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NRCC Elects new Board of Directors 2019 - Mr Isfahan Doekhie Owner BLISS imobiliare elected for the tenth year!

7 March 2019 • News

The Netherlands Romanian Chamber of Commerce has elected yesterday the new Board of Directors 2019, Congratulations to the 4 newly elected Board Members: We look forward to new beginnings and adventures!

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Middle East investors looking for agri investments Black Sea region

30 January 2019 • Investments

Our company has been approached by 2 Middle Eastern investment groups interested to acquire/participate in agricultural business in the Black Sea region.

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Underground Subway Metro Map Bucharest Romania

25 January 2019 • Resources

The Bucharest Metro (Romanian: Metroul București) is an underground rapid transit system that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. It first opened for service on 19 November 1979. The network is run by Metrorex. One of two parts of the larger Bucharest public transport network, Metrorex has an average of approximately 500,000 passenger trips per weekday, compared to the 2,650,000 daily riders on Bucharest's RATB transit system. In total, the Metrorex system is 71.35 kilometres (44.3 mi) long and has 47 stations

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Romania celebrates 100 years since the Great Unification

29 November 2018 • News

In 2018 Romania celebrates 100 years since the Great Unification. 1918. It is the year with the most anniversaries of events from Romania’s multi-millennia history. The Great Unification in 1918 resulted in all the historical provinces inhabited by Romanians to get together, within one single country, Romania.

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The Villa of the poet Octavian Goga, arch. Horia Creangă

7 November 2018 • Article

Designed by the pioneer of modern Romanian architecture, at the command of the Interwar Romania's last Prime Minister, the Octavian Goga Villa is one of the iconic houses in Bucharest. Named after its first owner, the great poet and Transylvanian politician, the villa was built between 1936 and 1938.

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Mazars short guide of moving to Romania: Tax perspective

7 November 2018 • Article

Given the membership to the European Union, Romania has a fully integrated employment market within the Single EU market and, as such, citizens of EU countries can freely come to Romania, reside here and perform activities, either as freelancers or employees of Romanian employers, as well as non-resident employers.

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US company opens cyber research & development center in Romania

1 November 2018 • Article

New-York based analytics company Verint Systems announced on Wednesday, October 31, the opening of a Cyber Intelligence Research and Development center in Romania. The new R&D center will be located in the Astoria Business Center in Bucharest, and Verint expects to hire dozens of employees over the course of 2018 and 2019.

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Romania’s budget deficit in first nine months, more than double compared to last year

31 October 2018 • Article

Romania recorded a consolidated budget deficit of RON 16.8 billion (EUR 3.6 billion) in the first nine months of this year, representing 1.77% of the estimated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2018. The deficit was 2.5 times higher in nominal terms and 2.2 times higher as a percentage of GDP compared to the same period of 2017, according to data from the Finance Ministry.

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Prepping your home to MAXIMIZE photo potential

25 October 2018 • Resources

Online It's where buyers start. The majority of home buyers start their search online, so it is important to make the first impression count! Follow these tips to prepare your home for the best real estate photos possible.

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Fiscul schimbă procedura privind contractele de chirie ale persoanelor fizice

24 October 2018 • Article

Fiscul pregătește modificări în ce privește procedura de înregistrare a contractelor de chirie, după ce o ordonanță din luna martie a Guvernului a eliminat obligația ca aceste acte să fie înscrise în cazul persoanelor fizice. Înregistrarea este, însă, o condiție legală pentru ca respectivul contract să aibă titlu executoriu, iar modificările procedurale vizate acum de ANAF vor acorda posibilitatea de a înregistra documentele persoanelor care doresc să aibă un astfel de contract executoriu

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GEFF - Romania Green Economy FF

4 October 2018 • News

Establishment of a Green Economy Financing Facility ("GEFF", the "Facility") in Romania to provide existing and new private Participating Financial Institutions ("PFIs") with credit resources in combination with comprehensive Technical Cooperation ("TC") packages.

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Romanian Labor Law for Expat Employees

29 September 2018 • Uncategorized

Both foreign employers and employees in Romania often have to deal with complex employment issues which can become far more adventurous than expected due to the Romanian legal culture relating to employment. Below are some insights on what aspects foreign employers and employees should take into consideration when dealing with labor law issues in Romania.

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Drumul Taberei: Utopia Interrupted. What happened to the ideal Modernist city on the edge of Bucharest

19 September 2018 • News

With the air rank with dust, thick with exhaust and deafened by the burr of drills and car-horns, Bucharest’s western district of Drumul Taberei is a typical zone of the Romanian capital, with its monotonous slabs of concrete, anarchic parking and war on free space. Where once there was Communist centrally-planned housing, lawns and open land, now there are new churches and supermarkets, while patches of grass between the blocks are gated off by the authorities, and littered with trash. Public space is no more than corridors that thread around cars, fences and building sites.

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Genesis Property opens first outdoor pool in an office park

21 September 2018 • News

West Gate office park, owned by Genesis Property, inaugurated the first outdoor pool with runway and rollerblading in Romania, located in an office park, following an EUR 1.5 million investment. The project is not a commercial investment, but an experience mainly offered to tenant employees that the real estate developer owns in the western part of the capital. The swimming pool and terrace set within the park stretch over an area of ​​5,000 square meters.

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GERMAN RETAILER KIK OPENS ITS FIRST UNIT IN ROMANIA AT PRIMA SHOPS ORADEA

19 September 2018 • News

Kik, one of the most dynamic German fashion brands, opens its first shop in Romania at Prima Shops Oradea, the project developed by Oasis Retail Development & Consulting. Kik will open here a 600 sq m unit at the end of September.Prima Shops strip mall opened nearly a year and a half ago in Oradea and reported some 4 million visits ever since. The project is 100% leased. This August, another international fashion retailer, C&A opened a 1,100 sqm store within the project.

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Architects of the Extreme How the planning of Communist blocks in Bucharest changed from a western vision of functional housing to a sabotage of the city

13 September 2018 • News

To an outsider, Bucharest is a sea of uniform blocks that hustle and crush a pre-World War II city - a totalitarian nightmare encroaching on a low-level European town of rusting roofs, cracking walls and crumbling plaster. But the Romanian capital has lived through different ages of development since the Communists seized control in 1946. What started as a western-inspired Modernist vision, fuelled by the enthusiasm of young architects, changed to a cataclysmic raid on the urban environment, leaving the city fractured and traumatised. After a Revolution in 1989 kicked out the Communist regime, the city has operated only as a caretaker to its stockpile of concrete hulks, and has failed to draw up a consistent plan for urban development.

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BETA Competition 2018

4 September 2018 • News

The BETA competition is one of the main events with an euroregional opening (RO, HU, SRB) from the Timișoara architecture biennial BETA, organized by the Romanian Order of Architects – Timiș Territorial Branch.The BETA competition and its related exhibition supports and promotes quality architecture in all its forms and manifestations, being conceived as a relational interface both within the profession and between the profession and the socio-cultural environment in which it operates.

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How Romanian tourists have changed over the past 21 years: from jars with food to all-inclusive

17 August 2018 • News

The behavior of Romanian tourists over the last two decades has changed drastically: if 21 years ago, the Romanians were leaving by coaches, sleeping in cheap hotels and taking junk luggage, they are now looking for all inclusive holidays in 4 and 5-star hotels and destinations around the world: from Turkey, to China and Thailand, to Cuba or the Dominican Republic, according to a Christian Tour analysis.

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How to live like a Local in Bucharest

10 August 2018 • News

Lonely Planet Local Monica Suma recently moved back to her native Bucharest after 12 years abroad. Drawn by the urban revival and cultural effervescence, this former New Yorker enjoys strolling through the back alleys of interwar Bucharest, searching for the hidden haunts, delicious eats and ever-present festivals.

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Where to Invest in Property Across Europe in 2018

9 August 2018 • Real estate

According to PwC and Urban Land Institute (ULI), a Washington-based Research NFP Centre, the European Property Market continues to ride the swell on the back of a robust performance from the previous financial year. The recent survey conducted by (PwC and ULI, ‘Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2018’ has analyzed markets in 31 European cities and 23 real estate sectors for their investment and development potential. With a focus on high quality assets across all major European markets, investors have shown an appetite for risk to achieve the targeted returns.

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World Experience Festival in Bucharest brings together embassies, cultural institutes this fall

8 August 2018 • News

World Experience Festival, the fourth edition of the Embassies’ Festival, will bring together 70 embassies, cultural institutes, international organizations, ethnic communities and national minorities, as well as more than 80 artists from around the world this fall.

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