Florentina Cernat

Fitch Ratings on Friday affirmed the Romanian City of Bucharest's Long-Term Local- and Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'BBB-' with stable outlook, according to a release of this financial rating agency.

Moreover, the rating agency also affirmed the Short-Term Foreign-Currency IDR at 'F3'.

Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici announced on Thursday that he asked Prime Minister Viorica Dancila to dismiss chairman of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) Ionut Misa, and that he filed a replacement proposal.

Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici announced on Thursday that he asked Prime Minister Viorica Dancila to dismiss chairman of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) Ionut Misa.

"ANAF must radically change its behaviour in economy," the minister said. AGERPRES (RO - author: Florentina Cernat, editor: Nicoleta Gherasi; EN - author: Adina Panaitescu, editor: Rodica State)

Bucharest, Dec 29 /Agerpres/ - The Ministry of Transport has halted the entire road transport sector and the operators are preparing big protests in the country and in Europe, reads a Saturday's release issued by the Federation of Romanian Transport Operators (FORT) for AGERPRES.

The recently passed laws in the Parliament that bring modifications to the financial system will result in curtailing the loans given to the real economy and will negatively affect the financial stability, Alejandro Hajdenberg, the resident representative of the International Monetary Funds for Romania and Bulgaria, told AGERPRES.

Over 4,000 users signed-up with the Start-Up Nation 2018 app and, at 12:45hrs, a number of 1,401 business plans had already been registered, three hours after the app was launched, Business Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship Minister Stefan-Radu Oprea said on Thursday.

The draft of the Emergency Ordinance (OUG) providing for a set of measures among which the capping of the natural gas price is a proposal assumed by the Romanian Government to protect the population against possible price raises of the natural gas above the population's affordability, a release by the Ministry of Energy sent to AGERPRES reads.

Elbit Systems, a company running defense, security and civil projects, inaugurated on Tuesday a new unit for the production and integration of terrestrial defense systems in Magurele, said Yehuda Vered, CEO of Elbit Systems' Terrestrial and C4i Systems Division.

Romania is getting close to its 100th birthday with a lot of things to be proud of, but it's important to be united not only in terms of its geographical borders, but also in terms of the opportunities that it gives to all its people, Country Manager for Romania and Hungary of the World Bank Tatiana Proskuryakova told AGERPRES in an interview.

Romania's mergers and acquisitions market, including deals without a publicly revealed value, ranged between 1.4 and 1.6 billion euro in Q3, by 15 percent higher than in the similar period of the previous year, according to an analysis carried out by consultancy company Deloitte.