World IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Prices of Essential Goods Are Frozen
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Romania announced a six-month freeze on the prices of staple foods and other essential goods and services after riots prompted by economic reforms and soaring inflation. The prices of bread, milk, edible oil, sugar, meat, public transport and state housing rents will remain unchanged until April 1 and possibly until July. The items are the sole survivors of price reforms that ended decades of Communist-style state subsidies.
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