COMPANIES Romania boasts 105 companies
\nin the Fortune Global 500 (an annual ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide
\nas measured by revenue) present in Central and Eastern Europe, reads a
\ncommuniqu\u00e9 by Colliers International Group Inc. published by Romanian news
\nagency AGERPRES. The first places are occupied by Poland and the Czech Republic
\nwith 139 and 111 companies respectively, while Slovakia and Bulgaria are on the
\nlast positions with 60 companies. Numerous companies from this region of Europe
\nlisted in Fortune Global 500 are active in the automotive industry, the sectors
\nof food, beverages and tobacco, telecommunications and media as well as
\ntransports. Romania is following the region’s trend with most of the companies active
\nin the car-making sector, with producers of food, beverages, tobacco and technology
\ncoming next. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
VOTING The Romanian government has today approved an emergency ordinance draft
\ntabled by the Permanent Election Authority under which the registration term
\nfor the Romanian citizens living abroad as voters has been extended until
\nSunday, September 15th. Under the previous legislation, the term was
\nWednesday, September 11th for all the Romanians abroad willing to
\ncast their ballot in the presidential election of November 10th and
\n24th. 34,600 applications have so far been received for polling
\nstations whereas 36,500 people have applied for postal voting. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
VOLLEYBALL Romania’s volleyball side is
\nin Montpellier to take on the national side of France in their first group A
\ngame for the European Championship. The group also includes Bulgaria, Greece,
\nPortugal and Italy. Romania’s first participation in a European Championship was
\nback in 1995. The present edition, due to end on September 29th is
\nbeing held in France, Belgium the Netherlands and Slovenia. The Romanian
\nwomen’s side was stopped in its tracks by Serbia who won the game 3-nil in
\nAnkara, Turkey on September 1st. <\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/p>\n
(translated by
\nbill)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Click here for a roundup of domestic and international news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":75903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[35029,35028,32497,35027],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-103775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-agerpres","tag-bebeselea","tag-enescu","tag-yevgeny"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n