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Confusion from top to bottom
The latest poll by Metro Media Transilvania explicitly reflects the impressions on voters' minds. After ten years when the entire political class has been to power and failed to make a point...
SIFs are blocking Banca Agricola privatisation
Privatisation of Banca Agricola (The Agricultural Bank - BA) has reached a deadlock and it may be delayed because of the Financial Investment Companies (SIF), which together own 28% in the b...
Gallaher buys cigarette company
Gallaher Group, the UK tobacco company that has been struggling to expand its overseas business, emerged yesterday as the winner of a bidding battle for Liggett-Ducat, the cigarette manufact...
Apollo battles with employees of Ciorapi Timisoara
Pantyhose producer Apollo Bucuresti plans to take over 24 percent of Ciorapi Timisoara, as part of its long-term development strategy, but employees of the Timisoara plant announced, in resp...
Signs of economic recovery
The first part of the year was marked by the submission to Brussels of the national development Strategy and the signing of the accord with the International Monetary Fund, as well as tensio...
U.S. prosecutors charge 120 in fraud
The largest number of people ever charged with securities fraud, including mob figures and top officers of a popular chain restaurant, were arrested on Wednesday for sprawling schemes centre...
Inflation and economic recovery
A few years ago, the Romanian translation of "The economy lesson," the famous book by American professor and journalist Henry Hazlit, saw the light of day. In the same spirit, Prime Minister...
Arrest of SNP Petrom head - a hatchet from whom to whom?
Ioan Popa, the general manager of the largest company in Romania, SNP (National Oil Company) Petrom, was unexpectedly arrested yesterday, on a five-day period, following some oil deals opera...
Parties in the nuptial season
Although the second round of the locals is still ahead, most parties are already looking closely at the legislative elections. The countdown has begun, and the first round on June 4 failed t...