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Iohannis: I don't think it is a great solution to discuss complicated issues in small groups
Thursday, December 19, 2024
President Klaus Iohannis stated on Wednesday that it is not "a great solution" to discuss complicated issues "in small groups".He referred to the fact that on Wednesday evening, at the residence of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking place, attended by leaders from Poland, Great Britain, France, and Italy.According to the media, one of the topics of discussion is the sending of troops to ...
Iohannis, on interference in electoral process: Romania had enormous problem and coped with it
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The head of state is participating in the EU - Western Balkans Summit and the European Council in Brussels. Iohannis had a first meeting with the new president of the European Council, António Costa, with whom he discussed "the importance of resilience and a strategic orientation, to be able to manage all the challenges". Romania had an enormous problem and coped with it, President Klaus Iohannis ...
Pro-European Coalition leaders take note of USR's refusal to show ''a constructive and responsible attitude''
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) and national minorities continued on Wednesday the discussions on the margin of the common governing project and sent they took note of the USR refusal to ‘ manifest a constructive and responsible attitude’.‘The leaders of the Pro-European Coalition continued today the discussions on ...
President Iohannis: I will invite parties to consultations when there is clarity on person to be proposed as prime minister
Thursday, December 19, 2024
President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that he will invite the parties to consultations at the Cotroceni Palace when there is clarity on the person to be proposed as prime minister."There are ongoing negotiations between the parties. Certain things have been declared. It seems that they are working to form a pro-European coalition, but as the consultations are essentially - the ones I convene at Cotroceni - a rather formal phase, I do not want to invite ...
The second part of the European Semester Autumn Package addresses socio-economic challenges for 2025
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Commission unveils the second part of the European Semester Autumn Package. The first part, presented on 26 November, marked the first launch of the implementation cycle under the new economic governance framework. This second instalment builds upon the first and includes the following: the Commission's proposal for a recommendation on the economic policy of the euro area for 2025, the 2025 Alert Mechanism Report, and the Commission's proposal for the 2025 Joint ...
FinMin Bolos: Revision of the country rating, an alarm signal on the current period Romania is going through
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The minister of finances, Marcel Bolos stated on Wednesday that the perspective announced by Fitch Ratings regarding Romania’s long-term foreign currency rating is a ’wake-up call’ on the current period our country is going through.‘We have a negative perspective which, in a way, is an alarm signal on the present period which are going through, generated by the fragmentation of the ...
The reaction of the Ministry of Energy, following the announcement of the takeover of E.ON Romania by a state-owned company from Hungary
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Ministry of Energy reacted promptly to the announcement of the acquisition of E.ON Romania by the Hungarian state-owned company MVM, https://spotmedia.ro/ reads. The institution led by Sebastian Burduja stated that it has taken note of this ...
Staple food price cap extended until 30 June 2025
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The implementation deadlines for the licensing mechanism provided for by the Emergency Ordinance for some products from Ukraine and temporary measures to combat the excessive increase in prices of some agricultural and food products will be extended, Agriculture Minister Florin Barbu announced on Wednesday at the Government meeting. According to a communiqué of the Ministry of Agriculture and Sustainable ...
Construction works down 4.1pct in first ten months
Thursday, December 19, 2024
The volume of construction works, as a gross series, decreased overall by 4.1% in the first ten months of the year compared to the same period last year, due to a decline in maintenance and current repairs (-9.2%) and new construction works (-4.1%), according to data the National Institute of Statistics (INS) published on Wednesday.Between January 1 and October 31, 2024, capital repairs advanced 7.4%.By type of construction, there were declines ...
Turnover in market services to population down 1.1pct January through October
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Turnover in market services provided to population went down in the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period in 2023, both as a gross series, by 1.1pct, and as a series adjusted depending on the number of business days and seasonality, by 0.9pct, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS).According to the INS, the activity of market services provided to the population, gross series, during the period ...
Timisoara declared 'the first city free of communism in Romania', marked by Freedom Gala
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
On the 35th anniversary of the Revolution, the city of Timisoara commemorates on Tuesday the first 66 demonstrators in the city who died for freedom during the events of December 1989.A memorial service for the martyred heroes was held at the Metropolitan Cathedral, as part of the bishop's liturgy. The Municipality of Timisoara honours the memory of the December 1989 Revolution and martyr ...
PSD, PNL, UDMR and national minorities agreed on principles and measures of future ruling program
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) and national minorities leaders announced they had established meaures and principles of the future governing program, laying accent on reforms and investments and reducing state expenses. “Leaders of the main pro-European parties in Romania gathered at Victoria Palace today to ...
Calin Georgescu threatens CCR judges with “many years in prison”
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Former independent presidential candidate Calin Georgescu threatened the Constitutional Court (CCR) judges with “heavy prison sentences” after the decision to annul the presidential elections and asks them to “repair their mistake”. “Ladies and gentlemen, judges of the CCR, have you broken your oath? By what you decided on December 6, did you ...
American senators condemn Russia's interference in Romania's presidential elections
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Four American senators, republicans and democrats, condemn Russia's interference in Romanian presidential elections and express their support for this country in the fight for the integrity of the election process. Vladimir Putin's attack on Romanian elections is another example of the hybrid war against European allies and partners, declared senators Pete Ricketts, Ben Cardin, Jim Risch and Jeanne ...
President Klaus Iohannis to attend European Union - Western Balkans Summit and European Council meeting
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
President Klaus Iohannis, on Wednesday and Thursday, will be attending the European Union - Western Balkans Summit and the European Council meeting, which will take place in Brussels, Belgium.The EU-Western Balkans Summit, scheduled for Wednesday, will focus on evaluating the implementation of the Growth Plan for this region and the efforts for regional integration, in the context of EU enlargement, which represents the main geopolitical investment that the ...
POLITICO: EU opens investigation into TikTok and the Romanian election
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
*TikTok presents a major test of how the EU polices foreign interference and election meddling, https://www.politico.eu/ reads. The European Union is bringing out the big guns over TikTok’s handling of election content. ...
U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec awarded the National Order “Star of Romania”
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Romania has chosen the right path - the European and Euro-Atlantic path - towards democracy, peace, security and prosperity for all its citizens, although there is always more to be done, US Ambassador in Bucharest Kathleen Kavalec said Tuesday.She was awarded the National Order of the Star of Romania, in a ceremony held on Tuesday, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE)."I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this ...
Romanian citizen accused of spying for Russia sentenced to five years detention for treason
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Romanian citizen Alexandru Piscan, who was accused by DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) of sending images of Romanian or NATO military objectives to the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, has been sentenced by the Bucharest Court of Appeal to five years and six months in prison for committing the crime of treason, in a continuous form.The man was pre-trial arrested in May, the measure being subsequently extended ...
Fitch Revises Romania's Outlook to Negative; Affirms at 'BBB-'
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Fitch Ratings has revised the Outlook on Romania's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to Negative from Stable, and affirmed the IDR at 'BBB-'. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this rating action commentary. Under applicable credit rating agency (CRA) regulations, the publication of sovereign reviews is subject to ...
Study: About half of country children live in families that barely have money for day by day living
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
About half (48%) of children in the rural area (864,000) live in families where there is not enough money from one month to another for basic things in Romania in 2024, according to an ample study about the situation of children in the rural area, released on Tuesday by World Vision Romania. According to the mentioned source, 38% of rural families had to give up buying clothes and ...