Either it’s about agrotourism or camping, villas, holiday villages or entertainment activities, the SMEs, natural persons or ONGs can access non reimbursable funds for developing this type of investments in the countryside. The value of financing is of maximum 200.000 euro, money which the beneficiary hardly receives after he had invested them. The beneficiaries of European funds have received the approval to deposit till 30 October... [...]

There is a tendency of the EU’s member states of attempting to allocate more and more resources for competitiveness. The net grantor states choose the existence of more important allocations for objectives that concern the EU’s competitiveness, being – from this point of view – a tendency of abandon of the European policy for supporting the less developed member states. This tendency is welcomed by states with... [...]

Oltenia is one of Romania’s regions with a very high rate of unemployment. The average of this economic index on those five counties from Oltenia is of 6,9%. If in Valcea county things are better, there being a rate of unemployment of “only“3,6%, not the same can be said about the county Olt – with 10% – and Mehedinti, with 9,1%. In the middle there are Dolj and Gorj counties, in both the unemployment rate being... [...]

The SMEs can bring non-reimbursable funds, for this time administrated by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and financed by the Government of Austria. This facility was recently approved through a special program. It’s about Business Advisory Services - Romania through which the financing is carried out. The program is especially directed to the consulting companies. The National Council of SMEs has revealed the... [...]

A barber’s, a Xerox, a kindergarten. These are a few ideas which an entrepreneur from the village can put into practice. Only that the initiative misses, as also the money. That’s how an inhabitant from the countryside, which can start a business on his own, without having at least financing it’s a case almost impossible. There miss the ideas for a “start-up”, but also the solutions for obtaining the money.... [...]

The small and medium sized enterprises from Constanta, which carry on trade activities, can direct to the Territorial Office for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Co-operatives (TOSMEC) in order to benefit of the non reimbursable financial allocation directed for supporting the activities of commercializing products and services on the market. The allocated budget for 2008 is of 14,7 million lei. To these money can have access the... [...]

The incomes of the European farmers are less affected then the ones of the buyers from supermarket, and the selling prices of the food are much over the ones estimated by the European Commission one year ago. With a few exceptions, in most of the European Union states, the incomes of the farmers have increased in the period in which appeared the first signs of the cavalcade for the prices of food products. The Lithuanians farmers have... [...]