanian ministries will be obligated in 2009 to ensure in full and as top priority funds needed to co-finance programs benefiting from external financing and are banned from redistributing this money to other projects in “budget revisions throughout the year".

Romanian ’09 Budget Def At RON18.8B, Pensions Budget Surplus At RON221M

18:51, 31 Ian. 2009
Romania’s state budget revenues are estimated this year at RON75.6 billion and expenses at RON94.5 billion, with a deficit of RON18.8 billion, while the estimate for the social insurance budget for the public pension system indicates a surplus of RON221 million.

Romanian Social Democrats Discussed Need A Presidential Candidate Who Can Win – Leader

18:00, 31 Ian. 2009
Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana said Saturday, after the meeting of the party’s parliamentary groups, that there were talks about party’s need to come up with a presidential candidate who could win the election.

Romanian Tourism Min To Partner Up With Owners To Promote Castle Bran

17:51, 31 Ian. 2009
Romanian tourism minister Elena Udrea said Saturday after a meeting with Archduke Dominic of Habsburg, owner of Romania’s Castle Bran, that they agreed to have an “active partnership” for the promotion of this tourist attraction.

Romanian Govt To Find Money To Up Teacher’s Wages Further If Education Reform Is Achieved – PM

14:41, 31 Ian. 2009
Romanian Prime Minster Emil Boc said Saturday that if reform in the education sector is achieved, the government will find resources to increase teachers’ wages.

Austrian Embassy Driver Who Killed A Pedestrian In Bucharest Can’t Be Tried In Romania

14:24, 31 Ian. 2009
The Austrian Embassy employee who killed a 22-year-old woman in a car accident in Bucharest Saturday morning has jurisdictional immunity and won’t be tried by Romanian authorities, judicial sources told MEDIAFAX Saturday.

Romanian Govt Prepares Plan To Relaunch Agriculture – PM

14:20, 31 Ian. 2009
The Romanian government will come up with a special program to relaunch the country’s agriculture sector to make Romania an exporter of food products, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Saturday.

Brasov Armed Robbery Suspect Is Moldovan, Has Criminal Record – Minister

13:22, 31 Ian. 2009
Moldovan citizen Serghei Gorbunov was detained by police in Brasov, central Romania, because he didn’t return to the Craiova Prison and he is among the suspects in the armed robbery that occurred in Brasov Thursday, the head of the local police said.

Local Police In Brasov Deny Having Seized Armed Robbery Suspect

12:31, 31 Ian. 2009
Local police in Brasov, central Romania, haven’t detained any suspect in the armed robbery that occurred Thursday evening, local police spokesman Liviu Naghi told MEDIAFAX Saturday.

Romanian Police Seize Main Suspect In Brasov Armed Robbery – Interior Min

11:36, 31 Ian. 2009
Romanian interior minister Liviu Dragnea said Saturday on Antena 3 that police seized the main suspect in the armed robbery that occurred Thursday evening in the central Romanian city of Brasov, which left two people dead and one injured.

Three Kilometers Of Railway Stolen In W Romania

11:01, 31 Ian. 2009
Police and prosecutors in Romania’s western county of Bihor are investigating employees of a local firm, suspected of having stolen three kilometers of rail, police said.

Romanian Govt Postponed Wage Hikes In Education By One Month

10:28, 31 Ian. 2009
The Romanian government put off by one month, to April instead of March, the first stage of wage increases in the education sector.

Romania’s Ctrl Bk Set To Ease Monetary Policy Next Wk – Analysts

20:37, 30 Ian. 2009
The National Bank of Romania, or BNR, will decide on Wednesday to ease the monetary policy, analysts said, most of them betting on a key rate cut.

Romanian Press Passes Law On Nationalized Houses

20:24, 30 Ian. 2009
Romanian President Traian Basescu Friday passed the law on nationalized houses, initiated by former conservative leader Dan Voiculescu, after saying Monday evening he no longer has any means of going against the normative act.

Organized Crime Officers Find One Ton Of Cocaine In S Romania

19:18, 30 Ian. 2009
Nearly one ton of cocaine was found in the container lying since December 2008 in port Constanta Sud – Agigea, southern Romania, organized crime officer Aurelian Pavel said Friday.

GM Incomes In Romanian Ministries Reach RON20,000, Wg Bonuses Included – PM

19:09, 30 Ian. 2009
The incomes of the general managers in the Romanian ministries amount to 20,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2775) with some bonuses included, which imposes the elimination of bonuses such as that for the use of a foreign language, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday.

Romanian Devt Ministry May Finish Constr Started By Developers In Distress

18:36, 30 Ian. 2009
Local authorities may buy certain apartment buildings started by private developers in distress, then the Romanian Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing, or MDRL, would finalize and deliver them to city halls.

Italian Police Keeps Romanian Rape Suspects In Protective Custody

16:41, 30 Ian. 2009
The six Romanians arrested after the rape committed on a 21-year old Italian girl in the outskirts of Rome, are kept in isolation because they are under the threat of violence from the Italian inmates, while their state-provided lawyers refused to defend them for fear of retaliation.

Romanian Def Min Sacks Staff Over Missing Weapons Case

16:09, 30 Ian. 2009
Romanian defense minister Mihai Stanisoara announced Friday the dismissal of the Air Force General Staff head Constantin Croitoru and the head of the counterintelligence chief of the General Staff, in the case of missing weapons from the military warehouse in Ciorogarla, near Bucharest.

Romanian Mothers To Receive Fin Aid For Each Baby Delivered In Multiple Birth-Draft Law

15:59, 30 Ian. 2009
Romanian democrat liberal deputy Mircia Giurgiu will submit to Parliament on Monday a draft law stipulating women who give birth to twins or multiples will receive for each baby the childbirth indemnity and the child benefit, which are now paid for one baby.

Madonna Ready To Entertain Romanians In Famous „Sticky and Sweet” Tour

15:18, 30 Ian. 2009
Queen of Pop Madonna also included Romania in her "Sticky and Sweet" tour aiming to promote her new multi Grammy-nominated album "Hard Candy."