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Trade unions undermine proposals of foreign investors to relaunch labour market
Only one of the five proposals to modify the Labour Code made by the Foreign Investors Council (CIS) and AmCham has been accepted by the draft variant proposed by trade unions and employers'...
Why is the state borrowing 100m euros from BRD and BCR for Otopeni airport?
The Otopeni Airport upgrade will be financed via a 100 million-euro "private" loan taken out by the national company that manages it, although theoretically the state borrowed 20 billion eur...
2011 will be the year of PC tablets, say eMag and Pcfun
Around 20,000 Romanians have an e-reader and a tablet PC, but the market will boom over the next few years along with the development of the content offer (books, applications) and of mobile...
Romanian cruise sales are 10% of what they could be
Annually, several thousand Romanians choose to go on a cruise for their holiday, with prices starting from several hundred euros, and reaching as much as 45,000 euros, the price of the most...
Gral Medical shareholders want to invest in a hotel
Robert and Georgeta Șerban, owners of Gral Medical private clinic network, want to open a 100-bed hotel outside Bucharest in two years at the latest, for which they are willing to invest 6 o...
Raiffeisen: Demand still the problem with lending
Clients' lack of confidence in the economy, on the one hand, and the low incomes and real estate uncertainties, on the other, are the main hurdles in the way of loan sales picking up, mainta...
Good signs in furniture industry: Silvarom to resume exports after four years
Silvarom furniture producer of Bucharest is in talks to resume exports this year, with Germany as the main destination. "We gave up exports at the moment the RON/euro exchange rate went belo...
First rival for Popoviciu's mall to arrive in September
Băneasa shopping centre of northern Bucharest, controlled by businessman Gabriel Popoviciu, will have its first direct competitor as of autumn, as the retail park part of Colosseum project o...
Crețu, Visa: Business and credit card transactions are picking up
The volume of transactions done on business and credit cards has started mounting rapidly since last autumn, showing companies' financial situation is also improving, says Cătălin Crețu, man...