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Roxana Minzatu selected as Executive Vice-President for People, Skills and Preparedness in new EC
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Roxana Minzatu, Romania's candidate for the European Commission, has been selected as Executive Vice-President for People, Skills and Preparedness in the new European Commission, announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Tuesday."I am very happy to entrust the role of Executive Vice-President for People, Skills and Preparedness to Roxana Minzatu, She will have the portfolio with responsibility for skills, education and ...
Odobescu: Romania will continue to stand by Moldova in EU accession talks
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Romania will continue to stand by Moldova at the European level in terms of negotiations for accession to the European Union, and also in concrete aspects of economic development, infrastructure consolidation and energy security, Romania's Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu said on last Tuesday in Chisinau, Moldova.The head of the Romanian diplomacy co-chaired the fifth ministerial conference of the Moldova Support Platform.She said that the ...
Romanian, Hungarian home ministers discuss migration management, border security
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Romania's accession to the Schengen Area with land borders, migration management and border security were the main subjects discussed by Romania's Home Minister Catalin Predoiu and his Hungarian counterpart Sandor Pinter at a videoconference on Monday.Amid Romania's efforts to finalise the Schengen accession file, Predoiu had a working meeting via videoconference with Pinter.According to the Romanian Ministry of Home Affairs, the discussions were ...
Presidential Administration: Klaus Iohannis will end his mandate on term
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
President Klaus Iohannis points out, considering the data vehiculated in public, that he will end his mandate on term and does not intend to resign from the position of head of state, the Presidential Administration informs. The statement appeared when the press showed there was a scenario according to which the president would resign from his position, before the end of his mandate in order to run for ...
Israeli Ambassador to Romania: Cyber threats against infrastructures, increasingly dangerous and sophisticated
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Cyber threats against our national infrastructures are becoming increasingly dangerous and sophisticated, Israeli Ambassador to Romania, Lior Ben Dor, told a speciality forum on Tuesday."I am greatly honored to open this forum where Romania and Israel will focus on strengthening and expanding their partnership in cyber security. As we all know, cyber threats against our national infrastructures are becoming increasingly dangerous and sophisticated. ...
Coalition: Budget rectification will be positive, based on a 10.4 billion lei income plus t the state budget
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Leaders of the ruling coalition said, at the Tuesday meeting that the draft budget rectification will be based on a 10.4 billion lei additional income for the budget , said coalition sources. According to the same sources, there will be four domains which will receive additional money: “Health – plus 11.4 billion lei, the health budget reaching a historic level of 4.2% of GDP (74billion ...
PNIESC: Romania aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2045
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Romania aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2045, thus bringing forward the previous deadline set for 2050, and also to ensure 38% of gross final energy consumption from renewable sources by 2030, according to the new version of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Change Plan (PNIESC).The Ministry of Energy announced in a press release on Tuesday that it has published the second updated version of the PNIESC, a document that includes 89 additional ...
AHK: Romania, an important market for German companies in energy field
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
German companies in the energy field see in Romania multiple investment opportunities in energy transition and an important market in the green energy area, was the conclusion of talks at the conference “Developing infrastructure for production, storing and supplying energy from renewable sources,” organized by the Romanian- German Chamber of Trade and Industry (AHK Romania) on ...
Eurostat:Romania Has The Most Poor In Europe: 1 In 5 Faces Severe Hardship
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
One in five Romanians is so poor that he cannot afford to have meat on the menu every day or to go on vacation, according to the latest Eurostat data. Romania ranks in last place in the European Union, after the Bulgarians. Thus, 19.8% of Romanians faced serious material and social deprivation in ...
Turnover in industry, up 4.8pct seven months into 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Turnover in industry, on the total domestic and foreign markets, increased in nominal terms 4.8% in the first seven months of this year, compared to the same period last year, according to data National Institute of Statistics (INS) published on Tuesday.The evolution of industrial business was influenced by manufacturing, which rose 5.6%, and mining, which fell 13.6%.By major industrial groups, increases in turnover were recorded in the ...
Fire In Romanian Parliament: Individual Throws Gasoline Inside Building
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
A fire broke out at noon on Tuesday at the Palace of Parliament, in the entrance area for visitors to the Chamber of Deputies. “The fire took place in the access area for visitors, level S2. Firefighters were in the building and intervened immediately, so at this point the outbreak was extinguished. The competent institutions will rule on the cause of the ...
Bucharest International Film Festival to start Thursday in Bucharest; eight awarded films in Panorama section
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
The 20th anniversary edition of the Bucharest International Film Festival (BIFF), the only international feature film competition organized in Bucharest, will screen from Thursday to September 29 eight awarded films in the Panorama section, inform the organizers in a press release sent on Tuesday.Conceived as a festival open to art cinema, which encourages newly emerging cinema trends, discovers talents and promotes young filmmakers, the 20th edition will ...
Child Protection Compact Partnership worth up to 10 million USD, signed between U.S. and Romanian Governments
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The head of the Prime Minister's Chancellery, Alexandru-Mihai Ghigiu, and the US Ambassador to Bucharest, Kathleen Kavalec, signed on Monday a five-year Child Protection Compact Partnership (CPC), worth up to 10 million USD. Internal Affairs Minister Catalin Predoiu said that child abuse, including online abuse, has worryingly risen worldwide."This partnership is one of the responses that the Romanian government and Romanian society, in ...
U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec remarks at CPC Partnership Signing Ceremony
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
September 16, 2024 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Internal Affairs Predoiu, Minister Ghigiu, Head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Honored guests, friends, colleagues, Before I begin, I would like to express my deep condolences to the families and communities of the victims of the recent floods in Galati and Vaslui. We stand in solidarity ...
Gov't to give up to RON 10,000 to families affected by floods
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The government will allocate emergency aid of up to 10,000 RON to the families affected by the floods in Galati county, prime minister Marcel Ciolacu informs on Monday, at the beginning of the extraordinary session of the Executive, where the government will take support measures for the victims of the floods."As we promised the families affected by the floods in Galati the other day, we are allocating the first amounts today to compensate part of the damage ...
Ludovic Orban announces his presidential candidacy
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
National leader of the Right Force Ludovic Orban on Monday announced his presidential candidacy in this year's election on behalf of an alliance of the People's Movement Party (PMP) and the Right Force."Today I am announcing to the citizens of Romania that I have taken the decision to enter the competition for President of Romania. I took the decision to run for president because I consider it a moral obligation I have towards the Romanian citizens and a gesture of ...
No party to be able to govern alone after December elections, political alliances to be formed
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that no party will be able to govern alone after this year's parliamentary elections and will have to join an electoral alliance, emphasizing that the Romanians' vote will be decisive in this regard.He was asked whether the Social Democratic Party (PSD) has options to form a government without the National Liberal Party (PNL) after the legislative elections, in the context of statements made by PNL leader Nicolae Ciuca at the party's ...
PMP and Forta Dreptei - political alliance for this year's parliamentary and presidential elections
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The Popular Movement Party (PMP) and the Forta Dreptei party announced, on Monday, a political alliance for this year's parliamentary and presidential elections. ' Today, a right-wing political pole is born, an authentic pole prepared for the most important battle of this year. The Popular Movement Party and Forta Dreptei party decided today, in the leadership forums to lay the foundation of a new political alliance. Today, a new force of the right, ...
CFA Romania analysts cut monetary policy inflation rate expectations to 6 pct by end of the year
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
CFA Romania Association analysts are still expecting two interest rate cuts this year, so that the key interest rate will reach 6% by the end of the year, according to a monthly survey conducted by the CFA Association Romania.Currently, the key interest rate is 6.5% per annum."In the July exercise, a survey was also conducted on the monetary policy interest rate expectations for 2024 and 2025. Thus, for this year, the survey participants expect ...
Gov't borrows RON 500 million on Monday off banks
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The Ministry of Finance (MF) on Monday borrowed RON 500 million off banks in an issue of benchmark bonds of a residual maturity of 55 months and an average yield of 6.48% per annum, according to data published by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).The nominal value of Monday's issue was RON 500 million, and the banks offered RON 775.1 million.An additional auction is scheduled for Tuesday to borrow another RON 75 million at the yield set on Monday for the ...