The annual inflation rate in the Eurozone has remained stable in August compared to July, at 0.2%, according to a preliminary estimate published on Wednesday by the European Statistics Office (Eurostat). read more...

The unemployment rate in Germany has fallen to a new all-time low in January, as the number of jobseekers fell more than expected, according to data published yesterday by the Federal Labor Office in Berlin. The official figures show that the unemployment rate in Germany fell to 6.2% last month, down from 6.3% in December. read more...

here are 287,000 Romanian citizens who are living and working in Germany, thus contributing to the value added of Germany’s economy, and in this context, Romania and Germany will sign a memorandum of understanding on supporting the youth, the vulnerable groups and the elderly, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly, Rovana Plumb said on Thursday after meeting her German counterpart Andrea Nahles. read more...

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday called on privately owned companies in Romania to enter partnerships with the Romanian educational system, underscoring that Romania’s vocational training has been restarted by modifying the relevant legislation. read more...

Romania needs to continue to have flexible labor markets, that will facilitate the transition from jobs with low productivity to some with high productivity and that will lead to increase labor force qualification, said President of the Bank World Jim Yong Kim, at the end of the meeting with Prime Minister Victor Ponta, at the Victoria Palace. read more...

The Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest this week marks a century of existence. read more...

Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea, Minister of Public Administration said that the serious restructuring process started in the central administration might bring about some staff cuts in the ministries, as well. read more...

Speaker of Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea said on Thursday that Romania’s representatives make lobby in the UK so as to persuade the British leaders and MPs to lift the labour restrictions for Romanians by the end of next year at the latest. read more...

Differentiated baccalaureate is a rational solution, which I welcome, said former Minister of Education Andrei Marga. read more...

The Romanian joblessness rate, seasonally adjusted according to the International Labour Office (ILO) standards was put at 7 percent in July, down 0.3 percentage points from the prior month and by 0.5 percent less than in July 2011, the National Institute for Statistics said in a release. read more...

The Bologna Process has kept its initial political boost as well as a high institutional and systemic commitment of the academics and the students alike, Romania’s Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sports Catalin Baba told a meeting of the Bologna Conference in Bucharest on Thursday. read more...

Romanian unemployment rate inched up to 4.93% in October, from 4.89% a month earlier, the country’s employment agency ANOFM said Tuesday. read more...

The United Kingdom's Migration Advisory Committee recommends maintaining restrictions on the access of Bulgarian and Romanian nationals to employment, as lifting them would have a negative impact on the British labor market. read more...

Romania's Government has pushed the deadline by which companies may register or update the data in the General Registry of Employees (REVISAL) to December 15, 2011. read more...

Romania's unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.3% in August, seasonally adjusted data from the statistics institute INS showed Friday. read more...

The jobless rate in Romania has slightly increased to 4.83%, but it should not exceed 5% this year, Silviu Bian, president of the National Employment Agency (ANOFM), said Tuesday. read more...

Nearly one million new work contracts have been registered in Romania since the new Labor Code took effect, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Saturday at the summer school of his ruling Democratic Liberal Party’s youth organization. read more...

A number of 62,348 candidates yesterday took the first written test of the second session of the baccalaureate examination this year. The test subjects were sent under proper security measures to all the examination centres nationwide, and the test started at 9.00 am as scheduled. No fewer than 164 candidates were eliminated from the examination for fraud or attempt to fraud, HotNews.ro quoted Education Ministry sources as saying. Fifteen candidates were expelled from the examination in Bucharest alone, according to centralized data by 11.30 am from the School Inspectorate. They were kicked out of the test for fraud or use of electronic devices, according to Bucharest General School Inspector Cristian Alexandrescu. read more...

Romania's Government will extend the deadline by which it must provide at least 6% of the GDP to the education system by two years, until 2014, arguing that it would entail an additional budgetary burden of more than 46 billion lei (over EUR10 billion) in 2012 and 2013. read more...

Romanian public sector employees will receive no vacation, gift or meal vouchers until 2014, no bonuses until 2013 and will be rewarded for overtime with free hours only, according to the Government's fiscal-budgetary strategy for 2012-2014. read more...