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		<title>Head of Romanian Central Bank operations becomes country&#8217;s new representative at IMF</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romania will have a new representative at the International Monetary Fund, after the incumbent Mihai Tanasescu has been named vice-president of the European Investment Bank. He will be replaced by Şerban Matei, the head of operations in the Romanian Central Bank (BNR). He will take over the new job at the end of this summer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign investments down again in first quarter in Romania</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicola Peyton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign investments stood at EUR 425 million in the first quarter of the year in Romania, covering 78.1 percent of the current account deficit. Investments were down EUR 19 million on the first quarter of 2011, which saw an external investment of EUR 444 million. Romania’s current account deficit from January to March this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity and volunteering in Romania &#8211; everyone can make a difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleonore of Schaumburg-Lippe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her new weekly series on Romania-Insider.com, Danish columnist Eleonore of Schaumburg-Lippe writes about the involvement in charity work in Romania and how to work it into busy schedules.  &#8220;Charity work, yes, it is a good thing, but I just don’t have the time to get involved&#8221;. This, sadly, is the answer I often hear when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romania, at the bottom of the European league for digital TV services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ioana Toader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romania ranks among the last in Europe for the digitization of TV services, with only 42 percent of Romanians receiving digital television services, according to SES, a satellite services company. SES wants to create an action group with other players, such as TVR, to give an impulse to digitization. The only country in Europe completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: Romania&#8217;s economic ship on a tight course, with dangers all around</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Lever</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growth of 1.5 percent in GDP in 2012? I&#8217;m not sure, but I certainly hope so. Representatives of the recent IMF mission to Romania stuck to the 1.5 percent prediction. And they should know, right? As high priests of the world economy initiated into the mysteries of globalization, their predictions should count. But recent results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Romanian company leaders fear globalization, blame lack of efficiency on tough economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around half Romanian -owned company leaders think globalization will have a negative impact on their business in 2012, while among leaders of foreign companies, only 22 percent think globalization will cause harm, according to a recent study by local company Solutii Avansate and Griffiths School of Management. Three quarters of company managers in Romania blame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking, IT, pharma bring highest wages in Romania</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ioana Toader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees of IT, banking and pharma companies have the highest wages in Romania, but the difference in salary between a middle position and top management is very high, according to recruitment company Trenkwalder. In Bucharest, the wages offered are 30 percent more than the national average, according to a statement from Trenkwalder. A software programmer-be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New French president&#8217;s first meeting with Merkel focuses on Greece, economic growth in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicola Peyton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly sworn in French president Francois Holland flew to Berlin this week for his first as president meeting with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor to discuss fiscal policy and how to boost economic growth throughout recession hit Europe. Hollande&#8217;s flight was struck by lightning on the way to Berlin. Could it mean sparks in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graells &amp; Llonch starts second industrial park in Romania with EUR 200 mln</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish real estate developer Graells &#38; Llonch started work on its second real estate project in Romania, a EUR 200 million park in Turda city, Cluj county. The park will cover 545,000 sqm and will include areas for various production companies, as well as logistics space for distribution and logistics companies. In total, the park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: Here, but not here &#8211; the case of the smart-phone twitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronnie Smith </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once made the mistake of continuing, bravely, with a sales presentation to the finance department of an international company in Bucharest while my audience was busy checking e-mails, spreadsheets and surfing the internet. I should, of course, have ended the meeting and walked out as soon as I saw them shuffling into the room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romanian PM: Country is stable, EUR 1 billion from World Bank for unpredictable situations</title>
		<link>http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-pm-country-is-stable-eur-1-billion-from-world-bank-for-unpredictable-situations/57377/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romania&#8217;s situation is stable and the country will soon approve a EUR 1 billion credit line from the World Bank, said the country&#8217;s Prime Minister Victor Ponta (in picture) on Tuesday evening. He mentioned the local currency’s fluctuation, saying it was fluctuating less than other currencies in the region, and that the Romanian Central Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPC Romania announces slight growth in customers in Q1 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Lever</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital TV, internet and fixed line telephone operator UPC Romania has recorded at least some growth across all its areas of activity in the first quarter of 2012. UPC&#8217;s total number of revenue generating units (RGU), or subscriptions in other words, increased to 1.6 million by the end of March this year. Across UPC&#8217;s different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romanian museums open doors for insomniacs this week-end</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bucharest museums will be open all night on May 19, when exhibitions, music, dance and theater performances will be organized and people will be able to visit museums for free, in this year&#8217;s &#8216;Night of Museums&#8217;. Across Romania, approximately 100 museums will welcome night visitors, joining a total of 3,000 museums in Europe that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Romania village hosts international horse show this week-end</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romania will host the Transylvania Horse Show international event next week-end, bringing 80 competitors from 15 countries to the village of Prod, 16 kilometers from Sighisoara, in Central Romania. The event will include two international equestrian competitions and a series of demonstrations and shows, and will start on May 18. The International Complete Competition will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy rain affects glass ceiling of newly opened Romanian National Library headquarters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsroom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heavy rain in Bucharest on Tuesday afternoon, which inundated streets in various areas of the capital city Bucharest  also took by surprise the employees of the National Library, as the glass ceiling of the library&#8217;s new building started leaking, already damaging the floor in the Library&#8217;s large atrium. The Library inaugurated its building earlier in [...]]]></description>
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