calendar of events at the seaside and in mountain resorts for the period August 27-29.

Calendar of events in Bucharest for the period August 27-29.

Former journalist Radu Cosarca will become Enel Romania's external relations manager, according to Mediafax newswire. He will take over the new position in September, when he will undergo a training period. During this period, the current external relations director, Paolo Chighine will continue on the job until the end of the fall, when Radu Cosarca will take on the job responsibilities, according to Enel's press office.

The Austrian chamber music orchestra Johann Strauss Ensemble will perform in Romania in December, within their Romanian national Christmas tour. The Bucharest show, under the name Best of Vienna, will he held on December 11 at Sala Palatului in the capital city, starting 20,00 hours. The show will include compositions which became famous over time in the Austrian capital city.

Several Greek real estate investors plan to build an amusement park on a 30-hectare plot in Chiajna near the A1 highway, across the street from Carrefour Militari, with the first phase of the project expected to be finalized next year, romania-insider.com has learned.

ProCredit Bank has a new president, after having promoted Ilinca Rosetti to this position. Posetti has previously been part of the bank's executive management as the director of banking services. Before that, she was general manager of ProCredit Moldova.

Alina Drăgan is the new executive vice-president in charge of the human resources division with UniCredit Tiriac Bank. She started out in the new position in August this year, after receiving the ok from the Romanian Central Bank (BNR). Dragan will supervise the bank's human resources objectives.

Romania will give 1,7 million pupils an apple a day during the 2010-2011 school year, part of the program 'Fruits in schools'. This program has a budget of EUR 13.4 million, out of which EUR 9.7 mln come from European funding, and EUR 3.7 million from the national budget.

After a confusing week for holders of intellectual property rights and registered individuals in Romania, who were supposed to apply and pay their social contributions on a very short notice and without many details about the process, only 10 percent of them actually went to submit the required documents. The deadline to do so was yesterday, when people queued at the pension houses and at the workforce agencies to submit and pay their respective dues.

The Romanian Parliament passed a change to the Constitutional Court law which makes it possible for large corruption cases to continue even when the constitutional challenges will be invoked. This will be applied only to new lawsuits, while the ones where the constitutional challenge has been raised will continue under the old ruling.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is analyzing the possibility to lend up to EUR 200 million for the Kaulfand operations in Poland and Bulgaria and for Lidl's activity in Romania and Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian media. The funding should cover the market entry costs for the two retailers on these new markets.

BNR admits: Banks passed the crisis by throwing the burden to consumers – in Ziarul Financiar, Kazakhs menace the state with Petromidia shutdown, while having the most powerful lawyers aside – in Ziarul Financiar, Raiffeisen, ING and BRD will list Fondul Proprietatea – in Ziarul Financiar, Flanco escapes bankruptcy after eight months of emotions – in Ziarul Financiar, Consumer loans from 2005 have the biggest arrears – in Ziarul Financiar, Chaos for submitting declarations for intellectual property rights and registered individuals – in Gandul