Business Insider Nordic: Bucharest Has Worst Traffic In Europe

The Business Insider Nordic website has released a ranking of European cities with the worst traffic and Bucharest places first, with a score of 50%, which translates into a massive increase of 7% compared with the year before.

Some cities have taken steps to cut congestion. Among those is London, which puts a fee on most vehicles driving in a designated congestion charge zone. But others have yet to find a real solution.

  TomTom, a navigation and mapping company, has ranked the European cities it says have the worst traffic. The company collected data over nine years and gave each city a congestion score out of 100. The annual score, most recently updated with 2016 data, shows how much extra travel time it takes to get around a particular city. (romanialibera.ro)   Google Teams Up With Wal-Mart To Sell Online Products   Wal-Mart will soon offer customers the ability to order hundreds of thousands of its products by voice with the help of Google.   The partnership is another critical step as Wal-Mart looks to advance its e-commerce operations, staying competitive with Amazon and its powerful voice-enabled network Alexa.  

Wal-Mart also will be offering the largest number of items through the Express platform.

Beginning in September, Wal-Mart shoppers can link their Wal-Mart accounts to Google Express and quickly order — either through voice on Google Home or by shopping on Google Express. By linking a shopper’s past Wal-Mart purchase history, Google will be able to more quickly learn the customer’s shopping patterns and recommend suitable products. (romanialibera.ro)

French President Macron To Meet President Iohannis, PM Tudose

French President Emmanuel Macron is paying a visit to Romania today to meet his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis and Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, and also to tour the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum.

Macron and Iohannis will have a one-on-one meeting to hold official talks at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, and afterwards they will hold a joint news conference.

According to the Romanian Presidential Administration, talks will focus on developing and deepening the bilateral strategic partnership relationship, as well as European, international and security affairs.

The two presidents will tour together the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum in Bucharest and, at the end of the day, Iohannis will organise a reception in honour of his French counterpart. (cotidianul.ro)

Iohannis Blasts Justice Minister’s Proposed Amendments To Justice Laws President Klaus Iohannis believes the propositions to amend the Justice laws presented by minister Tudorel Toader are an attack on the rule of law, the independence of Justice and the anti-corruption fight.

The head of state says Romania is in a favourable moment internationally speaking, mainly within the European community, a context in which “returning to the old habits of putting pressure upon Justice” would be disadvantageous to the country.

“This would be in total contradiction with the commitments Romania has taken when accessing the European Union and would but unlimitedly maintain the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism,” the head of state says.

In his opinion, a part of the measures announced (by minister Toader, ed. n.) are attempting to induce a false problem and accredit the idea that Romania’s President is the political factor that has to be eliminated from the appointment procedure to the leading positions within the judicial system. (puterea.ro)

Poland, Bulgaria and Romania Have Lowest Meat Prices In EU Denmark had the highest prices for meat among European Union (EU) members states in 2016, higher by nearly 40% than the EU average, data released on Wednesday by Eurostat. The lowest prices were registered in Poland, lower by 47% compared to the EU average, followed by Bulgaria, lower by 44%, and Romania, 41.1% below the EU average.

Other member states with significantly higher prices for meat compared to the European average are Austria, 37% higher than the EU average, Sweden, 34.5% higher than the EU average, and France, 31.3% higher than the EU average.

Considering all countries in Europe, and not just the EU member states, the highest prices for meat are found in Switzerland, 157% higher than the EU average, while the lowest prices are in Poland, which are even lower than prices for meat recorded in Albania or Macedonia. (puterea.ro)

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