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Deutsche Telekom in Romania: 1.1bn-euro revenues and 293m-euro EBITDA
Deutsche Telekom, the largest communications operator in Europe, has for the first time included in its yearly financial report data on Romania, with figures showing that the German group has for the first time outranked rivals Orange and Vodafone in terms of revenues, with over 1.1 billion euros…
Ingleby outruns major Romanian farming business owners
Ingleby Agricultura, part of the Ingleby group controlled by Danish billionaire family Rausing, paid 8.2 million euros to buy 2,000 hectares of farming land, machinery and buildings in Timis County from another Danish group, FirstFarms, at the end of December…
Henkel Romania, 571 M lei in 2009 turnover
Henkel Romania ended 2009 with 571 million lei in turnover (approx. 135 million euros), according to a release of the company. In 2009, Henkel Romania's two divisions operating on the consumer goods market, namely the, 'Detergents and Household Cleaning Products' and the 'Cosmetics / Toiletries' divisions, had very good scores…
Statistics: Number of house building permits drops by 46 percent
2,251 house building permits were issued in January 2010, a 46.1 percent decrease as opposed to January 2009, a release of the National Institute of Statistics informs.The number of construction permits for residential buildings released in January 2010 was 1,904, a 22.9 percent decrease in comparison with January 2009…
Mugur Isarescu: You can't build highways with deficit in the pension budget
Highways cannot be built in Romania in the conditions of the significant deficit of the pension budget, BNR governor Mugur Isarescu considers. "At present you cannot build highways with a deficit at the pension budget which absorbs all available sums from the central budget," BNR governor, quoted by Agerpres, declared in Timisoara on Tuesday…
Political migration and perversion of senses
Political migration has again become a problem in Romanian politics, placing under the question mark the representativeness of the present Parliament. Six members of Parliament, of whom two former ministers of the PDL-PSD coalition government - foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu and labour minister Marian Sirbu…