France has started sending back to Romania the illegal Roma immigrants it had found in the country, with the first batch due to arrive on Thursday. 93 Romanian citizens of Roma ethnicity will be sent back on two commercial flights today, followed by others in the next days, according to Mediafax newswire quoting data from the Foreign Affairs Ministry. These are all voluntary repatriations and each Roma received EUR 300 to return to Romania, while for children the compensation was of EUR 100.

Local company Avicarvil has finalized the first stage of the investment in “La Provincia, pui de casa” (La Provincia, farm chicken), whose business model relies on raising chicken in a traditional way and then selling poultry on the Romanian market. The company plans to invest in a a fodder factory which should be fueled by locally-produced fodder.

The Romanian Labor Code will be modified this fall to allow a simpler partnership between employer and employees, said Economy Minister Adriean Videanu. “We will have a pleasant surprise in fall. They are working on it,” said Videanu who attended a seminar about energy investments.

Week-end events in the mountain and seaside resorts for the period August 20-22

Week--end events in Bucharest between August 20-22

Romanians' quality of life got worse this year compared to last year, found a research on the quality of life issued by the Romanian Academy. Romanians saw deteriorating political environment and became less satisfied with the way the country is managed.

Bucharest is the most expensive market in Europe based on the report of revenues and the cost of housing, according to a study by Polish company Home Broker. Sofia and Warsaw follow in the top. The average annual salary in Romania, Bulgaria and Poland cover the purchase of only 1-2 square meters of housing in a downtown area.

Romania imported 3.1 million tonnes of equivalent petrol in the first half of this year, which was 10.8 percent less than in the same period of 2009, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.

City Compass organizes its Discover Little Paris Tour on Saturday, August 22nd, at 9,30 hours. The meeting place to start the tour will be the entrance of the Cismigiu garden.

Reuven Havar, who used to run AFI Europe Romania, has been appointed CEO of Atlas Management, the investment division of the investment fund Atas Estates. He has replaced Nahman Tsabar effective of August 16. The investment fund owns a Golden Tulip hotel in Bucharest and several land plots.

Romanian language lesson number nine - learn words you could use in a trip to the mountains

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