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Just 2 percent of the Romanians dine out on a daily basis, whereas most of them, specifically some 20 percent, eat ready meals once to three times a week, found a recent GfK Romania survey on the out of home eating habits.

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The account deficit in Romania's balance of payments closed 2014 on 696 million euros, compared with 1,168 million euros in the same year-ago period, amid the widening of the services surplus (by 1,169 million euros) and the narrowing of the primary income balance deficit (by 242 million euros), according to data released on Friday by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).

Former transport minister Miron Mitrea was sentenced to a two-year prison term without suspension, in a definitive sentence of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ, Romania's Supreme Court).

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CFR Calatori, Romania's national passenger railway carrier, is selling train tickets with a 50-per cent discount for journeys that start in Bucharest and end in Prahova Valley or Constanta, on Valentine's Day and Dragobete (traditional Romanian love celebration - February 24), CFR Calatori reported on Wednesday.

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The ceremony for the departure on a new mission in Afghanistan of the servicemen of 33rd "Posada" Mountain Huntsmen Battalion will take place on February 13, on the plateau near the Princely Church in Curtea de Arges Municipality, military unit representatives announced on Wednesday.

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The Ministry of Public Finance (MFP) borrowed 600 million lei from commercial banks on Thursday, at an average yield of 1.99 percent, in a tender of 52-month Government bonds; it was the lowest yield ever obtained by the Romanian state for titles denominated in the national currency.

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The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) does not opine on the statements of some suspects under criminal prosecution, so much the more on the situation of some criminal cases the initiation and instrumentation of which it has substantially contributed to, SRI Spokesman Sorin Sava told AGERPRES on Friday.

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AGERPRES special correspondent, Oana Ghita, transmits: The Bocuse d'Or Director, Florent Suplisson told AGERPRES that the second prize for the United States of America that podiums as a first, shows that the Bocuse d'Or 'exists to put into light all the countries whose culinary cultures are progressing, are affirming.'

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AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: Silver is a fine prize for Team USA at the Bocuse d'Or culinary contest, Jerome Bocuse - the president of the Sirha World Hospitality and Food Service and a founding member of Bocuse d'Or, alongside his father Paul Bocuse - told AGERPRES.

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'Calatoria lui Gruber' (Gruber's Journey), a film directed by Radu Gabrea opened the first edition of the Holocaust Film Festival at the Museum of Romanian Peasant (MTR) on Tuesday night.

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