Development Ministry

All the commitments of the Romanian government under the country's bid to host matches of the UEFA EURO 2020 European Football Championship are 95 percent met, retired footballer Gica Popescu, honorary adviser to the prime minister, said on Wednesday.

A new bill on strategic investment incentives tabled on Monday by the Economy and Development Ministry provides for tax exemptions and fixed tax status, as well as the favorable taxation of foreign officials involved in major investments in Greece.

Premier Viorica Dancila on Thursday sent President Klaus Iohannis a letter reiterating the request for the head of the state to sign the decrees appointing Lia Olguta Vasilescu to Deputy PM and Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration, and Mircea Draghici to Minister of Transport.

Twice as many businesses opened this year as those that shut down, according to the country's General Commercial Registry (GEMI) - the first time this has happened since 2012 when the country's financial crisis peaked.

The Economy and Development Ministry is planning to introduce a fast-track process exclusively for investments in the industrial sector.

A familiar portrait of Che Guevara hangs next to a starfish-shaped clock and a map of Greece on a Development Ministry wall, while an aquarium sets the tone in a waiting area at the National Crime Service's Fraud Department.

Police on May 24 detained 39 municipality staff working for local governments in Ankara over their alleged use of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application linked to the Gülen movement, which is accused of perpetrating the July 2016 coup attempt.    

Earlier, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had issued detention warrants for a total of 79 municipality staff.

We applauded Turkish scientist Bilge Demirköz at the cosmetic giant L'Oreal and UNESCO's "For Women in Science" award ceremony this year.   

The Economy and Development Ministry is about to start examining how it could expand the program which offers visas to non-European Union citizens to more investment categories besides properties in an attempt to improve the existing framework.

A ceramic sculpture, which is said to be the biggest one in the history of Turkish underwater history, has been discovered off the coast of the Bozburun neighborhood in the western province of Muğla's Marmaris district.
 
The 2,700-year-old sculpture found during examinations in a ship wreckage, which was unearthed last year in November, belonged to a Cypriot goddess.