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Is the union wedding cancelled or postponed?
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 31) A national Conference of a federation, the federation of Petrom trade unions, which initially was expected to bring few headlines to the...
Russia - declining and dreaming of power
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 31) While numerous Russians - fascinated by Vladimir Putin's authoritarian and peremptory attitude for the West - are deluding themselves wi...
Investors are no longer drawn by incentives, but by better legislation
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 30) Anthony van der Heijden led the operations of the Dutch financial group ING Barings in Romania for five years, and afterwards was invest...
VAE Apcarom wants double profit this year
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 30) Net profit estimated by Buzau-based company VAE Apcarom for this year is almost 11 billion lei, double than in 1999 when it stood at 5.0...
Romania lost one million inhabitants in ten years
For almost a decade, Romania has been subject to an inexorable demographic decline. Every year, the population is decreasing and becoming older. Figures supplied by the National Statistics C...
Slovakia has its eyes on OECD
(story to published in tomorrow's issue, March 30) The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development was overshadowed by the European Union and NATO after 1989, when Romania set fort...
Let's not make the Balkans a mobsters' heaven!
(story to be published in tomorrow's issue, March 30) This week in Brussels the World Bank and the EU Executive Commission organise the Conference for Regional Financing in Southeast Europe,...
Year 2000 and still not kicking
(story to published in tomorrow's issue, March 30) We have finally made it into the twenty-first century (or at least some claim we have), but, to my huge disappointment, somehow, things are...
IMF approves technical extension of agreement
The executive directors of the International Monetary Fund were to decide on Monday evening whether they agreed to the 60-day extension of the loan agreement concluded with Romania, but the...