Citroen Romania has launched C-Zero, an electric car model, on the Romanian market. The model is priced at EUR 36,600. This is the first electric car officially available in Romania and will be in stock in the following weeks. C-Zero will be sold in its top version, High Line, which includes MP3 radio CD, computer, ESP, USB port, blue tooth, among others.

Romania was the country the most affected by the crisis last year, with the pessimism of local consumers placing it on the last spot in Europe in a recent GfK study on consumption in 2010.

About 30 border police and customs workers have been detained Tuesday morning and taken in for questioning after a massive sting operation by anticorruption authorities that involved five customs points in western Romania, people close to the investigation told Mediafax newswire.

The restructuring of Romania's mining sector will continue until 2018 and no mines will be closed during this interval...

About 35 percent of Romanians polled by website ivox.ro said they can spend EUR 300 to EUR 500 this year on holidays, while 19.37 percent said their 2011 holiday budget ranges between EUR 500 and EUR 1,000.

Vulcan mountain resort in Romania, one of the newest such resorts in the country, has received a new cable car, part of a larger ski resort development program financed by the Tourism Ministry and the local city council. The cable car was however stuck during the inauguration ceremony last week-end, due to a broken sensor.

Romania’s Government will transfer a railway sector supervision body to the Competition Council from the Transport Ministry to avoid an infringement procedure from the European Union.

Five Romanian senators have drafted a bill requiring psychological and psychiatric examinations of all candidates for public office, including presidential candidates. The bill would also oblige people holding public office to undergo annual medical check-ups in order to keep their positions.

Romanian President Traian Basescu ha said Romania will not ask to be considered for Schengen separately from Bulgaria, even though reports show Romania has met all technical criteria and Bulgaria hasn’t. "We do not want a split from Bulgaria and we will not seek one," said Basescu after a European Council meeting in Brussels. He added political games to have Romania considered separately would not do anyone any good.

The five miners missing in the Saturday afternoon explosion at the Uricani mine, southern Romania, have been killed in the blast, said local mayor Danut Buhaescu. He added rescuers were struggling to bring out the bodies, which have been dismembered in the powerful blast. The five were electricians and were apparently servicing an electric transformer when the explosion occurred.

Citroen Romania has launched C-Zero, an electric car model, on the Romanian market. The model is priced at EUR 36,600. This is the first electric car officially available in Romania and will be in stock in the following weeks. C-Zero will be sold in its top version, High Line, which includes MP3 radio CD, computer, ESP, USB port, blue tooth, among others.

Romania was the country the most affected by the crisis last year, with the pessimism of local consumers placing it on the last spot in Europe in a recent GfK study on consumption in 2010.

About 30 border police and customs workers have been detained Tuesday morning and taken in for questioning after a massive sting operation by anticorruption authorities that involved five customs points in western Romania, people close to the investigation told Mediafax newswire.

The restructuring of Romania's mining sector will continue until 2018 and no mines will be closed during this interval...

About 35 percent of Romanians polled by website ivox.ro said they can spend EUR 300 to EUR 500 this year on holidays, while 19.37 percent said their 2011 holiday budget ranges between EUR 500 and EUR 1,000.

Vulcan mountain resort in Romania, one of the newest such resorts in the country, has received a new cable car, part of a larger ski resort development program financed by the Tourism Ministry and the local city council. The cable car was however stuck during the inauguration ceremony last week-end, due to a broken sensor.

Romania’s Government will transfer a railway sector supervision body to the Competition Council from the Transport Ministry to avoid an infringement procedure from the European Union.

Five Romanian senators have drafted a bill requiring psychological and psychiatric examinations of all candidates for public office, including presidential candidates. The bill would also oblige people holding public office to undergo annual medical check-ups in order to keep their positions.

Romanian President Traian Basescu ha said Romania will not ask to be considered for Schengen separately from Bulgaria, even though reports show Romania has met all technical criteria and Bulgaria hasn’t. "We do not want a split from Bulgaria and we will not seek one," said Basescu after a European Council meeting in Brussels. He added political games to have Romania considered separately would not do anyone any good.

The five miners missing in the Saturday afternoon explosion at the Uricani mine, southern Romania, have been killed in the blast, said local mayor Danut Buhaescu. He added rescuers were struggling to bring out the bodies, which have been dismembered in the powerful blast. The five were electricians and were apparently servicing an electric transformer when the explosion occurred.