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Bucharest - 13% increase in residential building permits
In the first nine months of last year, local authorities issued a total of 44.948 residential building permits with a total surface of 8.302.400 sqm. According to the National Statistics Institute, the reported data show an increase of 3.5% in the number of issued building permits and an increase of 23.8% in total usable surface, compared to the corresponding period of 2005.…
Democrat Ministers left Daewoo privatisation commission
Radu Berceanu, Minister of Transports, and Gheorghe Barbu, Minister of Labour, informed at the end of last week that they would cease to participate within the commission responsible for the privatisation of Daewoo Craiova.…
Telekom Austria, in negotiations for taking over part of RomTelecom
Apart from the Greek owners, RomTelecom may have Austrian holders as well, Antena3 TV channel informs. OTE is developing merger negotiations with Telekom Austria and according to media from Vienna, fine tuning has already been reached, and this transaction could be completed even during next months. This is only part of what is preparing. On the other side, the Greek State prepares to sell around half of the shares held in OTE. The groups participating in this maintain silence in relation to discussions, but these have reached an advanced stage, and the transaction is supported by Vienna group, according to the Austrian part.…
Romania has no plans to open labour market to non-EU countries
Authorities’ main objective is to attract Romanian workers currently abroad, given that workers’ immigration abroad led to a shortage of domestic labour force, President Traian Basescu said in an interview to Spanish daily ‘El Mundo,’ posted on the website of the presidential administration on Friday.…
Bucharest Reproves Article on Ethnic Roma in British Media
Bucharest - President of National Council To Fight Discrimination, or CNCD, Csaba Asztalos, claims the attitude of British printed press against the Romanian citizens is hostile, degrading and humiliating, as a reaction to an article in Daily Mail pointing out the ethnic Roma in Romania would be on the verge to "invade" Great Britain.…
Linklaters loses five lawyers as Romanian boutique trend continues
Linklaters' Romania office has lost five lawyers who quit to launch their own independent boutique in the country's capital Bucharest.…
It's Not Just The New OTP Logo That Sucks
Some people may not approve of the overuse on the words "suck," "sucky" and, in particular, "suckiness," on these pages, but sometimes there are none better, especially when it comes to the Hungarian banking sector.…