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The shareholders of Băneasa Investment SA, the company controlled indirectly by Puiu Popoviciu, which developed the notorious Băneasa project in the Northern area of Bucharest recently approved the plan to request from the state facilities for...

The unionists of the Port of Constanţa are accusing the local authorities of wanting to pull one last "real estate scheme", through the government's intention to transfer the ownership of 13% of the shares of the Port of...

Our sociologists have waited with bated breath, but not the results of the elections for the European parliament, as we would have expected, but rather the wondrous exit-poll of the "The Infopolitic Center for Studies and Research"...

Sociologists were expecting a voter turnout of less than 30% for yesterday's elections for the European Parliament. Whereas for the politicians, this ballot represented a test prior to autumn's presidential elections, citizens are not...

I've been reading for a while the press release of the SAR about "the Launch of the Coalition for a Clean Mass Media (CPC)" and I just can't get myself to tackle the subject, because I can't make up my mind on how to come at...

Vote attendance at the Europarliamentary elections promises to be ridiculously low, perhaps the lowest in the history of Romania (at any rate below 30%). That says a lot about the cheap and ridiculous politicking that is deprived of vision, and...

Even though they have banded together into an entity whose goal is to discuss with the authorities the issues investors are faced with, businesspeople now find themselves needing to publicly protest against the tax on special constructions, as...

The Ordinance concerning the tax on special constructions has major problems that can't be solved by the clarifications passed yesterday in the government meeting, representatives of the business sector told us.

Suspicions concerning foreign interests are once again being brought up, following the proposal to shift a 13% stake of the Port of Constanţa from the Ministry of Transports to the Local council, an issue which sparked a huge scandal and has...

One customer of XTB is accusing the brokerage firm of unjustly canceling a number of his trades closed at a substantial profit, claiming that they were performed at the wrong price.

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) is conducting its own audits at "Omniasig", where last week searches were conducted and several people are suspected by the prosecutors of abuse in office and forgery.

The Financial Oversight Authority (ASF), the institution in charge of overseeing the insurance market, the one which should have prevented the resounding scandals uncovered by the prosecutors, yesterday sent a "reassuring" message to the...

Yesterday, the prosecutors searched 49 "Omniasig" branches, on suspicions that the CEO and over other 40 executives forged over 1 million insurance policies, just one day after Peter Hagen, the head of Vienna Insurance Group (VIG), which...

The 12 F16 Block 15 aircraft recently acquired by the Romanian Air Forces, will be used for the air police, as well as for fighting enemy actions, according to sources in the Romanian army.

In preparing government strategy for supporting SMEs and improving the business environment 2020 has uncovered two major problems: there is a very small number of active small enterprises, a very small number of medium enterprises and too few of...

The outcome of a business comes from the mark of the entrepreneur, says Cristina Chiriac, the chairwoman of the National Association of Entrepreneurs.

Athlete Monica Iagăr, professional athlete, considers that business, just like sports, should only be done as long as being involved in business offers happiness, even if though there may be some difficult moments.

Almost half of the domestic companies are led by women (43% in 2012), said Andreea Paul, the vice-president of the Budget, Finance and Banks Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.

The National Salt Company - Salrom SA last year achieved a profit of 38.7 million lei, up 86% over 2012, said Alina Floroian, marketing economist with the company.

The current law of unemployment must be amended, to stop the discrimination against entrepreneurs and businesspeople that remain jobless, said Gabriella Bisi, the chairwoman of the "She Business" business club.

Anca Vlad, the CEO of Catena Grup, is an ardent supporter of entrepreneurial spirit and thinks that you can't have a successful business without taking risks.

Entrepreneurship has no gender, says Sorana Mantho, Head of Corporate Affairs at Philip Morris Romania and Bulgaria, who thinks that the recipe of success in business is that of "common sense, which any professional applies in his...

Romania must encourage entrepreneurial spirit more, through greater transparency and through a more stable fiscal environment, Ravi Buck, economic officer of the US Embassy told BURSA.

A woman should have a mentor when setting herself off in business, according to Mrs. Corina Vinţan, CEO Links Associates, who thinks that female entrepreneurs should start businesses that would contribute to overall growth.

Female entrepreneurs can't rely on politicians, said Smaranda Vornicu, Managing Partner Blues Line Salons: "We need to help ourselves so we can one day break through that glass ceiling and reach the world of big business".

Any thing that is done well will show results, says Adriana Tănăsoiu, the CEO of the Central Depository.

There are some banks on the Romanian market that blackmail their customers into not working with certain law firms, according to lawyer and professor Gheorghe Piperea Law PhD.

The Romanian Generic Drug Manufacturers Association (APMGR) asks for more transparency in the calculation process of the clawback tax, by the reporting of the number of discounted units by the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAS), in the...

The stock market community has been keeping silent even though two months ago, a draft for amending the legislation has been forwarded to the prime-minister, originating, at least officially, from Ludwik Sobolewski, Florin Pogonaru and Steven van...

The scenario of a conflict in Ukraine has become increasingly likely, as the forces involved in this conflict - the Ukrainian army, Russia, the US - are ready to intervene. Already, the violent fights in the region have caused victims.

Last week, the prosecutors of the DIICOT have announced that they have conducted an operation for dismantling a criminal faction specializing in the manipulation of the stock market.

Our country will have to ensure for itself 45% or the power demand from nuclear sources by 2050, compared to18-20% as it is for the moment, states the senator Şerban Valeca, who is also the president of the scientific council of the Piteşti...

Oradea prosecutor Alexandru Lele is the one who, in April 2001, ordered the arrest of Adrian Tărău, the son of an influential sponsor of the PSD who was also the prefect of the county, under the charge of complicity in the oil products smuggling....

The AstraZeneca Board of Directors rejected on friday the improved offer for taking over the British company by the American group Pfizer, that evaluated AstraZeneca at 63.1 billion pounds (106.5 billion dollars), considering the proposal terms...

Tudor Ciurezu, the CEO of SIF Oltenia, seems to have won the first battle in the conflict with businessman Florin Pogonaru, at least according to the way some investors are viewing the outcomes of yesterday's General Shareholder Meeting,...

The shareholders of SIF Oltenia are meeting today in the General Shareholder Meeting to approve the balance sheet, on the second convening, which could provide a picture of the strength of the factions within the company, wherein the conflict...

Accustomed as he was to the reverence that he was received with in the beginning, Ludwik Sobolewski, the CEO of the BSE, must have had a shock on Friday, at the General Shareholder Meeting, when the market community, which he remembered to be...

Reporter: Please give us more details about the international event that World Trade Center Bucharest will be hosting in the coming days.

The admirable restraint shown by market participants for more than eight months now has been broken by the president of the Association of Brokers, Dan Paul, who just couldn't take it anymore after the aberration proposed by the CEO of the...

According to the Delegate Minister for Energy, the tense situation in Ukraine is no major problem, because Romania is ready to deal with any situation. He told us in an interview that the country has enough domestically produced gas to meet...