*Two years from the start of the financial crisis, Romania fails to find the way out – in Ziarul Financiar
*South Pacific blocks 71-villa project – in Ziarul Financiar
*Valer Blidar will build railway wagons for the Czech Republic – in Ziarul Financiar
*Steel producer leases 4,300 sqm in A1 Business Park – in Ziarul Financiar
*OMV doubles petrol stations chain with just EUR 5 million – in Ziarul Financiar
*Exchange rate drops to RON 4.23 per EUR. Dealers blame it on 'Americans or the Central Bank' – in Gandul

There is no other building in Bucharest that holds that much history within its walls (except maybe the Old Court), than the former Royal Palace does. At the beginning of the 19th century, this area, which used to belong to the Kretzulescu family, was hosting the residency built by Dinicu Golescu between 1812 and 1815.

Real estate investment company Valad Europe has leased 4,300 sqm of warehouse and office space at the A1 Business Park in Bucharest to Valsider Production, a sister company of the Italian steel giant, Cordioli. The value of the four-year lease is of EUR 800,000, the company has said.

Total hourly labor costs in the Romanian economy rose 5 percent on the year in April to June, the second-biggest increase in the European Union, official data showed Tuesday.

Around 50 French companies are currently looking at the Romanian market and plan to start investing locally in areas like medicine, energy and environment and some of them could turn these plans into reality on the medium term, according to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Romania (CCIFER).

Romanian public servants will go on general strike indefinitely starting Monday, September 27, said Sebastian Oprescu, head of the National Union of Public Servants (SNFP), adding public servants are starving and are heavily indebted.

The recent discovery of a new species of dinosaurs in Alba county in Romania soon triggered the idea of a dinosaur museum in the Western Romanian city of Cluj - Napoca. Matei Vremir (Vremir Matyas), the Cluj – Napoca based paleontologist who discovered the stocky dragon skeleton in Alba county, has already been contacted by several museums in the world, among which the Natural History Museum in New York, interested in receiving copies of the skeleton discovered by the Romanian

An Emporio Armani store will open this month on Calea Victoriei, opposite two hotels in the area: Grand Hotel Continental and Novotel. Alsa Fashion Group took the franchise rights to bring the fashion brand to Romania. The 1,200 sqm store, which used to host the Phylosophy brand, will host an Armani monobrand store and an Armani Cafe coffee shop.

The presidents of Georgia and Romania, Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the latter’s residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia’s territory, according to Itar Tass newswire.

French retailer Auchan will open a store in Iasi, within the Palas real estate project in the Moldavian city. The retailer and Iulius Group, the developer will hold a joint press conference announcing the opening on Thursday, September 16.

*Two years from the start of the financial crisis, Romania fails to find the way out – in Ziarul Financiar
*South Pacific blocks 71-villa project – in Ziarul Financiar
*Valer Blidar will build railway wagons for the Czech Republic – in Ziarul Financiar
*Steel producer leases 4,300 sqm in A1 Business Park – in Ziarul Financiar
*OMV doubles petrol stations chain with just EUR 5 million – in Ziarul Financiar
*Exchange rate drops to RON 4.23 per EUR. Dealers blame it on 'Americans or the Central Bank' – in Gandul

There is no other building in Bucharest that holds that much history within its walls (except maybe the Old Court), than the former Royal Palace does. At the beginning of the 19th century, this area, which used to belong to the Kretzulescu family, was hosting the residency built by Dinicu Golescu between 1812 and 1815.

Real estate investment company Valad Europe has leased 4,300 sqm of warehouse and office space at the A1 Business Park in Bucharest to Valsider Production, a sister company of the Italian steel giant, Cordioli. The value of the four-year lease is of EUR 800,000, the company has said.

Total hourly labor costs in the Romanian economy rose 5 percent on the year in April to June, the second-biggest increase in the European Union, official data showed Tuesday.

Around 50 French companies are currently looking at the Romanian market and plan to start investing locally in areas like medicine, energy and environment and some of them could turn these plans into reality on the medium term, according to the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Romania (CCIFER).

Romanian public servants will go on general strike indefinitely starting Monday, September 27, said Sebastian Oprescu, head of the National Union of Public Servants (SNFP), adding public servants are starving and are heavily indebted.

The recent discovery of a new species of dinosaurs in Alba county in Romania soon triggered the idea of a dinosaur museum in the Western Romanian city of Cluj - Napoca. Matei Vremir (Vremir Matyas), the Cluj – Napoca based paleontologist who discovered the stocky dragon skeleton in Alba county, has already been contacted by several museums in the world, among which the Natural History Museum in New York, interested in receiving copies of the skeleton discovered by the Romanian

An Emporio Armani store will open this month on Calea Victoriei, opposite two hotels in the area: Grand Hotel Continental and Novotel. Alsa Fashion Group took the franchise rights to bring the fashion brand to Romania. The 1,200 sqm store, which used to host the Phylosophy brand, will host an Armani monobrand store and an Armani Cafe coffee shop.

The presidents of Georgia and Romania, Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the latter’s residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia’s territory, according to Itar Tass newswire.

French retailer Auchan will open a store in Iasi, within the Palas real estate project in the Moldavian city. The retailer and Iulius Group, the developer will hold a joint press conference announcing the opening on Thursday, September 16.