If it was not for an unavoidable trip out of Bucharest, I would be running in the Bucharest City Marathon this year. I am 28, a light smoker who's been trying to quit since forever, I rarely exercise, I sit at my desk for hours, sometimes walk instead of taking the bus or taxi, but not as much as I would like, I eat at crazy hours.

Rompetrol Rafinare's shareholders Tuesday approved on principle the conversion into shares for the bonds the company failed to recover on account of Petromidia refinery's historic debt, the company announced.

Private clinic operator MedLife has leased an entire office building, Porumbaru Business Center, where it will relocate its head office, CB Richard Ellis Romania has announced. The building covers 1,200 sqm of office space. MedLife has also leased space in City Gate office building, where it will open a private clinic and a pharmacy, at the ground floor of the northern tower in City Gate (in picture).

*Two years from the start of the financial crisis, Romania fails to find the way out – in Ziarul Financiar
*South Pacific blocks 71-villa project – in Ziarul Financiar
*Valer Blidar will build railway wagons for the Czech Republic – in Ziarul Financiar
*Steel producer leases 4,300 sqm in A1 Business Park – in Ziarul Financiar
*OMV doubles petrol stations chain with just EUR 5 million – in Ziarul Financiar
*Exchange rate drops to RON 4.23 per EUR. Dealers blame it on 'Americans or the Central Bank' – in Gandul

The French government claims that most European Union states oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area before the monitoring mechanism is lifted, after the foreign ministers of member states on Monday recommended its extension, writes website EurActiv.com.

Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday a bill according to which accredited private pre-university education units would be financed mainly from the state and local budgets. The bill amending Education Law 84/1995 was adopted with 82 votes for, six against and four abstentions. It was adopted tacitly in the Chamber of Deputies.

Leave your car at home and walk, bike or take the public transport on September 22, which will be the 'Car free day'....

*ANAF: If Rompetrol doesn't pay the entire debt, we will resort to foreclosure - in Ziarul Financiar
*Japanese telecom giant KDDI considers investing in Romania - in Ziarul Financiar
*Most abrupt increase in unemployment since 1992 - in Ziarul Financiar
*Three Romanian castles attract fewer visitors than one German castle - in Ziarul Financiar
*10,000 people queuing up for 300 jobs - in Ziarul Financiar

The presidents of Georgia and Romania, Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the latter’s residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia’s territory, according to Itar Tass newswire.

An Emporio Armani store will open this month on Calea Victoriei, opposite two hotels in the area: Grand Hotel Continental and Novotel. Alsa Fashion Group took the franchise rights to bring the fashion brand to Romania. The 1,200 sqm store, which used to host the Phylosophy brand, will host an Armani monobrand store and an Armani Cafe coffee shop.

If it was not for an unavoidable trip out of Bucharest, I would be running in the Bucharest City Marathon this year. I am 28, a light smoker who's been trying to quit since forever, I rarely exercise, I sit at my desk for hours, sometimes walk instead of taking the bus or taxi, but not as much as I would like, I eat at crazy hours.

Rompetrol Rafinare's shareholders Tuesday approved on principle the conversion into shares for the bonds the company failed to recover on account of Petromidia refinery's historic debt, the company announced.

Private clinic operator MedLife has leased an entire office building, Porumbaru Business Center, where it will relocate its head office, CB Richard Ellis Romania has announced. The building covers 1,200 sqm of office space. MedLife has also leased space in City Gate office building, where it will open a private clinic and a pharmacy, at the ground floor of the northern tower in City Gate (in picture).

*Two years from the start of the financial crisis, Romania fails to find the way out – in Ziarul Financiar
*South Pacific blocks 71-villa project – in Ziarul Financiar
*Valer Blidar will build railway wagons for the Czech Republic – in Ziarul Financiar
*Steel producer leases 4,300 sqm in A1 Business Park – in Ziarul Financiar
*OMV doubles petrol stations chain with just EUR 5 million – in Ziarul Financiar
*Exchange rate drops to RON 4.23 per EUR. Dealers blame it on 'Americans or the Central Bank' – in Gandul

The French government claims that most European Union states oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area before the monitoring mechanism is lifted, after the foreign ministers of member states on Monday recommended its extension, writes website EurActiv.com.

Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday a bill according to which accredited private pre-university education units would be financed mainly from the state and local budgets. The bill amending Education Law 84/1995 was adopted with 82 votes for, six against and four abstentions. It was adopted tacitly in the Chamber of Deputies.

Leave your car at home and walk, bike or take the public transport on September 22, which will be the 'Car free day'....

*ANAF: If Rompetrol doesn't pay the entire debt, we will resort to foreclosure - in Ziarul Financiar
*Japanese telecom giant KDDI considers investing in Romania - in Ziarul Financiar
*Most abrupt increase in unemployment since 1992 - in Ziarul Financiar
*Three Romanian castles attract fewer visitors than one German castle - in Ziarul Financiar
*10,000 people queuing up for 300 jobs - in Ziarul Financiar

The presidents of Georgia and Romania, Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the latter’s residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia’s territory, according to Itar Tass newswire.

An Emporio Armani store will open this month on Calea Victoriei, opposite two hotels in the area: Grand Hotel Continental and Novotel. Alsa Fashion Group took the franchise rights to bring the fashion brand to Romania. The 1,200 sqm store, which used to host the Phylosophy brand, will host an Armani monobrand store and an Armani Cafe coffee shop.