Romania had 1.27 million public sector employees in November, more than the cap agreed with the International Monetary Fund, and layoffs will continue next year for the ministries of Administration and Finance, Prime Minister Emil Boc said late Tuesday. read more...

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday signed the 2011 state budget bill and social security budget bill, as well as the unitary wage and 2011 public sector wage bills into laws, the president’s office said in a statement. read more...

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday passed the law approving Government Emergency Ordinance no. 50/2010 on consumer loans. read more...

Romania’s Government Tuesday approved an emergency decree directing 60% of the money collected as healthcare contributions to local county health insurance houses and the difference will be used to cover medical services in certain counties and investments for health insurance houses. read more...

The number of Romanian taxpayer paying their income tax online has increased gradually over the past months, from 9,000 in September to over 50,000 in December, Finance Ministry state secretary Dan Lazar said Tuesday. read more...

Romanian non-government overdue loans rose 3.1% on the month to 16.4 billion lei (EUR1=RON4.2871) in November, central bank data showed Tuesday. read more...

Romania’s Government decided Tuesday to lift the exception allowing the opening of drugstores in train stations, airports and shopping centers, a procedure allowed since 2005, citing the already high number of drugstores in urban areas. read more...

Romania’s Constitutional Court Tuesday postponed for January 4 a ruling on challenges brought to the recently adopted education law for which the Government sought lawmakers' confidence vote in October. read more...

Romania's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled the 2011 state budget law constitutional. read more...

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected unconstitutionality claims raised by opposition liberals over the consumer loan law and cleared the bill the Parliament enacted last week. read more...

Romania’s Government on Tuesday decided to double the state guarantee on bank deposits as of next year, to at least EUR100,000 from the current EUR50,000, Finance Minister Gheorghe Ialomitianu said. read more...

About 30 cm of snow are covering the northern Romanian mountains on Monday evening, as it snows abundantly for several hours and visibility is lower. In northern Romania, in the Maramuresului Mt., the snow layer varies between 25 and 35 cm, the spokesperson of the Maramures County Inspectorate Border Police Radu Lungu told. Still, no accidents were registered. read more...

Siveco Romania won Diskobolos special award in the category Best ICT Accomplishments 2010, for the Romanian IT-based Education System (SEI). read more...

The Romanian Government decided in a meeting Tuesday that work contracts and payrolls will be submitted online starting next year, said Labor Minister Ioan Botis. read more...

Romania issued 3,035 buildings permits for residential projects in November, down 10.4% compared with the previous month, and 12.4% lower on the year, the statistics institute INS said Tuesday. read more...

The Romanian Constitutional Court on Tuesday will examine the notifications submitted by opposition parties, targeting the unitary wage law and the education law, for which the Government sought lawmakers’ confidence vote. read more...

Romania's Constitutional Court will debate on Tuesday the complaint formulated by 53 Liberal deputies on the law on budgetary salaries for 2011 for which the government took responsibility. read more...

The European Commission issued a favorable opinion for units 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda Nuclear Plant in accordance with article 43 of the EURATOM treaty, Economy ministry informs. EC remarked that the investment complies with objectives of the EURATOM treaty and contributes to the development of the regional energy mix. read more...

Some 45 Romanian companies in several sectors of activity will receive non-reimbursable financing worth a total 515.3 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2878) for investment projects, through the “Increase of Economic Competitiveness” sectoral operational program, the Economy Ministry said Monday. read more...

Romanian carmaker Automobile Dacia will invest more than 57 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2878) into an engine block designed for a new family of engines, with RON20 million to be provided as non-reimbursable funds. read more...