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People contracting loans via the First Home program will pay either a 5% downpayment for a house that costs maximum EUR60,000, or EUR3,000 plus the difference of the purchase price, according to the methodological norms enforcing the program, whic ...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Sunday that 102 parafiscal taxes and fees, of a total 491, were canceled, grouped or cut through emergency decrees, government decisions or orders of ministers, adding another 84 taxes will be canceled in its ...

Romania confirmed Sunday another two infections with the AH1N1 flu virus, taking the number of cases in the country to sixteen. The two patients are the parents of a 37‑year old man who arrived on June 10 from Canada, the Romanian Health Mi ...

Romania President Traian Basescu said Sunday he plans to discuss the economic crisis issue, in the upcoming period, not only with ministers, but also with political leaders, considering that economic solutions must be accepted in a general debate ...

The Government should consider another budgetary rectification, a negative one, in August or September, given the fact that Romania enters recession and the budgetary revenues drop, president Traian Basescu said on Sunday, at the Government meetin ...

Romanian tennis player Raluca Olaru won the $100,000 tournament in Marseille, after defeating in the final Slovenian Masa Zec‑Peskiric in three sets 6‑7 (4), 7‑5, 6‑4. Olaru, seeded no 6 won after 3h21min. In the quarterf ...

Romania's national dailies of Monday give wide coverage to the decisions and statements of the June 14 Government meeting, where also attending was President Traian Basescu; the social consequences of economic recession hitting Romania; attemp ...

The Romanian Transports Ministry will take over two plots of land in Tunari commune, Ilfov County, with a total area of over 2,530 sqm, from the Academy for Agricultural and Silvic Sciences, in order to expand Bucharest's northern beltway to f ...

Members of Romania's National Committee for Emergencies who fail to attend meetings will be immediately fired and replaced, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday, adding he won’t accept any excuses and acts of indiscipline. Boc a ...

Romanian Senate chairman Mircea Geoana said Friday in the in the Parliament assembly on Black Sea Economic Cooperation that the Black Sea area will continue to be of crucial strategic importance and that its development is of vital interest to Rom ...

Romania's integrated strategy to fight the swine flu pandemic will be ready for approval in the government meeting on June 17, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The ministry headquarters hosted a meeting of the National Committee for Emergen ...

Romanian Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana said Friday that the ordinance adopted by the Government on the ability to amend or repeal normative acts before they enter force “casts a shadow” on the assumption of responsibility for the legal ...

A new case of infection with the AH1N1 virus was confirmed Friday by the Romanian Cantacuzino Institute, namely one person who arrived on June 10 from Canada. Thus, the number of people infected with the AH1N1 virus in Romania reaches 12, of whic ...

Leadership of the Chamber of Deputies will meet, on Monday, at the Parliament Palace, with officials from the International Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly forthe Parliamentary Assembly for Black Sea economic cooperation (APCEMN (APCEMN) ...

The Parliamentary Assembly for Black Sea economic cooperation (APCEMN) has the goal to create new bridges to prosperity between the member states and to eliminate some barriers dividing them, stated on Friday Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Rob ...

Romanian Health Minister Ion Bazac unveiled on Friday the National Plan laying down the moves to be made in the case of a flu pandemic, which includes such measures as protection equipment - disposable masks - to be worn by the border police, heal ...

The inflation rate year-on-year is set within the Technic Memorandum of Understanding, which is an addition to the Stand-By Agreement between Romania and the IMF, made public on Friday on the Finance Ministry's website. The document stipulate ...

The Romanian Tourism Ministry plans to ban the playing of loud music or TV outdoors in tourist resorts between the hours of 1 and 8 a.m. and oblige hotels to stay open for the entire length of the holiday season, between May 1 and September 30. T ...

Romanian Economy Minister Adriean Videanu presented Wednesday the structure of the two national power companies that will be set up in 2009, which will have similar market shares, according to the energy sector reorganization plan drawn up by the ...

Romanian Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea on Wednesday assured farmers the authorities will find a solution to compensate their dues to the state with the subsidies farmers benefit from through the paying agency in agriculture. One of the problems ...