Hospice Casa Sperantei charity hopes it will reach more than 100 runners for its team in the Bucharest City Marathon, which will take place on October 17 in the Romanian capital city. This will be the biggest team Hospice has had for the marathon, almost three times bigger than least year's.

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

The Bucharest sector 2 City Hall plans to build a cable car ('telegondola') crossing the northern Bucharest lakes and is preparing the bid to choose the company which will offer consultancy for the zonal urban planning needed for the project. The consultancy fee will reach EUR 150,000. The consultancy bid will take place on September 20.

Local independent taxi drivers will organize a protest today in Constitutiei Square in Bucharest, between 10,00 and 14,00 hours, when around 4,000 taxi drivers are expected to rally. These independent taxi drivers, who are working as self employed (PFA) will protest against the decision to pay the social contributions retroactively, for the last five years.

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.

The European Union has condemned the French government over its treatment of Roma migrants, comparing it to the Roma expulsion atrocities committed during the second world war.

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.

Gheorghe Muresan is a famous Romanian basketball player who, at 7 foot 7 inches (2.31 m), is the tallest man who ever...

*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

There is no other building in Bucharest that holds that much history within its walls (except maybe the Old Court), than the former Royal Palace does. At the beginning of the 19th century, this area, which used to belong to the Kretzulescu family, was hosting the residency built by Dinicu Golescu between 1812 and 1815.

Hospice Casa Sperantei charity hopes it will reach more than 100 runners for its team in the Bucharest City Marathon, which will take place on October 17 in the Romanian capital city. This will be the biggest team Hospice has had for the marathon, almost three times bigger than least year's.

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

The Bucharest sector 2 City Hall plans to build a cable car ('telegondola') crossing the northern Bucharest lakes and is preparing the bid to choose the company which will offer consultancy for the zonal urban planning needed for the project. The consultancy fee will reach EUR 150,000. The consultancy bid will take place on September 20.

Local independent taxi drivers will organize a protest today in Constitutiei Square in Bucharest, between 10,00 and 14,00 hours, when around 4,000 taxi drivers are expected to rally. These independent taxi drivers, who are working as self employed (PFA) will protest against the decision to pay the social contributions retroactively, for the last five years.

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.

The European Union has condemned the French government over its treatment of Roma migrants, comparing it to the Roma expulsion atrocities committed during the second world war.

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.

Gheorghe Muresan is a famous Romanian basketball player who, at 7 foot 7 inches (2.31 m), is the tallest man who ever...

*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

There is no other building in Bucharest that holds that much history within its walls (except maybe the Old Court), than the former Royal Palace does. At the beginning of the 19th century, this area, which used to belong to the Kretzulescu family, was hosting the residency built by Dinicu Golescu between 1812 and 1815.