Monday headlines: Patriciu invests EUR 100 mln in Mic.ro mobile network, lower rent budget for expats, Barasab passage, 95% finalized

Romanian media

National Bank officials about the possibility to exit crisis: the budget adjustment is just the start of reforms – in Ziarul Financiar Patriciu wants to invest EUR 100 million in putting Mic.ro on wheels – in Ziarul Financiar Astra profit grows four times in nine months to EUR 4.3 million – in Ziarul Financiar Ardaf won EUR 2.6 million but its business dropped 23 percent – in Ziarul Financiar BCR Life Insurance sees business up 37 percent – in Ziarul Financiar Only 100 co-financing loans from Banca Transilvania in nine months – in Ziarul Financiar Mechel grows Lamoniroul Braila business ten times in nine months, to EUR 73 million – in Ziarul Financiar Expats' rent budget, limited by companies to EUR 1,600 a month – in Gandul Winter holiday, 20 percent cheaper. Hotel owners extend the super offer period – in Gandul EIB will finance by EUR 600 million modernizing roads in Romania, says Transport Minister – in Adevarul Alumil profit, down 78 percent – on Dailybusiness.ro Basarab passage, 95 percent finalized – on Dailybusiness.ro Four airlines want to open new routes to Bucharest in 2011: Quatar Airways, Pegasus Airlines, Emirates, Wataniya Airways– on Dailybusiness.ro Economy drops 0.7 percent in the third quarter – on Wall-street.ro Impact developer: EUR 1.5 million loss after nine months – on Wall-street.ro Patriciu: Crisis in Romania is merely at the beginning – on Wall-street.ro Emil Boc inaugurates 10 more kilometers of Transylvania Highway – on Wall-street.ro Brazidecraciun.ro bets on EUR 125,000 in business this year – on Wall-street.ro

International media

Japan’s economy grows as stimulus spurs spending- in FT Troubled California begins $14bn bond sale- in FT Gazprom expansion fuels hiring spree- in FT Five Canadians, two Mexicans dead in Cancun resort explosion- on Reuters Ireland Talks With EU as Germany Pushes It to Take Bailout- on Bloomberg