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Romania is hosting in Bucharest, April 2-3, a conference called "Sustainable Tourism - Common Policies of the EU Member States" as part of its presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2019. The event will be attended by experts from representative European organisations and specialist bodies of the relevant ministries from the member states of the European Union.

Romania's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in February 2019 declined to 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent as recorded in the previous month, according to data released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

CFR Passengers informs that as of March 31, 2019 the railway transport activity will move to the official summer time, 3:00hrs am becoming 4:00hrs, but the train schedule in force will not change, and the traffic will be carried out according to the timetable provided in the train schedule.

Six out of 10 Romanians, namely 63 percent want to have their own business, the percentage being significantly higher among men (72 percent), 18-23 year old youth (77 percent) and adults aged between 24 and 38 (75 percent), according to a study carried out by a market research company. The data were collected in January this year and are representative at urban level.

The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) managed to remove 98pct of the custom duties for the Romanian exporters and importers and to open the Canadian services market for the Romanian companies, Minister for Business Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea said on Tuesday, at a meeting with Kevin Hamilton, the ambassador of Canada to Romania, and with S

Laws appear without an analysis of legitimacy and we wind up with laws that breach laws, and the Constitutional Court declares them unconstitutional, National Bank of Romania (BNR) strategy consultant Adrian Vasilescu said on Wednesday in reference to the laws on credit agreements, leasing operations and financial relations in the banking area.

Minister of Public Finance Eugen Teodorovici announced on Monday in Parliament that the Government will come up with a proposal to amend Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 114, resulting from the dialogue and the interest of the business environment, not through the coercion or under the pressure of companies. "I have always been a man of dialogue, and I will repeat it as many times as necessary.

Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea presented in Brussels at the meeting of the second EU-Agriculture and Fisheries Council, chaired by Romania since taking over the presidency, the steps taken regarding the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), to be enforced as of 2021, and which must be "convenient for all and valuable to everyone".

The overall industry turnover (domestic and foreign market) increased by 4.3pct in January 2019 as compared to the same month of the previous year and by 4pct as compared to December 2018, according to data published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

The execution of the general consolidated budget for this January ended with a surplus of 700 million lei, or 0.07 pct of GDP, down from the 1.98 billion lei or 0.21 percent of GDP recorded in the same month of 2017, the Ministry of Public Finance informs on Tuesday.