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Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday said on public radio RRA the Government should hurry and lay off many public servants working for the state apparatus, suggesting that 20% of them are useless. Basescu said that the state apparatus ha ...

The Romanian auto market declined about 58% in the first half of the year, stronger than the decline indicated by statistics which counted sales outside the country as sales on the local market, said Thursday Brent Valmar, head of the countrys Ass ...

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday on public radio that he is considering not running for a second term this year, adding he has not decided yet. He added it is not important whether he runs for president again or not, but whether th ...

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday said on public radio RRA that the meeting of education minister Ecaterina Andronescu and the unionists in the sector eyes transforming a good set of laws, beneficial to the education, into a convenient ...

The minimum wage in Romania of EUR153 was second‑lowest in the European Union in January, after Bulgaria, with a minimum wage of EUR123, according to a report of Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Commission. Romania is part o ...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Friday signed the decision appointing former athlete Doina Melinte to take over the state secretary seat within the Ministry of Youth and Sports after the resignation of ex‑gymnastics coach Octavian Bellu. ...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc meets Friday with the ministers of development, finance, SMEs and a representative of the Ministry of Environment to discuss ways to reduce the number of government agencies. The prime minister said Wednesday that ...

Romania and the United States of America must build, once the new Administration is installed in Washington, a new joint project portfolio, stated President Traian Basescu on the public radio station. According to the head of state, the two count ...

Romania will not be able to meet the parameters established for the second half of this year with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), because of the economic crisis, Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday told a public radio station. &# ...

Romania's national dailies of Friday give main coverage to the prospects for a 20‑percent cut in public employment advocated by President Traian Basescu as a solution to diminish Government spending amidst the ongoing economic crisis; th ...

The Republic of Moldovas acting president Vladimir Voronin said Wednesday Moldova will lift visas for Romanians when the EU lifts visas for Moldovans, Moldovan paper Jurnal de Chisinau reported in its online edition. Asked by reporters when Moldo ...

Romanian car parts maker Mefin Sinaia (MEF.RO) extended the furlough period by 30 days, until August 31, for 89 employees, the company announced Wednesday. The rest of the companys 354 employees will have a normal working schedule. Around 150 em ...

Two Israeli doctors who were applied preventive arrest in the investigation of fertility clinic Sabyc after attempting to leave Romania on Tuesday had been working without license, sanitary authorization and without the approval of the Doctors Col ...

The number of Romanians with retail loans overdue by more than 30 days rose by 200,000, or 47.7% on the year in May, at around 600,000 people, while overdue loans exceeding 90 days represent 82.4% of the total late payments, of 1.73 billion lei (E ...

The wages for some managers or drivers within the government agencies, which currently reach sums between 4,100 lei (EUR1=RON4.2138) and RON17,600, will be brought to a reasonable level, Prime Minister Emil Boc said, adding the agencies revenues w ...

Romanias Prime Minister Emil Boc on Wednesday said the draft unitary pay law for the public sector will be completed until August 14, arguing he personally thinks the government ought to assume responsibility for the law in Parliament. "The ...

Unionists in Romanias prison system said they decided to put off the warning strike planned for Thursday, July 30, in the wake of talks on amending the collective labor agreement, revising the budget and drawing up the necessary normative acts in ...

Romania's national dailies of Thursday give main coverage to the latest issues facing the ruling coalition; the assessment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of its stand‑by arrangement with Romania; the effects of the ongoing econ ...

The average monthly wage of employees with the Romanian Civil Aviation Authority could decrease 22.7% this year compared to 2008, to 6.364 lei (EUR1=RON4.2051) from RON8,234, according to the institutions draft budget. The wage fund of the Civil ...

Romanias gas producer Romgaz Medias, oil company Petrom (SNP.RO) and several foreign companies are interested to lease oil blocks totaling 30,000 square kilometers in the Black Sea zone in a bid that Romania's Mineral Resources Agency ANRM wil ...