Romania Inflation Rate Hits Six-Year High Of 5% In March 2018
Romanian consumer prices accelerated further in March 2018, to an annual rate of 5%, from an annual rate of 4.7% in February, which is the highest level in six years, accordng to data from the country’s statistics board INS.
Compared with February, consumer prices grew 0.3% in March, the data showed.
Romanians paid 0.48% more for food in March 2018 compared with February, non-food items cost 0.15% more, and services cost 0.3% more.
Compared with March 2017, food prices grew 4%, non-food prices grew 6.57%, and service prices grew 2.9%. “Inflația se reaprinde” (jurnalul.ro)
Minister: Romanians Living Abroad Obliged To Justify Amounts Of Over EUR1,000 Sent To Romania
Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici said the bill obliging Romanians living abroad to submit papers justifying the amounts of over EUR1,000 sent to Romania is part of transposing a European provision, but Romania should not hurry to transpose it.
Asked whether the state levies taxes on the money sent to Romania, the finance minister said: “There are fiscal provisions which target the declaration of income obtained abroad. You know very well that the former tax forms comprised these provisions. (…). As regards the things imposed at European level, Romanians always had the unjustified habit of being the first in Europe when it comes to transposing a normative act and, for many times, it did more harm than good.” (romanialibera.ro)
CSM Bucuresti Reaches Final Four Of EHF Champions League
Women’s Handball Team CSM București has qualified in the Final Four of the EHF Champions League, although it was defeated by French champion, Metz, with a score of 27 to 20, in Sunday’s second leg of its quarter-final tie.
While consistently down by eight or nine goals in the second half, the Romanians managed to control the deficit and booked their ticket to the Women’s EHF FINAL4 for the third time in a row.
CSM Bucuresti won the Champions League trophy in 2016, while last year it ended the competition on the third place.
The other three teams who have qualified for the 2018 Final Four are Gyori Audi ETO KC (Hungary), Vardar Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and Rostov-Don (Russia). (cotidianul.ro)
Weather Gets Colder Across Romania
Meteorologists said the weather will get colder across Romania starting April 15, but it will start to get warmer towards the end of the week.
In the region of Banat, temperatures will fall to a level close to the multiannual average values, with maximum temperatures reaching nearly 18 degrees and minimum temperatures ranging from 6 to 8 degrees.
In the region of Crisana, the weather will get colder, with the regional average of maximum temperatures ranging from 17 to 19 degrees.
In the region of Transylvania, temperatures are expected to fall gradually, thus, the average of maximum temperatures will reach 15 degrees Celsius, around April 19, but it will rise slightly to 17-18 degrees.
In the region of Dobrogea, minimum temperatures, which maintained around 8 degrees until April 14, will fall towards 6 degrees on April 16, but will return to the average value of 8 degrees.
In the region of Muntenia, average temperatures will reach approximately 16 degrees as of April 16, followed by a slight increase, towards average values of 19-20 degrees. After April 16, minimum temperatures during the night, will fall to 5-6 degrees.
“ULTIMA ORĂ de la meteorologi: VREMEA se schimbă drastic” (puterea.ro)