Romania
Blooming as a unique and diverse tourist destination, Romania prides itself with superb mountain scenery, historical sites, seaside resorts and towns remembering one of Dracula. Its natural diversity includes the forested Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta and the Black Sea Coast. Romania is now making new friends and managed to get in to NATO and the European Union with flying colors. The capital, Bucharest, is also known as ‘Paris of the Balkans', but it is the stunning medieval city of Sibiu in Transylvania that was crowned European Capital of Culture 2007.
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Russian natural gas giant Gazprom decreases productionGazprom will reduce the annual natural gas production in 2008 from 561 to 552-553 billion cubic meters of gas, or even lower, said a Gazprom department manager, Alexander Kalynkyn. "The decision comes after the decrease of oil and gas demand from metallurgy and cement producers", said the official.
Romania president Traian Basescu: The availability of Romania-made products is much higher than the media claims
Romania president Traian Basescu said on Friday that he kept his promise, made earlier this week - when he said he would change his German limousine for a Romania-made Dacia Logan and he would only buy Romanian products. "I bought Romanian products and it was easy to find it. It's a lie, what they say on the TV, that 80% of the products in supermarkets are foreign. Over 80% of the products are Romanian", said Basescu.
PM Tariceanu: Romanias economic growth lower in 2009, compared to 2008. 6% is the optimistic prognosis
"A strong economic recession will have a significant impact on Romania. The economic growth in 2009 will be lower than in 2008. The most optimistic prognosis is a 6% growth", said Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu on Friday, during an intervention at the Economic Studies Academy (ASE). The head of Government invited his opponents for the PM office - Democrat Liberal Teodor Stolojan and Social Democrat Mircea Geoana - to a debate in front of the ASE students, but both officials failed to show up.
Romanian central bank governor: 30,000 more unemployed would not be a problem, but the figure may be bigger
A rise of the number of Romanian unemployed by 30,000, or 0,5% of the Romanian work force, would not be a major problem in terms of unemployment at national level, but the figure may rise beyond current estimations, Romanian Central Bank (BNR) governor Mugur Isarescu said on Thursday night.
Bela Karolyi stands against accusations of abuse
Gymnastics coaching stars Bela and Martha Karoly were accused by a gymnast of abusing her while she was training in Romania about 30 years ago. But Bela Karolyi said in an interview with a Romanian newspaper that he did not feel guilt when coaching in Romania and that his attitude was more like a parent's towards the gymnasts.
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