NEWS OF THE DAY - JUNE 10

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Romania's FOB exports reached up to RON 76,101 billion (16.933 billion euros) January through April this year, while imports climbed up to 83.943 billion (18.682 billion euros), according to provisional estimates of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Tuesday. Compared to the same time span last year, exports increased by 10.6 percent in 2014 in values denominated in RON (and by 8.1 per cent in values denominated in euros), while imports increased by 10.2 per cent in values denominated in RON (and by 7.7 per cent respectively in values denominated in euros).

* Romania's Minister-delegate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, the Business Milieu and Tourism Florin Jianu, is conducting, June 9—10, working visits in Madrid jointly with representatives of the CEPYME Spanish SMEs Confederation, the World Tourism Organisation and Spain's State Secretary for Tourism Isabel Borrego. Talks will focus on tourism clusters that will be implemented in Romania patterned on Spain's good practices. CEPYME is a confederation of employers' associations representing the tights and interests of Spain's SMEs. With 1 million members, it is the most representative in Spain.

* Forum Group, in partnership with Durgau Turda Saline, the Eco-Energy Association and the Romanian Business Consultancy Association (ACAR) launched 'Workcall' project, worth 9 million lei, devoted to the professional training in jobs associated to spa tourism, Forum Group representatives inform. The project is co-funded from the European Social Fund, the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013, 'Invest in people,' and is carried out over an 18-month period (April 2014 — October 2015).

* MP Sonia Maria Draghici has been...

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