A look at global economic developments
A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: LUXEMBOURG – The 16 nations that use the euro will lay out plans to cut public spending as they try to convince jittery markets that no more countries will need bailouts and that the debt crisis can be contained. Despite […]
Romanian police bust ATM skimming factory
Romanian police have detained 20 members of a gang accused of manufacturing and selling ATM skimmers. According to local press reports, police raided 38 locations in Craiova, six in Bucharest and three in a neighbouring county. Those detained face accusations of being members of an organised crime group, unauthorised access to a computer system, possessing […]
Hungary’s shadow
COURTESY OF Budapest’s new centre-right Fidesz administration, Hungary’s large diaspora is now just that little bit more Hungarian than it was. One of the first measures of the country’s new nationalist-leaning government has been to emulate Ireland’s practice in its fourth green field, by extending to more than two million ethnic Hungarians living elsewhere in […]
Sa ne rugam pentru criminali si mincinosi!
Azi inainte de pranz aud o replica a unui membru al comunitatii iudaice care m-a amuzat teribil. Dat fiind optiunile lui politice, cum sa citeasca el in rugaciunea de luni fraza cu „sa ii ajute Dumnezeu pe conducatorii acestei tari, pe presedinte si pe intregul Guvern”? E de stiut ca, incepand cu sute si mii […]
Fiasco: No one broadcasting Macedonian Natl Team
Unprofessional and disinterested are the dozen Macedonian TV channels in broadcasting matches for their own national football team. To Macedonian TV houses, it is more important that citizens watch friendlies of Germany, Australia, England, Italy… but not Macedonia. Incredibly, for just 10,000 euros, no TV house bought the rights to broadcast Macedonia v Azerbaijan where […]
Thousands held protest rallies against the anti-crisis measures of the Romanian government
Bucharest. Thousands of people held protest rallies in several Romanian cities against the planned cuts of budget wages and pensions, Romanian agency Mediafax reported. Around 2,000 people held a rally in the centre of Brasov, where the demonstrators had clashes with the police officers, which were guarding the prefecture building. Protestors burned photographs of President […]
JBT Corporation Wins Gate Equipment Order for Major European Airport
CHICAGO, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT) today announced that its JBT AeroTech business has been awarded a contract to supply gate equipment for the Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport, in Bucharest, Romania. The contract, placed by Romairport S.R.L., a company of the Italian construction group Astaldi S.p.A., includes the supply of 9 […]
The pain in Spain
FRANCISCO GRANADOS, a conservative Spanish politician, works in a tastefully modernised palace. He is guarded at street level by men in quaint uniforms (in his case, Civil Guards in patent-leather tricorne hats) and upstairs by serried ranks of aides. His limousine waits in the square below, watched over by pigeons and the bust of a […]
Member states taken to court for breaking internal market rules
Commission takes action in cases involving taxation and public procurement. The European Commission today (3 June) decided to take six member states to court for breaking internal market rules. Its complaints against the countries mainly concern taxation and public procurement. The Commission is taking Germany, Austria and Portugal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) […]
PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN BELGRADE
In the past three days Belgrade has hosted the 35th General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), which has gathered more than 140 participants from 12 countries. After the end of the assembly Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said that the 35th General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly […]
