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Romania has signed Treaty of the High Seas
Friday, September 22, 2023
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luminita Odobescu, signed the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, also known as the Treaty of the High Seas, as part of her participation in the high-level segment of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), sent on Thursday, the political significance of the ...
Iohannis: Russia expected weak international community; it was a wrong calculation
Friday, September 22, 2023
Russian drones are not attacking Romania, but the fact that their debris fall on the territory of our country creates a "real problem" and an "unacceptable" situation, President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday.The head of state participated in the World Leaders Forum event with the theme "Romania's perspective on the war against Ukraine and its impact on security at the Black Sea", at Columbia University in New York and answered students' ...
Iohannis: Russian drones do not attack Romania, but falling in Romania, they pose real problem
Friday, September 22, 2023
Russian drones are not attacking Romania, but the fact that their debris fall on the territory of our country creates a "real problem" and an "unacceptable" situation, President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday.The head of state participated in the World Leaders Forum event with the theme "Romania's perspective on the war against Ukraine and its impact on security at the Black Sea", at Columbia University in New York and answered students' ...
Constanta port operators increase cereal manipulation capacities
Friday, September 22, 2023
Constanta port operators make investments in increasing cereal manipulation capacities while Ukraine boost exports through Romania, Viorel Panait, general manager of Comvex SA port operator told Reuters. The Romanian government announced it wanted to double transit capacities for Ukraining cereals through Constanta port, to 4 million tons per month, from a level close to zero before the Russian invesion ...
Egypt bought 120,000 tons of wheat from Romania
Friday, September 22, 2023
GASC, the General Supply Authority from Egypt, an entity in charge with the strategic purchase of wheat on behalf of the Egyptian state, annunced on Wednesday that it had bought 120,000 tons of wheat from Romania at an international auction, according to Reuters. According to traders, wheat was purchased by Viterra and ADM companies at a price of 255.91 dollars per FOB ton and 272 dollars ...
President Iohannis, Vietnamese prime minister discuss cooperation in field of education, among other topics
Friday, September 22, 2023
President Klaus Iohannis met on Wednesday in New York with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, with whom he also discussed cooperation between the two countries in the field of education."Very good meeting today in New York, on the sidelines of the UN GA, with the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh. We discussed ways to intensify dialogue, economic and sectoral cooperation - including through the EU-Vietnam framework ...
Romanian-Austrian agreement for simplifying process of applications for taking over or taking back asylum seekers
Friday, September 22, 2023
The government approved, on Wednesday, an administrative agreement between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania and the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria aimed at simplifying and reducing the duration of the processing of applications for taking over or readmission of asylum seekers.The agreement facilitates the application of Regulation (EU) no. 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 26, 2013 ...
REPER lawmakers urge opposition parties to back motion of censure
Friday, September 22, 2023
The group of non-affiliated MPs members of REPER on Thursday told a news conference that they finalised a motion of censure and called on the Save Romania Union (USR), Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) and the Right Force to join this effort after the government announced changes in the Tax Code under a bill that it intends to pass by taking responsibility for."In recent months, the government led by Marcel Ciolacu has unprecedentedly intensified ...
President Iohannis on new tax measures: Step in the right direction, we know we have systemic problems
Friday, September 22, 2023
The new tax measures prepared by the government are "a step in the right direction", in the context of "systemic problems" in Romania, president Klaus Iohannis said Wednesday in a press statement."A step in the right direction. We must see things as they are. The fact that now will not solve all the systemic problems accumulated in 30 years is again something that is easy to understand, but steps must be taken. We can't continue to pretend that public money ...
FinMin: Romania risks losing 75 billion euros if necessary measures to reduce budget deficit are not taken
Friday, September 22, 2023
Romania risks losing 75 billion euros if it does not implement the package of measures to reduce the budget deficit, 46 billion euros from the Cohesion Policy and 29.3 billion euros from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), said on Wednesday evening, the minister of Finance, Marcel Bolos, in a press briefing at Victoria Palace.He presented the draft law on some fiscal and budgetary measures, for which the Government will assume responsibility, ...
Foreign Investors Council: New fiscal measures package puts investments under question mark
Friday, September 22, 2023
The Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has warned on the recent proposals for tax changes, which not only substantially change the tax legislation and introduce a series of new taxes or increases, but also cancel the fundamental principle of the Tax Code that granted a 6-month period needed for businesses to adjust to the new rules.According to an FIC press statement released on Thursday, for many of the new fiscal measures it is impossible to estimate the ...
Romania’s Private Sector Needs 250,000 Workers to Fulfill Demands
Friday, September 22, 2023
Romania needs up to 250,000 new employees from abroad, mainly from South-East Asia, to cover the workforce needs in the blue-collar area. As the young people of Generation Z are rather reluctant to engage, especially in the technical sectors, we need people to cover the labor force requirement. But the bureaucracy still remains difficult, and the recruitment processes are hard to achieve. The guests from the first panel of the event, organized by Business Review, Working ...
Survey: Half of Romanian employees say they’ve been contacted for work during their holidays
Friday, September 22, 2023
Half of the Romanian employees say they have been contacted on vacation by colleagues and managers to solve situations that arise at the office, a third take their laptops on their holidays, and about 60% check their work email while on vacation, according to a survey conducted by Undelucram.ro, the largest online employee community in Romania and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The survey was ...
Four dead, two injured in Calimanesti gas pipeline explosion, in fire on future Moldavia Motorway
Friday, September 22, 2023
Two men, 61 and 53 years old, victims of the explosion at the gas pipeline in Calimanesti, followed by the fire, who had burns on 65% and 40% of their bodies respectively, were taken by helicopter and transferred to medical units in Bucharest, informed, on Thursday morning, the Vrancea County Ambulance Service (SAJ).According to the source, the five people injured following the explosion in Calimanesti reached the Emergency Department of the Adjud Municipal ...
The Bread Fair, at the Village Museum in Bucharest this weekend
Friday, September 22, 2023
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) and the National Museum of the Dimitrie Gusti Village are organizing, between September 22-24, 2023, the third edition of the Bread Fair, where Bucharest residents are expected to taste over 100 certified traditional Romanian agri-food products.The event will mark the Day of the Romanian Village, which is celebrated since 2020 on the last Sunday of September."The products and dishes ...
Meeting between Iohannis - Zelenski - von der Leyen and Bulgarian Deputy PM, in New York
Thursday, September 21, 2023
President Klaus Iohannis had on Wednesday a meeting with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenski, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, Mariya Gabriel.The meeting took place in the context of their participation in the UN General ...
President Iohannis: An extended UN Security Council could include important additional voices
Thursday, September 21, 2023
An extended Security Council could include important additional voices: from the African Group, of the various small island developing states and even the "smallest regional group," the Eastern European one, President Klaus Iohannis stated on Wednesday.He participated in the General Assembly of the United Nations.The head of state stated that, on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, Romania "strongly pleads ...
President Iohannis: Black Sea region must be protected against the effects of the war in Ukraine
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Our region, the wider Black Sea area, must be protected against the effects of Russia's war against Ukraine and its hybrid war and malign interference, the Romanian head of state, Klaus Iohannis, told the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization.He recalled that "since the day one of the war, Romania has acted in full solidarity with the brave Ukrainian people.""We will continue to provide safe haven and protect refugees coming ...
Romanian, Ukrainian senior officials discuss implementation of recommendations for Ukraine's EU accession
Thursday, September 21, 2023
An exchange of opinions on the recent developments in Ukraine generated by the continuation of Russia's aggression, and the reform efforts of the Ukrainian government to get the country closer to entering the Europe Union were the subjects of discussion at a breakfast on Tuesday attended by senior offcial with the Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) Daniela Gitman and Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna.According to MAE, the meeting was organised ...
DefMin Tilvar, US's Austin at Ramstein on security situation at border with Ukraine, the Black Sea
Thursday, September 21, 2023
The strategic decisions made by Romania in the last 33 years include, in addition to joining NATO and the EU, the building of a strategic partnership with the United States of America, with an extremely solid component in terms of security and defense, the minister of National Defense, Angel Tilvar said, at a meeting held on Tuesday evening, in Germany, with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, the ministry informs.On the sidelines of the meeting of the ...