Romania To Deliver Electricity To Turkey Through Underground Cable
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a joint news conference Thursday and detailed the matters discussed during their meeting.
Ponta said Romania signed six agreements with Turkey, including one concerning the delivery of electricity from Romania to Turkey through an underground system.
Ponta also said Romania will unconditionally support Turkey’s accession to the European Union. (Adevarul)
ANRE Head: Electricity Price Decline Helped Romania Apply Deregulation Scheme
Electricity price reduction following a decrease in consumption helped Romania apply its price deregulation scheme, Niculae Havrilet, head of the country’s energy market regulator ANRE, said Thursday.
Romania has pledged in negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to deregulate gas and electricity prices and align them to European levels by 2018. (Adevarul)
Romania May Collect EUR165M/Year In Social Security Contributions On Home Rental Revenues
Romania would collect about EUR165 million annually in social security contributions applied for home rental revenues if all contracts were registered at tax authority ANAF, according to real estate brokers.
Some 80,000 apartments are rented in Bucharest alone, said Alina Petrescu, marketing manager Imobiliare.NET.
According to a Imobiliare.NET survey, 10% of the 800,000 homes in Bucharest are rented. (Gandul)
Romanian Doctors Continue Protests For Second Straight Day
Employees in the Romanian healthcare system protested Thursday in Bucharest for the second straight day, calling for higher wages.
Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu told protesters the government can’t double doctors’ wages and promised them a 2% to 20% wage increase.
Doctors also call on authorities to allot at least 6% of the gross domestic product to the healthcare sector.
They will continue to picket the Health and Finance ministries until September 27 and will go on strike in November if their demands are rejected. (Curentul)