Daniel Badea

Businesses in the postal and courier sector exceeded the 4 billion lei threshold in 2018 due to the spectacular increase in product sales on the Internet, KeysFin specialists estimate in an analysis published on Monday.

The private sector in Romania contributes almost 80 percent to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) CEO Lucian Anghel told the launch on Monday of the third edition of a "Made in Romania" project.

The National Communications Administration and Regulation Authority (ANCOM) last year handed down fines worth a total of 2.43 million lei (rd 530k euro, ed. n.) to several electronic communications and postal service operators, and conducted some 4,000 checks in the sector, the communications watchdog said in release on Monday.

The mandatory private pension funds had assets worth 47.6 billion lei on 31 December 2018, increasing 19.7 percent from the level in the similar month of the previous year, according to the Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF).

Compared to the level of the assets in the previous month, of 48.18 billion lei, in December 2018 there is a decline of 1.2 percent.

The political trilogues for the proposals transposing the recommendations regarding the swordfish, as well as the measures of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean Sea (GFCM) were two of the topics tackled by the Romanian Presidency at the European Union Council in the first three weeks of tenure, a release of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) sent to AGERPR

Bucharest, Jan 19 /Agerpres/ - Romania is ready to cope with any scenario in the case of Brexit, although it would have been preferable to have an agreement to ensure the protection of the rights of all citizens of the European Union, but also for a budgetary envelope the two major European policies, cohesion and the common agricultural policy, said Rovana Plumb, Minister of European Funds, at

The decline of the national currency in relation to the euro is 0.6 percent, and only in the situation in which it declines over 4-5 percent the Central Bank analysis rigor intervenes, National Bank of Romania (BNR) strategy consultant Adrian Vasilescu maintains.

Romania will tackle of an impartial and pragmatic manner the European agenda in the digital area while holding the Presidency at the EU Council, Communication and Information Society Minister Alexandru Petrescu stated during the talks carried out on Wednesday in Bucharest with Director-General of the DG Connect within the European Commission Roberto Viola.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) updated on Monday the Code Yellow advisory of blizzard issued on Sunday and extended the number of counties to be affected by the bad weather to 27 from 12.

Moreover, the advisory for mixed precipitations and wind valid for the rest of the country was extended until Wednesday evening at 20:00hrs.

Romania is actively participating in the consolidation of the European project, by exercising the mandate of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, included, Minister of European Funds Rovana Plumb told a press conference on Tuesday.