*Record unemployment among University graduates: 53,000 graduates can't find jobs – in Ziarul Financiar
*How does Microsoft Romania keep its employees: salaries above average, premium cars and subscriptions to massage sessions – in Ziarul Financiar
*Nestor: Lawyers' fees have dropped by 40%. From the gray area there are kamikaze offers which make it hard to compete – in Ziarul Financiar
*Vodafone revenues down 12% to EUR 425 million, due to recession and drop in tarriffs – in Ziarul Financiar
*Smaller damages made room for EUR 26 million profit for VIG – in Ziarul Financiar

Faced with the current international financial crisis, most companies have given up on their human resources development programs. But the alternative of using European Union funding could allow companies to train their staff or develop HR programs, as Romania has access to a large amount of European funding dedicated to human resources. Romania-Insider.com looks at funds for HR and at the companies that got them.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) has been included in the FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index, which reflects the evolution of prices for listed stock exchanges and other trading venues. It includes 18 other stock exchange operators in the world, among which Deutsche Bourse, London Stock Exchange Group, NASDAQ OMX Group, NYSE Euronext and the Hong Kong stock exchange HKEX.

Store theft is the biggest problem retailer New Yorker has been facing in Romania since opening stores in the country and the phenomenon affects all the companies in the textile industry, said Mihai Şindrilaru, general manager with New Yorker for Romania, quoted by newswire Mediafax.

Vega Company has bought the tourist complex Faleza near the Danube quay in Galati city for EUR 2.6 million, the Tourism Ministry has announced. Five bidders attended the bid for the 3,500 sqm hotel complex on the Galati Danube quay. The starting price was of EUR 1.1 million

Romania's Environment Ministry could increase the car pollution tax from next year, justified by the

Multinational company CA Technologies has opened a representative office in Bucharest, according to Madalin Bratu, channel account manager for Romania with CA Technologies, quoted by Agerpres newswire.

Swedish band Roxette will perform in Romania for the first time on May 30 next year, at Zone Arena, according to Emagic, which organizes the concert. Roxette fans from Romania and the CEE region will be able to listen to Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson in a concert which is included in the band's world tour scheduled for 2011.

The Romanian Transport Ministry has proposed seven projects, worth almost EUR 440 million, to improve ship transport on the Danube. Funding for these projects, which are part of the Danube Strategy, should come from European Union operational programs.

Discovery's TLC channel will be launched in Romania on January 20, 2011, and it will be initially distributed both in analog and digital formats by telecom operator UPC Romania, according to Discovery Networks representatives. TLC is owned by Discovery Communications and addresses an audience mostly made of women, being popular in the United States.

Wilfried Lebas, who has been running the Romanian subsidiary of French Lactalis, the LaDorna company, has left his position and will be replaced by Romanian Dorel Radu, according to Romania media quoting the Official Gazette.

Romania’s trade deficit narrowed to EUR6.9 billion in January to September, from EUR 7.1 billion in the year-earlier period, as exports rose more rapidly than imports, according to the country’s statistics institute INS. Exports rose 26.5 percent on the year to EUR 26.8 billion, while imports were up 18.9 percent to EUR 33.7 billion.