Bucharest North and South ring road - more than 2 bln euros (09-03-2010)

Bucharest North and South ring road works, at motorway level, are to cost more than two billion euros, three times as much as the initial estimations Full story

KPMG Survey: Poor infrastructure funding could deepen recession (09-03-2010)

Public sector executives around the world agree with private infrastructure providers and business leaders that government effectiveness and financing are top challenges to delivering infrastructure projects, Full story


Bucharest Tourism, business of 23 mln euros (09-03-2010)

Bucharest Tourism (BUTU), company holding the five-star hotel Radisson Blu, on Calea Victoriei, in Bucharest and Centreville Apart Hotel complex, posted last year a turnover of Full story

Romania to carry out new agricultural census starting December 2010 (09-03-2010)

Romania will carry out a new general agricultural census (RGA), from December 2010 to January 2011, in order to update the data regarding the existing land Full story


Subsidies up to 410 euro/ha for land owners in hill and mountain areas (09-03-2010)

Land owners in hill and mountain areas will benefit from cumulated subsidies of 410 euro/ha/year in 2010 from European funds, the chairman of Suceava County Council Full story

Commission gives green light to genetically-modified potato (09-03-2010)

In a controversial move, the European Commission last Tuesday (2 March) gave the green light for the first genetically-modified potato to be cultivated in the European Full story

Retail turnover drops by 31 pct (09-03-2010)

Retail turnover drops by 31 pct Retail turnover volume, other than vehicle and motorcycle sales, dropped as gross series by 31.1 percent in Jan. 2010 compared Full story

Eurostat: Romania, the third retail trade decline in EU (09-03-2010)

Romania had in January the third drop of retail trade in EU, when sales dropped by 10.3% compared to the same period of 2009, while on Full story

Multinationals swap Bucharest CBD with secondary locations (09-03-2010)

Office space demand across secondary markets outside Bucharest is expected to grow gradually, led by multinational companies that are already moving their staff to high-quality low-rent Full story

Health minister targets hospital decentralization by July 1 (09-03-2010)

Health Minister Attila Cseke told a press conference the decentralization through the transfer of the public medical units to the local administration is now one of Full story

The first private airport of Romania in Adunatii Copaceni (02-03-2010)

Nelu Iordache, the owner of Blue Air, Romstrade and La Mosie is ready to start his biggest investment, the construction of the first private low Full story

PM Boc at Danube Summit: We must be good at drafting strategies and at (02-03-2010)

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc told the participants in the Conference on the Danube Strategy here on last Thursday that the involved players must be 'good Full story

Blue Air to open flights to Bangkok and Havana this May (02-03-2010)

Blue Air low-cost air carrier will open this May weekly flights to Bangkok (Thailand) and Havana (Cuba), its first destinations outside Europe, Blue Air General Manager Full story

Straco gets EUR 8 ml in extra funding for Bucharest South Belt Highway (02-03-2010)

Straco Group, a company running on Romanian capital, received an extra eight million euros for works on a section of the Bucharest South Belt Highway, informs Full story

Fiat enters 'Car scrapping plan' with discounts of up to 5,800 euros (02-03-2010)

Fiat enters '2010 Car scrapping plan' and offers reductions of up to 5,800 euros, with VAT, in addition to the three bonuses in the value of Full story

Dacia, an increased market share in Germany, in 2010 (02-03-2010)

Even though, in general, the auto market in Germany will follow a downward trend this year, as well, Renault and Dacia will further increase their market Full story

Romania is country of malls (02-03-2010)

Over the last three years Romania has been the most important target of investments in the region for the real estate developers, who assaulted the market Full story

Romanians' at-home consumption of beer and coffee increases (02-03-2010)

One of the economic crisis effects upon the consumer goods of daily use is that the at-home consumption increased, in 2009, for some of the products, Full story

German groups control 60 pct of Romania's retail trade (02-03-2010)

The German Lidl & Schwarz group outran the French Carrefour retailer in the ranking of the top biggest retailers on the local market once it took Full story

Minister of Agriculture: A farmer can get 400 euros/hectare in 2010 (02-03-2010)

An farmer breeding animals in Romania can theoretically get, in 2010, the sum of 400 euros/hectare, which is a historic level, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Full story