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The European Commission sent Romania a letter of formal notice regarding the registration tax for cars, the first stage in the procedure for violations of community law, demanding the amendment of relevant legislation and adding the current system ...

Romanian carmaker Dacia ranked 13 in a survey regarding the satisfaction of German clients, overtaking Frances Renault and Citroen, U.S. Ford and Germanys Opel. The survey, conducted online by JD Power, polled 16,200 owners who have had the same ...

The Romanian government decided to suspend this year a program that granted EUR200 aid to help students in low income families buy computers, citing the need to revise selection criteria for beneficiaries and run detailed check‑ups on applic ...

A new amendment to Romanian car tax law will trigger total confusion in the auto industry, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Thursday. APIA said the European Commissions decision to request Romania to change it ...

Romanias Prime Minister Emil Boc on Thursday said the draft unitary pay law discussed by the Government in a first stage does not stipulate lower wages in ratio with existing wages, adding the final act would be established following a financial e ...

The Romanian government will analyze and evaluate the macroeconomic trend at the end of the first half of the year, but does not consider hiking the value added tax, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday. We do not eye a VAT increase, Boc told a ...

Romanian authorities on Thursday confirmed three new infections with the new AH1N1 flu virus, bringing total confirmations to 22, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The three new patients are members of a family who flu in from the U.S. on ...

Romanias largest lender Banca Comerciala Romana estimates it would grant euro‑denominated loans worth of EUR450 million, at an interest rate equal to the Euribor rate plus 3.8 percentage points, with a loan granting fee of 0.017%, BCR offici ...

The lowest interest rate for RON‑denominated loans granted through the First House program is at ROBOR rate plus 1.9 percentage points and was offered by Romanian state‑owned lender CEC Bank, the head of the Guarantee Fund for small ...

Romanian athletes Viviana Chirila and Marius Ilas, both with the CS Gym Oradea, ranked 2rd in the World Cup of Karate Kyokushin held in Sankt Petersburg, Russia. After an exhausting match in the semifinals against Japanese Mimiko Fukuda, Chirila ...

The European Commission on Thursday initiated the infringement proceedings against Romania on several issues related to the domestic gas and electricity market and the gas and electricity transport networks. Alongside Romania, another 24 member st ...

Romanian tennis player Victor Hanescu, seeded 31st, qualified in round three of the international grass tennis tournament in Wimbledon, the third of Grand Slam of the year, following the victory got on Thursday, in three sets, 6‑2, 6‑3 ...

The Romanian dailies on Friday give main coverage to the uncertainty surrounding the future law on a single pay in the public sector, the way the money collected from the auto tax is used, the offers made by the banks for the First House programme ...

Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday that, in 2008, half of Romanias population received social aid, which in his opinion is wasteful and is caused by populist political behavior. Basescu made the statement during a conference call ...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc asked the Finance Ministry on Wednesday to analyze the possibility to guarantee co‑financing for all operational programs, after ministers complained that banks did not send letters of guarantee in time. The ...

Romanian tennis player Sorana Carstea defeated Indian player Sania Mirza 6‑4, 6‑4, on Wednesday in a game lasting 85 minutes, as part of the second round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament. In the next tour, Carstea will face the ...

The Romanian Government decided to increase most gambling taxes and the minimum required share capital for the gambling license, Government sources told. Thus, for gambling characteristic for casinos, the tax for the organization license could be ...

Drug consumption is low among Romanian youths, but the country is part of the heroin transit route, according to 2009s World Drug Report published Wednesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report provides global infor ...

The Romanian Government decided to take legal action in a bid to cancel the contracts concluded, last year, between the Romanian Police and the company Ager Leasing, for the purchase of police cruisers, Government sources told. "The situatio ...

The quotients discussed Wednesday by the Government to establish the unitary salary grid in the public sector were some 40% lower compared to the levels previously analyzed, ranging between 5.4 and 2.3 minimum wages on economy, Ministry sources to ...