01.30.2012

Romania's Government on Monday decided that the car pollution tax, charged on the first sale of cars registered before 2007, would be suspended until next year, with a refund offered to car owners who more

01.30.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc will negotiate a potential raise in public wages and pensions with the International Monetary Fund, leaders of the country’s ruling coalition decided Monday. more

01.27.2012

Romania has lifted the bad weather alert for heavy snowfall and blizzards in all regions, except for the southeastern counties of Tulcea and Constanta, which will remain under a yellow code advisory more

01.27.2012

Board members at state-run companies will be chosen by independent human resources experts, the annual and six-month financial reports will be published on corporate websites, as will the salaries of more

01.26.2012

Romania's Government will suspend the car pollution tax to "reevaluate" its social impact and will refund people who bought used cars since January 13, 2012 and paid the tax, although this will cost more

01.26.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc called on the ministers of Defense and Transport to use military equipment, including army tanks, for emergency snow removal. more

01.25.2012

Romania's Government has announced that income from the sale of scrap to scrapyards will be considered "income from miscellaneous sources" and will be subject to a 16% tax. more

01.25.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely informed the Government Wednesday about his plan to suspend for one year the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in more

01.25.2012

The Romanian Government proposes that the new Civil Procedure Code be applied starting June 1, 2012, Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu said Wednesday. more

01.25.2012

Crowding and discontent, this was the atmosphere on Tuesday morning in front of the Fiscal Administration of Bucharest's 2nd district, where around 100 people were queuing up to submit the necessary more

01.24.2012

Romania's Government will bar the state's creditors from launching forced execution proceedings or placing distraint on shares in national companies received as guarantees, and will also refrain from more

01.24.2012

The Romanian Government will not amend a law that cut state allowances for revolutionaries, the institution said in a press release Tuesday. more

01.23.2012

The Romanian Parliament meets Monday in an extraordinary session to analyze the situation in the country, while the prime minister admitted for the first time that early elections could be organized. more

01.21.2012

Hundreds of Romanian protesters have gathered in Bucharest’s University Square Saturday for the ninth straight day, giving voice to their anger at the head of state and the government, and urging more

01.20.2012

Several thousand people rallied by an Opposition demonstration Thursday brought reinforcements to the University Square protest in Bucharest. more

01.18.2012

Romanian government Wednesday approved the legal framework that will allow the central bank to create a bridge bank to manage and insulate financially troubled lenders. more

01.18.2012

The Bucharest City Hall has authorized the organization of an anti-government protest rally and march by the opposition Social Liberal Union on Thursday afternoon, general mayor Sorin Oprescu said more

01.18.2012

Romania's Government will carry out flood prevention projects worth a total 451.7 million (over EUR100 million) in six counties: Arges, Bihor, Cluj, Covasna, Dambovita and Maramures. more

01.17.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Tuesday said the Government will ease procedures to set up a firm, will ensure extra financing for young entrepreneurs and will grant state aid to enterprises that more

01.16.2012

Romania’s health minister will set up a team tasked with drafting a new healthcare bill, with input from social partners, associations of patients and doctors, Prime Minister Emil Boc told a news more

01.13.2012

Romanian Health Minister Ladislau Ritli has pulled the healthcare bill out of public debate, on the request of Prime Minister Emil Boc, the Government announced Friday. more

01.12.2012

The Romanian authority that administers government real estate properties, or RA-APPS, has started procedures to sell 130 realties, including apartments in central Bucharest, shopping centers, land, more

01.11.2012

Romania's Government estimates the total value of car pollution tax refunds, resulting from the difference between the old tax and the new tax, will not exceed 200 million lei (EUR45.8 million), said more

01.09.2012

Romania's Government is only now trying to recover the funds allotted by the EU in 2009 to counter the damage created by the 2008 floods and spent illegally, as revealed by an audit of the Court of more

01.06.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has asked the ministers of Finance and of the Interior to take action against tax evasion, focusing on "high evasion," as well as step up controls using teams made up more