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Video: Lui Mr. Bean nu-i place de Massa

Ușor, ușor, vedetele au inceput sa-și faca simțita prezența in cadrul competiților de Formula 1. Spre deosebire de DSLR-urile paparazzilor, stelele cinematografiei sunt destul de rar luate in prim-plan camerele de...

Buşeală à la Mr. Bean

Rowan Atkinson demonstreza ca Mr. Bean nu este doar personajul care i-a adus celebritatea, ci si o bucatica rupta din el. Asemenea carismaticului Bean, actorul britanic in varsta de 56 de ani a reusit sa-si distruga...

How To Bring In Or Opt Out Of The Taxation System

Replacing the current 16% flat tax with a proportional taxation system was long debated on, and the Social Democrat Party, or PSD, said it would implement it once it took office. The founder of the Marshall Turism tour...

KazMunai Wants A Deal With Govt On Old Debt

The Kazakh group KazMunaiGaz (KMG) plans to strike a deal with the Romanian state by the end of the year, on the issue of the debt Rompetrol Group owes state coffers, the KMG general director Kairgeldi Kabildin told...

Electricity Provider Electrica Refuses To Pay Dues To State Coffers

Electricity provider Electrica said it would not sent 400 million lei şroughly 100 million Euroţ to state coffers, as the Government ordered it in its latest budget rewrite. The news was brought up in a letter...

Foreign Investors Suggest The Government An Action Plan To Boost The Economy

The Foreign Investors Council, or FIC, in Romania put forth 12 steps it deems necessary for the economy to pick up speed once again. At a budgetary cost estimated at 860 million Euro per year, or 0.7% of the GDP, the...

Founder Of Conservatives Wants PM Boc Taken To Court For Poor Performance In Office

Senator Dan Voiculescu deems appropriate filing criminal charges against PM Emil Boc for his mismanagement of the economy and the ensuing social crisis. Article 249 in the Penal Code Voiculescu referred to as applicable...

Central Bank Reserves Up 1Bn Euro In September

Central Bank reserves went up 1.02 billion Euro in September, to reach 32.58 billion Euro. The move up comes after four months of constant decline, and is due to new entries in state coffers: the 884 million Euro sixth...

Kosovo Is The New Eldorado For Both Europeans And Americans

Mircea Opris, Anca Aldea, dispatching from PristinaThe International Court of Justice in the Hague, or ICJ, decision that the Declaration of independence adopted by Kosovo was legal is bound to add more fuel to a fire...

Fiscal Authorities Filed Law Suits Against 6,740 Companies For 1.24B Euro Unpaid Dues

Romanian fiscal authorities, or ANAF, filed in the first eight months 6,740 law suits against companies that did not pay an aggregate 5.3 billion lei (about 1.24 billion Euro). A fifth of the companies sued are in fact...

Arcada Co. Rehabilitates Cernavoda Bridge For 9.5M Euro

The National Company for Highways and National Roads in Romania hired Arcada Company SA in Galati to restore the Cernavoda Bridge over the Danube River. The contract is worth 9.48 million Euro before taxation, according...

Commercial Banks In Romania Not Letting Go Of Their Bad Practices

Monday is the last day Romanians may reach the bank clerks to file their disagreement with the reading commercial banks gave to a new law which makes applicable EU legislation regarding the calculus of interest rates and...

No Roads – No Investors

Romania stands to loose a lot due to the poor condition of its roads and the few highways: only 321 kilometers, in all."Transportation is not just important, it is vital for Romania's economic development and its road ou...

The Hospitality Industry Had The Worst Season In Ten Years

The hospitality industry reports the worst summer season earnings in the last decade, after sudden weather changes, drop in income, hike in VAT and lack of advertisement for domestic tourism took their toll."It was the...

Commercial Banks In Romania Stand To Loose 900M Euro If Complying With EU Legislation

The Romanian Association of Commercial Banks in Romania, or ARB, wants to hire a law firm to get a legal opinion on the issue of having the EU Directive 48/CE/2008 adopted in the Romanian law.Bringing banking business...

Erste Group CEO: Clients Would Like Bankers Hang

The loss of credibility with their clients, which bankers experience internationally, came to new heights in recent months and weeks, as one bank leader put it: "For a while now, people wanted bankers publicly humiliated...

German Company Operating In Romania Kites 30M Euro From The SAPARD Funds

The anti-fraud office in Brussels, or OLAF, and its Romanian counterpart, DIICOT, investigate an alleged 30 million Euro fraud from the EU's agricultural SAPARD funds, committed by the German group Aton GmbH, in Fulda,...

Commercial Banks Kill The Hens Laying Small Eggs, Central Bank Says

About half a million Romanians have three credits on their name, on average two bank credits and one credit with a financial institution not subjected to the Central Bank supervision. The aggregate size of these credits...

Less Credits, Less Economic Results, Later Economic Rebound; Central Bank Says

Romania's Central Bank is worried the dropping number of companies filing for bank credits is a sign of delayed economic rebound. About 14% of active companies filed for credits in June 2010, compared with 16% in March...