Social/Politics
Interior Ministry To Lay Off 5,500 Employees In October
Romanian Interior Minister Traian Igas said Friday that 5,500 ministry employees will be laid off in October, but the reorganization process will not end.
New Free Drug List To Save Healthcare Budget RON150M Per Year
Romania's Health Ministry has changed the formula used to compute the reimbursement prices for drugs provided free through the national healthcare programs, encouraging consumption of generi...
Boc: Around 370,000 Romanian Firms To Send Income Tax Statement Quarterly
Around 370,000 Romanian companies with a turnover of up to EUR100,000 and no more than two employees will send their income tax statement every quarter, instead of every month, said Prime Mi...
Rural Development Payments Agency Disbursed Over EUR3B Since 2007
Romania's Agency for Rural Development and Fishing Payments (APDRP) disbursed, by August 24, EUR2.52 billion of the funds allotted through the National Rural Development Program 2007-2013, p...
Romanian Parliament Elections Should Use Single-Winner System - NGO
The Institute for Public Policy says Romania's parliamentary elections should use a first-past-the-post single-winner system, pointing that a number of MPs in the current legislature won sea...
Romania Doubles No Of Scholarships For Moldovan Students
The Romanian Government decided to double the number of scholarships for Moldovan students in the 2011-2012 academic year to 5,000, the Education Ministry said in a press release Thursday.
Government Bans Civil Servants From Working For EU-Funded Projects In Private Sector
Civil servants currently working in institutions that help manage European funds will no longer be allowed to move to the private sector to work for EU-funded projects, according to an emerg...
SME Owners Ask Government To Cancel Penalties For Overdue Budget Debts
Romanian SME owners have asked the Government to annul the penalties for overdue payment of debts to the state budget, incurred between 2009 and 2010 by companies that had no such problems b...
Boc Asks To Be Kept Up To Date On Projects In Partnership With China
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has asked the ministries to each appoint "a liaison," who is to report regularly on the progress of the five public-private partnership projects pitched to i...