Social/Politics
Government Might Reduce Pre-Finance Cap For EU Projects To 15% From 30%
The Romanian Government considers reducing the state ceiling to pre-finance EU-funded projects from 30% to about 15% of the contract’s value, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX Friday.
Romania To Renegotiate Gas Volumes, Prices With Gazprom
Romania will launch negotiations with Russian company Gazprom, to increase the volume of gas transited locally to 10 billion cubic meters, from two billion, as well as to increase the quanti...
Udrea Plans To Expropriate Run-Down Seaside Hotels
Hotel owners on Romania’s Black Sea coast, who keep their units in poor condition or closed, must be forced to open them to tourists, or be expropriated starting this fall, Regional Developm...
Romania, Bulgaria Team Up Against Barriers On EU Labor Market
Romania and Bulgaria have asked Laszlo Andor, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, to help convince the members of the European Union to lift labor market rest...
MP: Bill On Wealth Confiscation Is No Threat To People Who Gained Property Legally
The amendments brought by the Romanian Government to the Criminal Code “pose no risk to people who obtained their wealth legally and committed no criminal offence,” MP Ioan Oltean, of the ru...
Feasibility Studies For Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport Reorganization To Cost Up To EUR450,000
The Bucharest National Airport Company (CNAB) seeks to draw up a feasibility study for a maximum EUR450,000 to reorganize the International Aurel Vlaicu Airport (Baneasa).
European Commissioner For Digital Agenda Visits Romania
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes will be in Romania Monday to meet with President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Emil Boc and Communications Minister Valerian Vreme.
New Ministry To Manage EU Fund Coordination, Audit Authorities - Sources
Romania's proposed Ministry of European Affairs will manage the Structural Instrument Coordination Authority (ACIS) and, probably, the Audit Authority attached to the Court of Accounts, but...
Boc Asks Ministers To Explain Missed EU Fund Absorption Targets - Sources
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Thursday reproached the ministers for failing to keep their promises to improve European fund absorption and asked to have a report within one week, peopl...