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Georgian PM: Our priority is to complete discussions on EU accession

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 17:21

Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibashvili, on Friday stated at the Government House in Bucharest that the main priority of the Government in Tbilisi is to finalize talks on the accession to the European Union, also adding that the authorities in Bucharest have very much supported and continue to support this mission of Georgia.

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More Bulgarians Went on Business Trips, Holidays Abroad in January

Published by Novinite on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 16:45

In January 2015, Bulgarians completed more than 295 000 travels abroad, which represents an increase of 8.3 % compared to the same month of 2014.

This became clear from the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Friday.

Romanian and Georgian Foreign Ministers sign multi-sector collaboration program

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 16:29

The Romanian and Georgian Foreign Ministers, Bogdan Aurescu and Tamar Beruchashvili, respectively, have signed, on Friday, at the Government House, in the presence of the two countries' Prime Ministers, Victor Ponta and Irakli Garibashvili, a program of collaboration between Romania and Georgia in the realms of culture, education and science, mass-media, youth and sports.

Albania's PM announces Albanian students could study in Romania in IT sector, on scholarships

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 14:05

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, at the Government House, on Friday, during a joint statement session with his Romanian counterpart, underscored the importance of signing the agreement between the two countries in the social protection area, but also the future collaboration on a governmental level in the area of education, aimed at granting a number of scholarships to Albanian students who w

PM Ponta offers Albania the surplus energy of Romania

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 13:36

Prime Minister Victor Ponta sees Albania as a potential beneficiary of Romania's surplus energy. After meeting his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama on Friday, Ponta declared they have discussed a possibility of 'concrete collaboration' on energy.

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FinMin: Romanians' wages unlike Germans', taxes should not be equal

Published by Agerpres on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 11:21

The tax alleviation programme in the new Fiscal Code aims at reducing some taxes for individuals and introducing several deductions, to correlate the fiscal burden with the wages, finances minister Darius Valcov said in an interview to AGERPRES.

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Uber Arrives to Mixed Fanfare in Romania

Published by Balkan Insight on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:19

Joy and dismay greeted the arrival on Wednesday in Romania of the increasingly popular car-sharing service UberX, which aims to provide alternative and cheap transportation services.

UberX, a smartphone application that connects passengers to car drivers willing to provide transport services for a small fee, was launched in Bucharest.

Commission Tightens Economic Monitoring of Croatia

Published by Balkan Insight on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 10:07

The European Commission on Wednesday said it plans to introduce strict economic monitoring on Croatia, alarmed by the imbalanced state of the economy.

Stressing that the situation calls for "decisive political action and special monitoring", the Commission said a subsequent decision on activating Excessive Imbalance Procedures, known as EIP, will be made known in May.

Germany's Merkel Remains Cautious over Romania's Schengen Bid

Published by Novinite on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 08:58

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis met in Berlin Thursday to discuss the possible Schengen accession of the Balkan country.

"Romania has a legitimate desire to be part of the Schengen Zone. We'll see that we achieve step-by-step progress on this," Merkel said, as quoted by Deutsche Welle.

Bulgaria Gov't 'Wants to Jail at Least 30 Politicians'

Published by Novinite on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 08:08

At least thirty politicians and administration officials involved in corruption affairs should be sent to prison, under a new anti-corruption strategy cited by Bulgarian media outlets.

A special unit due to be set up Friday and aimed at fighting corruption will dedicate its effort to this end, according to 24 Chasa daily.

Truffle recipes prepared as Romanian first in Miercurea Ciuc-based Italian restaurant

Published by Agerpres on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:53

Liver pate with truffles, focaccia with mozzarella and truffles, or truffles with beef tenderloin are just some of the dishes served as a first in an Italian restaurant in the city of Miercurea Ciuc - Harghita County, and which exquisitely highlight the precious fungus also referred to as 'the diamond of the kitchen', given the difficulty to find it.

Merkel: We mustn't have an undifferentiated attitude towards migration from Romania to Germany

Published by Agerpres on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:04

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said that there mustn't be "an undifferentiated" attitude concerning the migration from Romania to Germany and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that "poverty migration" isn't significant from a numeric point of view, showing that our country is confronted with a difficult phenomenon, namely

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