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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Senate Adopts Bill Reducing Flat Tax At 10%]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_53652/romanian-senate-adopts-bill-reducing-flat-tax-at-10.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romania&rsquo;s Senate adopted on Tuesday a draft law drawn up by ruling democrat liberals, which reduces the flat tax to 10%, from 16%. The result of the vote was 45 votes &ldquo;for&rdquo; 31 &ldquo;against&rdquo; and eight...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:04:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Pension Bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_51299/romanias-constitutional-court-postpones-ruling-on-pension-bill-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The decision regarding a law reforming the country&rsquo;s pension system has been postponed for next week by Romania&rsquo;s Constitutional Court. The opposition Social Democratic and Liberal parties have called on the Constitutional Court...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:01:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Pension Bill Will Not Go to the Vote Again]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_50932/the-pension-bill-will-not-go-to-the-vote-again.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romania&rsquo;s Chamber of Deputies rejected today the Standing Bureau&rsquo;s proposition to put the pension bill to the vote again, amid fraud allegations raised by the opposition. The vote was rejected with 158 votes for not repeating the...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:16:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romania’s Chamber of Deputies Adopts National Integrity Agency Bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_49360/romanias-chamber-of-deputies-adopts-national-integrity-agency-bill.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romania&rsquo;s Chamber of Deputies adopted on Monday the draft law on the National Integrity Agency (ANI), in spite of opposition social democrats refusal to participate in the procedings. The bill was adopted with 204 votes...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:00:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romania Should Reconsider Euro Adoption Calendar]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_49104/romania-should-reconsider-euro-adoption-calendar.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to Romanian President Traian Basescu, authorities should rethink the country&rsquo;s euro adoption calendar, beacause Romania has not yet resolved its structural deficits problem.
&nbsp;
Basescu said that...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Social Democrats Will Submit a No-Confidence Motion to the Parliament on 17th of May]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_44325/romanian-social-democrats-will-submit-a-no-confidence-motion-to-the-parliament-on-17th-of-may.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to social democrat senator Lia Olguta Vasilescu, the social democrats have completed a noconfidence motion against Emil Boc&rsquo;s Government, which they will submit to Parliament on May 17. The document criticizes the current...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:05:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ex EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban, Appointed Presidential Adviser]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_41118/ex-eu-commissioner-for-multilingualism-leonard-orban-appointed-presidential-adviser.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romanian former EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban was appointed presidential adviser for European affairs, according to a press release from President Traian Basescu&rsquo;s office. Ludovic Orban served as European...]]></description>
<category>Politics</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:55:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Conservative Party Has A New President]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_40757/romanian-conservative-party-has-a-new-president.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party Congress has elected a new president, Daniel Constantin, who competed with Petre Marginean in the internal elections held Sunday. Constantin got 975 votes, while Marginean secured 398 of the votes. The winner is a...]]></description>
<category>Politics</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:02:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Substantial Reduction of Social Security Contribution, Approved by the Lawmakers]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_37952/substantial-reduction-of-social-security-contribution-approved-by-romanian-lawmakers.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the amendments to the social security budget for 2010 approved today by Romanian parliament commissions for labor and health states that employees&rsquo; and employers&rsquo; social security contributions will be reduced, although the...]]></description>
<category>Politics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:29:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romania’s Electoral Authority Final Null Vote Recount: 2,247 Valid Ballots]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_37202/romanias-central-electoral-bureau-final-null-vote-recount-1260-valid-ballots-for-basescu-987-for-geoana.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[After reexamining and recounting all the voided ballots in Romania&rsquo;s presidential election held last Sunday, the Central Electoral Bureau found 2,247 valid ballots amongst the 137.476 votes that were declare null. Therefore, 1,260 were...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:53:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Social Democrats Claim Election Outcome Was Rigged]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_36805/romanian-social-democrats-claim-election-outcome-was-rigged.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Social Democratic Party, whose presidential candidate Mircea Geoana was leading in exit-polls after Sunday's presidential election, announced will contest the outcome at the Constitutional Court, claiming the election was rigged....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:19:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Presidential Election Results: Basescu - 50.33%, Geoana - 49.66%]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_36804/presidential-election-results-basescu---50-33-geoana---49-66.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The final preliminary results of the second round of the presidential elections in Romania were presented today by Central Electoral Bureau, after counts in all polling stations. According to these, the incumbent president Traian Basescu...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:18:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Presidential Election Final Results: Basescu – 32.44%, Geoana – 31.15%]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_36338/presidential-election-final-results-basescu-%E2%80%93-32-44-geoana-%E2%80%93-31-15.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romania&rsquo;s curent president, Traian Basescu, won the first round of the presidential elections held on Sunday. He obtained 32.44% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.15%, according to final results released...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:41:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Referendum Prelim Results: 77.78% For Single-Chamber Parliament]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_36268/romanian-referendum-prelim-results-77-78-for-single-chamber-parliament.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[At the Romanian referendum organized Sunday, 50.91% of the citizens eligible to vote came to express their opinion. &nbsp;77.78% of the voters supported a single-chamber Parliament, and 88.4% supported downsizing the Parliament to a maximum...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:54:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Presidential Election Prelim Results: Basescu - 32.42%, Geoana - 31.17%]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_36265/romanian-presidential-election-prelim-results-basescu---32-42-geoana---31-17.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[After counting the votes from 99.92% of the poling stations, the Central Electoral Bureau announced, today, that Romania&rsquo;s incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 32.42% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:11:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[250 MPs Voted Against Croitoru Government]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_35305/250-mps-voted-against-croitoru-government-.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Romania&rsquo;s Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru lost a confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday for his proposed government. The result of the vote was 250 &ldquo;against&rdquo;, 189 &ldquo;for&rdquo;. The government needed 236...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposed Transport Minister, Rejected by the Parliament Committees]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_34994/proposed-transport-minister-rejected-by-the-parliament-committees.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Radu Berceanu, the proposed Transport and Communications Minister, was rejected by the Romanian Parliament committees 42 to 33 votes.
&nbsp;
Berceanu, a democrat liberal, is currently transport minister and interim...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:43:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romania has three executives but not a functional government]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_34479/romania-has-three-executives-but-not-a-functional-government.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been seven days since Romania decommissioned the government, and the current situation could drag on until after the presidential elections.

The business environment warns about the dangers of this strategy and...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:21:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Romanian Parliament removed the government from power]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_34199/the-romanian-parliament-removed-the-government-from-power.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Romanian government was unseated by the Parliament yesterday, but the current prime-minister can still perform his duties for 45 days, as an acting prime-minister. During this time he will only sign the necessary documents to administer...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:28:00</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In four months, the Romanian government has to cut its spending by 1 billion Euros]]></title>
<link>http://www.fin.rohttp://en.fin.ro/articol_30809/in-four-months-the-romanian-government-has-to-cut-its-spending-by-1-billion-euros.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Romanian Prime-minister Emil Boc announced a 2% increment of the pension point and free of tax reinvested profit, starting October 1st. It has also announced it will drop the minimum tax, at least partially, starting January...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:15:00</pubDate>
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