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New Romanian Car Tax To Come Into Force On July 1, ’08

12:32, 24 Ian. 2008
The changes in the Romanian car registration tax will come into force on July 1. The sums collected will go from the state budget to the Environment Fund. The values in the new grid published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance are highly similar to the ones presented Wednesday by MEDIAFAX.

Romanian Pres Heckled In Iasi

12:27, 24 Ian. 2008
Romanian president Traian Basescu was booed and heckled in northeastern Romanian city Iasi, at the beginning of the speech he was about to hold. He immediately retorted saying that the event is not political, but the public offered the same response at the end of the speech.

Romania Failed To Counteract South Stream Pipeline Constr On Pol Grounds-Patriciu

11:00, 24 Ian. 2008
Romania was not able to counteract, on political grounds, the project for the construction of South Stream gas pipeline, transporting gas from Russia to Europe, Romanian oil tycoon Dinu Patriciu said Wednesday.

Romanian PM Says Parliament Must OK Criminal Probe On Ministers

21:19, 23 Ian. 2008
Romania’s Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said that Parliament has to approve the starting of criminal investigation against former and acting ministers.

EXCLUSIVE: EUR950 Tax On Euro 4 Cars In Romania

19:55, 23 Ian. 2008
The value of the Romanian car first registration tax for cars will hike two-three times for new Euro 4 cars, namely EUR420 for 1400 cubic centimeters, EUR480 at 1600 cubic centimeters and EUR950 at 1900 cubic centimeters, but it will also drop ten times for 14-15 year old Euro 1 cars, between EUR323 and EUR652.

Romania To Rein In Yearend Spending Frenzy-PM

19:14, 23 Ian. 2008
Romania's government plans to take tight measures to rein in massive budget spending in the last two months of the year to keep the country's budget deficit in check.

Romania’s Insurance Regulator Extends Deadline For Compulsory Additional RCA Reserve

16:53, 23 Ian. 2008
Romania’s insurance watchdog on Wednesday said it postponed until April 1 a regulation compelling insurers authorized to sell mandatory civil liability car policies, or RCA, to set up and preserve an additional technical reserve for insurance contracts.

Romanian Govt To Approve Single-Digit Salary Hike In 2008-PM

15:45, 23 Ian. 2008
The Romanian executive on Wednesday agreed upon a single-digit hike in average wages in 2008, with education and healthcare fields to receive the highest increases, Premier Calin Popescu Tariceanu said.

EC To Drop Infringement When Romanian Parliament OKs New Car Tax

14:15, 23 Ian. 2008
Romanian economy and finance minister Varujan Vosganian informed the members of the Romanian government that the changes to the "car pollution tax" will be promoted in the next Government meeting, and Romania will stop facing infringement once the Parliament approves these changes.

Romania To Deploy 175 Troops To Kosovo

13:26, 23 Ian. 2008
Romania will send 175 police officers and gendarmes to a Kosovo region at European Union’s choice, President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday.

Foreign Cos Appreciate Romanian Workers For Skills, Salary Demands – Report

19:12, 22 Ian. 2008
The number of Romanian women working abroad is larger than the number of men, while Romanians are considered the best employees, due to their skills and the fact that they are working overtime for modest pay, according to a report compiled by European Citizens Advice Service.

Romanian Jus Min OKs Launch Of Criminal Probe Against Eight Dignitaries

18:37, 22 Ian. 2008
Romania’s interim justice minister Teodor Meleşcanu on Tuesday sent to the prosecutors, as requested by the presidency, the files on starting criminal investigation against eight former and acting ministers.

Romanian IT&C Authority Proposes New Interconnection Fees

16:42, 22 Ian. 2008
A number of 33 fixed telephony operators could apply, starting with the second quarter of 2008, an interconnection fee of 1.15 eurocents/minute, according to a draft decision of the National Authority for the Regulation of Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI).

Romania Police Seized 2,304 Kg Narcotics, Hallucinogens In 2007

16:32, 22 Ian. 2008
The Romanian Police seized 2,304 kilograms of narcotics and hallucinogens in 2007, up 82% on year, the head of police Gheorghe Popa said Tuesday.

Romanian Interior Min Demands Crackdown On Street Violence

16:11, 22 Ian. 2008
Romanian interior minister Cristian David said Tuesday at the activity report meeting of the Romanian Police that police chiefs in cities with frequent gang wars and gang retaliations should “make room for someone better.”

Parliament Often Bent Constitution To Fit Political Interests –President

16:10, 22 Ian. 2008
Romanian President Traian Basescu told young graduates of the National Magistrates Institute on Tuesday that lawmakers have often “bent” the Constitution to make it fit political purposes.

Romanian PM Romania Supports US Missile Shield

15:12, 22 Ian. 2008
Romania supports the extension of the American missile shield project, but without “hostility” from Russia, which needs to understand that it could team up with the EU and NATO in the set up of such global protection measures, said Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.

Gas Bills Should Rise 10% In 1Q – Distrigaz Sud

14:12, 22 Ian. 2008
Natural gas prices for end-users should rise 10% in the first quarter of 2008, if the methodology set up by Romanian energy watchdog ANRE, comes into force, gas distributor Distrigaz Sud, majority-owned by French utility Gaz de France, said Tuesday.

AXN Takes “Suicidal Squirrels” Off The Air

13:50, 22 Ian. 2008
TV network AXN will take controversial “Suicidal Squirrels” cartoon off the air, Steven White, General Manager for Central Europe with AXN network said Tuesday in the meeting with the Romanian audio-visual watchdog CNA.

Romanian Leu Likely To Rebound – Ctrl Bk Governor

13:41, 22 Ian. 2008
The Romanian leu is likely to rebound after hitting a three-year low against the euro this week due to local and international jitters, central bank governor Mugur Isarescu said Tuesday.

Romanian President Criticizes Gov On Energy-Related Question

12:32, 22 Ian. 2008
Romanian President Traian Basescu criticized the government Tuesday as he did not get an answer yet to a question related to the energy sector during a meeting of the country’s defense council last year.

Romania Needs Better Governing On All Levels – President

12:30, 22 Ian. 2008
Romanian president Traian Basescu said Tuesday, at the launch of the project revising the Sustainable Development Strategy, that the country needs better governing on all levels.

EXCLUSIVE: Syrian Justice Evader Paid EUR800 For Refuge Aboard Cargo Ship

22:13, 21 Ian. 2008
Iman T cargo ship captain, Youssef Abd Al-Razzaq Tartoussi, admitted having received EUR800 from Omar Hayssam, sentenced by a Bucharest court to 20 years in jail for the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in 2005 in Iraq, to help him evade the authorities and take refuge in one of the ship’s cabin.

Romanian Physicians College Dismisses TI Allegations On Bribe Legalization

19:14, 21 Ian. 2008
The Romanian Physicians College, or CMR, on Monday dismissed the accusations of Transparency International Romania, which said CMR presented a draft act that would legalize bribe in the healthcare system.

TI Romania Urges Govt To Reject Any Attempt To Legalize Bribe In Health Sys

18:55, 21 Ian. 2008
The Romanian government must firmly reject any act that might legalize bribe in the healthcare system, Transparency International Romania said in a statement Monday.

Romania’s Pres Urges Justice Min To Send Files On Ministers To Prosecutors Office

17:52, 21 Ian. 2008
Romania’s president Traian Basescu on Monday urged interim justice minister Teodor Melescanu to send the notices on the start of criminal investigation against eight high-ranking officials to the Prosecutors’ Office or he might be accused of abuse of office.

Russia Patriarch Criticizes Romanian Church Over Metropolitan Of Bessarabia

17:14, 21 Ian. 2008
Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow on Monday criticized the decisions of the Romanian Orthodox Church regarding the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia, saying the Romanian church “interfered with an autocephalous orthodox church” and that its actions were “anti-canonical,” the Moldovan presidency said in a statement.

Romanian Social Democrats Urge Authorities To Ponder Romania’s Energy Situation

16:33, 21 Ian. 2008
Romania’s leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) urged the country’s defense council and government to seriously consider Romania’s energy situation, as the country’s is being cut out of main energy transport routes, spokesman Cristian Diaconescu told a news conference Monday.

Romanian Car Indus EUR7.2B In ‘07 Vs EUR5.6 On Yr-Dacia Oficial

15:11, 21 Ian. 2008
Romania’s car industry reached EUR7.2 billion in 2007, up against EUR5.6 billion in 2006, an official of Automobile Dacia SA, the local unit of French carmaker Renault, said Monday.

Romanian Leu Falls To 3-Yr Low Vs Euro

15:11, 21 Ian. 2008
The Romanian leu fell to a three-year low against the euro Monday, amid average volumes, echoing regional depreciating trends and worsening investor sentiment about Romania’s weak economic fundamentals, dealers said.

Romania’s Rompetrol Hikes Gas, Keeps Diesel Oil Prices

12:00, 21 Ian. 2008
Romania’s second-largest oil company, Rompetrol Group NV hikes during January 22 and 27 the gasoline pump prices by 0.01 lei/liter (EUR1-RON 3.6972), and maintains the diesel oil prices, the company said in a statement Monday.

Romanian Pres Says Interim Justice Min Is No Good Either

10:58, 21 Ian. 2008
Romanian president Traian Basescu warned interim justice minister Teodor Melescanu that, through his attitude in the matter of the eight former and current ministers targeted by criminal investigations, he is nearing abuse of office.

Romanian Floreasca Club Put Up For Sale At EUR38.7M

10:44, 21 Ian. 2008
Romanian Floreasca Club will be put up for sale end-January by State Protocol Patrimony, or RA-APPS, at a starting price of EUR38.7 million.

Ford Asks For Higher Thermal Power Supply To Romanian Auto Plant Craiova

22:02, 20 Ian. 2008
US giant Ford Motor Co. asked thermal power plant Craiova to increase its thermal power supply to Romania’s auto assembly plant Automobile Craiova, which Ford took over last year.

Romania Cannot Eliminate Its Car Tax -Official

17:33, 20 Ian. 2008
Bogdan Olteanu, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, said Romania cannot accept the European Commission’s request to eliminate its car tax, since Romania and the Commission do not share the same interests in this respect.

Blast At Bucharest’s „Lia Manoliu” Sports Complex, No Casualties

15:15, 20 Ian. 2008
The powerful blast on Sunday morning at an athletics gym within the "Lia Manoliu" national sports complex was probably caused by malfunctions at the gas system, but there were no casualties, according to Catalin Eftene, spokesperson of Bucharest’s Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.

Woman And Child Fall To Death In Bucharest

16:50, 19 Ian. 2008
A woman and her approximately one year old baby died after jumping from the fifth story of a building in the center of Romanian capital Bucharest, Bucharest Police spokesman Christian Ciocan told MEDIAFAX.

Romanian Midfielder Terminates Contract With Rapid Bucharest

14:28, 19 Ian. 2008
Romanian football club Rapid Bucharest midfielder Marius Maldarasanu, terminated, Saturday, his contract with the club. Both parties convened on the termination, Rapid Bucharest general director Constantin Zotta told MEDIAFAX.

Romania’s EU Accession Negotiator Snaps At Germans On Nokia Issue

13:32, 19 Ian. 2008
Vasile Puscas, former negotiator for Romania’s accession to the EU, said that Christian democrat leaders in German county North Rhine-Westphalia are smearing the skills of Romanian workers and Romanian market conditions, if the Bochum Nokia factory relocates to Romania.

Commercial Breeding Of Pigs Banned In Romanian Cities

21:03, 18 Ian. 2008
Swine breeding in non-professional system, namely for household use, is allowed exclusively in the rural environment, and prohibited in cities, as well as on meadows and in forests, according to a draft government decision approving the strategy for the eradication of the swine pest in 2008.