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Ediţie Maybach cu parfum

La Salonul Auto de la Frankfurt a fost prezentata o editie speciala de Maybach, botezata Edition 125!. Ce au schimbat la masina asta fata de un model obisnuit? In primul rand, ar putea fi vorba despre noua combinatie de...

EC Says Stamp Tax Should Be Null, While Court Fines Higher, For Botched Public Procurement Bids

The European Commission was less than pleased with alterations in March that Romanian authorities made to the laws regulating the public procurement process, which instituted a mandatory stamp tax of 2% of the contract...

The international economic context

The recession that includes the largest EU economies severely hit our economy; over 2 thirds of our commercial exchanges are with the EU and most of the Romanians working abroad use the single work market. In order fo...

Ionel Blănculescu: The crisis will hit hard the real economy

After the crisis of the houses of savings in '89 in the U.S., a structure for the recovery of claims was created. The state has allocated 400 billion dollars at that time. After the bankruptcy of Credit Lyonese, the...

Snakes, oil, Romanians and Ukrainians

This is not a film title. And, actually, it is more about natural gas, which could be found in an area of nearly 12,000 square kilometers in the north-west of the Black Sea. And that would allow Romania to...

Adrian Nastase Two By Two Swimming Pool

The many-page file built by the National Anti-Corruption Department, against Social Democrat Party National Council President Adrian Nastase stirred a big public debate when it was made available to the public via the...

Basescu erased all his debts

When he was the Minister of Transport, President Traian Basescu promoted an emergency decree that erased a debt of 200,000 USD plus interest from the Agricultural Bank, a loan which he obtained when he was a...

France à la Sarkozy

Eight months into his presidency, is Nicolas Sarkozy delivering the “rupture” from 30 years of French immobility that he promised? Dubbed the “hyper-president” by bewildered media, he has...

France à la Sarkozy

Eight months into his presidency, is Nicolas Sarkozy delivering the “rupture” from 30 years of French immobility that he promised? By Charles Wyplosz Eight months into his presidency, is Nicolas...

From little Paris to great ambitions

People used to call Bucharest “little Paris”. It was saucy, its inhabitants seemed more civilized and more educated than they are today, and it didn’t look as kitschy as it does...

4th of July

"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. "Â -words written on the Liberty BellBy the middle of the 1700s, the 13 colonies that made up part of England's empire in the New World we...

Why is terrorism still spreading?

There are two major mistakes which a society can commit in the face of the terrorist threat. The first one is to try to justify it. The second is to underestimate it. Terrorists are ruthless and insane but they are not s...

Romanians at Cambridge

They thought it was eccentric to apply for Cambridge and, now, one can see them walking naturally on the streets of the British village to the research labs. Forty Romanian young men that really ran up against science...

Poverty and Imposture Block the Development of the Market

BUSINESS - July 14 2004 The business consulting market is not so coherent and big as the official increasing rhythm of the Romanian economy would suggest. A great gap is to appear between the segment of the big...

The Foreigners Hardly Find Vacations in Romania

TOURISM The foreign tourists, who wish to travel to Romania, confront with difficulties when it comes to all included trips to Romania. On the most popular French or German websites the vacation offers having...

The SDP Decay, Caused by the Absence of a Good-for-President Member

INTERVIEW - August 3 2004 A poll by IMAS (the Institute for Measurement, Analysis and Statistics) puts the NLP (the National Liberal Party) - DP (the Democratic Party) Alliance on the first place in the...

The Parties Fight for the Immigrantsâ€™ Votes

POLITICS August 12 2004 Though they left the country, the Romanians from abroad still have the right to vote, which makes them attractive for the parties. In this electoral season, the politicians want to regain...

Dan Voiculescu Showed Proof He Has Never Been a Member of the Communist Security

POLITICS - September 3rd 2004 Yesterday, the HPR (the Humanist Party of Romania) president, Dan Voiculescu, addressed a public letter to the Romanians that we will show integrally. "Dear Romanians, Full stop and...

Jurnalul National, a New Record Increase of the Rating

OBSERVER - October 16th 2004 The history of the National Rating Study (NRS) registered in its most recent round of measurements a new record. The previous one was also from Jurnalul National, which...

Prime Minister Shortened Our Way to the EU - For France We Are in the EU

POLITICS - October 19th 2004 For Romania, 2007 is almost an obsession. It is the year in which the integration in the EU is compulsory. As far as Franceâ€™s Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is...