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Romania has sent to France and French investors a request for support for its accession to the visa-free Schengen area, which would lead to a substantial reduction in the costs on companies and citizens, Romanian Minister for Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan-Radu Oprea said Thursday.

A key supplier for Mercedes, which last year announced its investment in a headlamp factory in Bulgaria, officially opened a development center in Sofia. The subsidiary of the group was in our country - "Odelo Farba" - will work on projects for rear lights of cars in the office in the capital and the finished products will be in mass production 2 years after the initial design phase.

More than 735,000 cars were produced in Turkey in the first half of 2019, according to the state of the industry report, quoted by Econ.bg

Bucharest, July 14 /Agerpres/ - The number of used car registrations in Romania dropped by almost 7.29pct in the first half of the year to 217,701 units compared to the same period in 2018 when 234,794 units were registered, according to the statistics of the Vehicle Driving License and Registration Regime (DRPCIV), consulted by AGERPRES.

Renault's new investment projects are "an important signal of confidence in the Romanian economy," Prime Minister Viorica Dancila told the opening on Friday of new Renault offices in Bucharest. "I welcome the new investment projects of your company. They are an important signal of confidence in the Romanian economy," she said. Dancila mentioned the development of the automotive industry.

The auto market continued its upward trend in May this year, reaching 11.6pct in the first five months, compared to the same period in 2018, according to a press release issued by the Association of Car Producers and Importers (APIA) on Tuesday for AGERPRES.

The number of new and second-hand vehicle registrations in Romania reached 241,629 units in the first five months of 2019, out of which over 184,000 units were second-hand, according to the statistics with the Driving Licences and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV), researched by AGERPRES.

he management of Kragujevac-based Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Serbia has received unofficial information from Fiat's Turin headquarters that a potential FCA-Renault merger would have no substantial effect on the Serbian car factory's plan of operations until 2022, Belgrade's Vecernje novosti daily reported.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) has proposed a merger with its French rival Renault (Groupe Renault), the Italian-American carmaker announced on Monday. A similar deal could lead to the third major automaker in the world, Reuters reported on Wall Street Journal.

Used car transactions in Romania (re-registrations) had the best first quarter of the last 10 years, with an average of nearly 52,000 cars sold monthly, while the market for new cars increased by 25 percent in the first quarter as compared to the same period in 2018, reveals a specialized analysis drawn up by the representatives of an online car sales platform.