*Economic growth for 2011 is better seen after the third quarter results – in Ziarul Financiar
*Loans for individuals, the hope of banks for the fourth quarter – in Ziarul Financiar
*Mihai Rohan leaves Carpatcement – in Ziarul Financiar
*The crucial test for Schengen area: the airport check – in Ziarul Financiar
*Unhappy Volksbank customers asking bank to discontinue installments – in Ziarul Financiar

Experts from the Schengen Area evaluation committee will visit Romania from Monday to Wednesday, to assess the country's progress on air borders, after some European Union member states expressed their skepticism about Romania's capacity to join the Area in March 2011.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has offered a EUR 10 million credit line to BRD Societe Generale to finance energy efficiency projects in Romania, the bank has announced. The loan is supplementing a similar EUR 10 million credit line offered by the EBRD to BRD in 2008.

Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

Three Arabian airlines and a Turkish one will start operating flights to and from Romania in 2011, according to Romanian publication Capital. Qatar Airways has announced it will run four flights from Doha to Bucharest and return every week next year. Ticket prices will stay around EUR 539 and the flight will take around four hours and a half.

A series of Magyar movie screenings will take place at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, in the Horia Bernea studio, from November 14 until November 21. Entry will be free of charge and most of the movies will be subtitled in Romanian- see below complete schedule to see which one will have English subtitles.

Tire producer Pirelli, which will invest EUR 1.9 million by 2015 worldwide, will direct some of the investments in increasing tire production capacities to the new plants in Romania, Mexico and China, the company has recently announced. On the industrial segment, investments will be focused on the steelcord factory in Romania, as well as on the company's subsidiaries in China, Egypt and Russia.

Romanian state-owned drug producer Antibiotice Iasi posted a net profit of RON 21 million (EUR 4.9 million) in the first nine months of the year, up 33.9 percent on the same period of last year.

Do-it-Yourself retailer Praktiker has expended the Ploiesti store by 2,000 sqm with an investment of EUR 2.2 million, the company has announced. The store, which was opened in 2003, is now spreading over 8,270 sqm.

Florian Aldea (in picture) is the new general manager of Carpatcement Holding, replacing Mihai Rohan, who has been working with Carpatcement for the last ten years. Rohan will remain president of the Administration Board with Carpatcement Holding for the next two years, starting January 2011.

*Economic growth for 2011 is better seen after the third quarter results – in Ziarul Financiar
*Loans for individuals, the hope of banks for the fourth quarter – in Ziarul Financiar
*Mihai Rohan leaves Carpatcement – in Ziarul Financiar
*The crucial test for Schengen area: the airport check – in Ziarul Financiar
*Unhappy Volksbank customers asking bank to discontinue installments – in Ziarul Financiar

Experts from the Schengen Area evaluation committee will visit Romania from Monday to Wednesday, to assess the country's progress on air borders, after some European Union member states expressed their skepticism about Romania's capacity to join the Area in March 2011.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has offered a EUR 10 million credit line to BRD Societe Generale to finance energy efficiency projects in Romania, the bank has announced. The loan is supplementing a similar EUR 10 million credit line offered by the EBRD to BRD in 2008.

Already planning your winter holidays? Well, if you're choosing Bucharest for your stay in the month of December, we've made a list of events in the city you could try yourself - or offer as gifts to your loved ones. Stay tuned in the following days as we are preparing more goodies to help you plan for the winter season in Romania! Also, check back on this article as we'll be adding more events as they are announced.

Three Arabian airlines and a Turkish one will start operating flights to and from Romania in 2011, according to Romanian publication Capital. Qatar Airways has announced it will run four flights from Doha to Bucharest and return every week next year. Ticket prices will stay around EUR 539 and the flight will take around four hours and a half.

A series of Magyar movie screenings will take place at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, in the Horia Bernea studio, from November 14 until November 21. Entry will be free of charge and most of the movies will be subtitled in Romanian- see below complete schedule to see which one will have English subtitles.

Tire producer Pirelli, which will invest EUR 1.9 million by 2015 worldwide, will direct some of the investments in increasing tire production capacities to the new plants in Romania, Mexico and China, the company has recently announced. On the industrial segment, investments will be focused on the steelcord factory in Romania, as well as on the company's subsidiaries in China, Egypt and Russia.

Romanian state-owned drug producer Antibiotice Iasi posted a net profit of RON 21 million (EUR 4.9 million) in the first nine months of the year, up 33.9 percent on the same period of last year.

Do-it-Yourself retailer Praktiker has expended the Ploiesti store by 2,000 sqm with an investment of EUR 2.2 million, the company has announced. The store, which was opened in 2003, is now spreading over 8,270 sqm.

Florian Aldea (in picture) is the new general manager of Carpatcement Holding, replacing Mihai Rohan, who has been working with Carpatcement for the last ten years. Rohan will remain president of the Administration Board with Carpatcement Holding for the next two years, starting January 2011.