Social/Politics
Owner Offers $100,000 Reward To Recover Gold Jewelry Stolen From Car In Romania Tuesday
The owner of the jewelry store whose car was robbed of nearly 30 kilograms of gold jewels on a Romanian highway earlier this week is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to cat...
Development Ministry Requests RON980M Loan To Repay EU Project Beneficiaries
Romania's Regional Development Ministry has asked the Finance Ministry for a loan of up to 980 million lei (EUR228 million) to refund EU project beneficiaries while the European Commission p...
Romanian Team To Operate Persistent Ground Surveillance Systems In Afghanistan
A team from Romania's General Directorate for Defense Intelligence will be deployed in Afghanistan to operate the Persistent Ground Surveillance System (PGSS) under ISAF Regional Command Sou...
EU Warns Romanian Public-Private Partnership Law Still Breaches Community Norms
The European Commission has warned the Romanian Government that the public-private partnership law is still incompatible with EU norms and not sufficiently clear on certain procedures, such...
EC Accepts Spain’s Request To Restrict Labor Market Access To Romanian Workers Until End-2012
The European Commission on Thursday approved Spain's request to restrict its labor market to Romanian workers until December 31, 2012 due to serious disturbances on its labor market, the EC...
Pension Reform Widens Pension Fund Gap By EUR1B. What Did The Reform Mean, Then?
The much-talked about pension reform is adding EUR1 billion to the pension fund gap. While last year, during discussions about the new pension law, officials maintained reform would mean add...
Romania To Increase Budget Earnings Through New Building, Land, Vehicle Tax System
Romania's Government will change the building, land and vehicle tax system, introducing a new calculation method that will allow earnings from this source to increase by more than 1 billion...
Romania Halts Certain Pension Raises Until 2014, Over High Additional Expenses
Romania's Government will block certain pension raises, which would have taken effect next year, until 2014, arguing that the lack of a "sustainable framework" for the pension law's applicat...
Romania To Wait Until 2014 To Finance Education System By 6% Of GDP
Romania's Government will extend the deadline by which it must provide at least 6% of the GDP to the education system by two years, until 2014, arguing that it would entail an additional bud...