Banca Comercială Romana (BCR) has granted EUR 517 million of loans in the First House 1 and 2 programs, more than a third of its quota within the program. Most of the loans were granted in Bucharest – over 4,000 loans, worth a total of EUR 196 million.

Best Film Fest, a film festival which will reward the best Romanian movies and actors of 2010 will take place in Bucharest between January 28 and February 3. The 11th edition of the festival will be organized at the Studio cinema in Bucharest.

Romania-Insider.com starts a series of articles on intercultural communication, focusing on practical aspects that will help you deal with your Romanian business partners as well as with partners in the Eastern Europen region, while bridging the cultural differences between them. Read the introductory article of this series below and feel free to send us your ideas or examples of actual situations where more knowledge on intercultural communication would have come in handy.

Romania needs more profound reforms on the social allowances and occupation segments of the public sector and these could take one or two years, which is why joining the euro zone could be delayed from the planned 2015, according to the governor of the Romanian Central Bank (BNR), Mugur Isarescu (in picture).

As many as 400 foreign tourists, among whom British, French and Americans, have made bookings and are waited for this winter at the Ice Hotel at Balea Lac, the only ice hotel in Eastern Europe.

One of the advisers of Romanian democrat liberal Gheorghe Flutur, president of the Suceava County Council, northeastern Romania, will walk the distance between Vienna, Austria, and Suceava to promote the tourism project "Pilgrim in Bucovina", financed with European funds.

Energy company CEZ has sold its 9.15 percent participation in EnergoNuclear, the company which will build the 3 and 4 nukes in Cernavoda project in Romania, to Nuclearelectrica. CEZ has previously announced its plan to withdraw from the project while focusing on its home market in the Czech Republic and consolidate existing investments abroad.

The Bucharest City Hall will organize a bid on January 19 to choose the company which will build and operate the underground car park in Alba Iulia square, estimated to require EUR 84.6 million. The car park, on three underground levels, will provide 1,490 parking spaces.

Investment fund East Balkan Properties (EBP – formerly Equest Balkan Properties) has sold a 51 percent stake in its Romanian properties Vitantis Shopping Center in Bucharest and Moldova Mall in Iasi to Denesol Limited, a Cyprus – based company owned by George Teleman, for a symbolic value of EUR 5.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) recorded EUR 2.15 billion of trade on all its segments during 2010, up 29 percent on 2009. The volume of shares and shares rights trading reached EUR 1.48 million, up 10.7 percent on the previous year. The bonds market doubled to EUR 620 million, while the futures segment also grew by 59 percent, to EUR 25.3 million.

Banca Comercială Romana (BCR) has granted EUR 517 million of loans in the First House 1 and 2 programs, more than a third of its quota within the program. Most of the loans were granted in Bucharest – over 4,000 loans, worth a total of EUR 196 million.

Best Film Fest, a film festival which will reward the best Romanian movies and actors of 2010 will take place in Bucharest between January 28 and February 3. The 11th edition of the festival will be organized at the Studio cinema in Bucharest.

Romania-Insider.com starts a series of articles on intercultural communication, focusing on practical aspects that will help you deal with your Romanian business partners as well as with partners in the Eastern Europen region, while bridging the cultural differences between them. Read the introductory article of this series below and feel free to send us your ideas or examples of actual situations where more knowledge on intercultural communication would have come in handy.

Romania needs more profound reforms on the social allowances and occupation segments of the public sector and these could take one or two years, which is why joining the euro zone could be delayed from the planned 2015, according to the governor of the Romanian Central Bank (BNR), Mugur Isarescu (in picture).

As many as 400 foreign tourists, among whom British, French and Americans, have made bookings and are waited for this winter at the Ice Hotel at Balea Lac, the only ice hotel in Eastern Europe.

One of the advisers of Romanian democrat liberal Gheorghe Flutur, president of the Suceava County Council, northeastern Romania, will walk the distance between Vienna, Austria, and Suceava to promote the tourism project "Pilgrim in Bucovina", financed with European funds.

Energy company CEZ has sold its 9.15 percent participation in EnergoNuclear, the company which will build the 3 and 4 nukes in Cernavoda project in Romania, to Nuclearelectrica. CEZ has previously announced its plan to withdraw from the project while focusing on its home market in the Czech Republic and consolidate existing investments abroad.

The Bucharest City Hall will organize a bid on January 19 to choose the company which will build and operate the underground car park in Alba Iulia square, estimated to require EUR 84.6 million. The car park, on three underground levels, will provide 1,490 parking spaces.

Investment fund East Balkan Properties (EBP – formerly Equest Balkan Properties) has sold a 51 percent stake in its Romanian properties Vitantis Shopping Center in Bucharest and Moldova Mall in Iasi to Denesol Limited, a Cyprus – based company owned by George Teleman, for a symbolic value of EUR 5.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) recorded EUR 2.15 billion of trade on all its segments during 2010, up 29 percent on 2009. The volume of shares and shares rights trading reached EUR 1.48 million, up 10.7 percent on the previous year. The bonds market doubled to EUR 620 million, while the futures segment also grew by 59 percent, to EUR 25.3 million.