Last year Romania had a great chance to take advantage of neighbors’ problems and rise as an economic power in the South Eastern Europe. Instead, the vast majority of Romanian politicians did anything possible to spend the country’s potential and lose great ground. Finally, at the year-end, the atmosphere calmed and in the dawn of ..

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The National Bank of Romania's (BNR) Board of Directors on Monday decided to keep the monetary policy rate at 5.25 percent per annum, the institution said in a release. During the meeting held on Jan. 7, 2013, the Central Bank directors also decided to adequately manage the bank system liquidity, maintain the current levels of ..

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The number of planning permissions issued for residential buildings decreased in the first 11 months of 2012 by 3.2 percent from the same period of last year, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).As many as 35,521 planning permissions were issued from January to November 2012.Significant decreases in the number ..

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Sales by e-commerce site eMAG in the first two weeks of December 2012 were by 52 percent higher than the amount recorded in the same period last year, as three million Romanians sought Christmas gifts in this online store, the company informs.To avoid crowded stores, increasingly more Romanians have this year turned to the internet ..

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