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AtlasIntel Poll: Calin Georgescu Nears 40% in Presidential Race
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
If the presidential elections were held next Sunday, independent candidate Calin Georgescu would get 38.4%, followed by Nicusor Dan with 25.4% and Crin Antonescu with 15.8%, according to a poll conducted by AtlasIntel at the behest of Nicusor Dan, who published it on his personal Facebook page on Tuesday. The poll was conducted on 2,947 respondents through random digital recruitment between February 21 ...
Opposition's motion of censure: Ciolacu II government has already accumulated shameful record of abuses and failures
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The signatories of the motion of censure "Prime Minister NORDIS must go, Romanians are tired of humiliation", tabled with the Chamber of Deputies by opposition Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), S.O.S. Romania, the Party of Young People (POT), maintain that the current government is "illegitimate" and, although it has been in office for only two months, has accumulated "a shameful record of abuses and failures"."Premier Marcel Ciolacu was imposed by ...
USR will not vote for censure motion
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Save Romania Union (USR - opposition) Senator Cristian Ghinea on Tuesday said that the parliamentarians of the Save Romania Union will not vote for the censure motion and have not signed it.Asked at the Parliament Palace whether USR maintains its decision not to sign or vote for the censure motion submitted by the opposition against the Government, Cristian Ghinea replied: "Absolutely. It's not the right moment; it's a gift that Simion is giving to ...
Deposits of non-government resident customers decline 1.2 percent in January
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Deposits of non-government resident customers declined by 1.2 percent in January compared to the previous month th to RON 624,836.6 million, while the annual growth rate was 9.0 percent (3.8 percent in real terms), the National Bank of Romania (BNR) informs in a press release on Tuesday.RON-denominated deposits of residents, representing 69.9 percent of deposits of non government customers, went down 1.6 percent to RON 436,866.0 million month on month. In ...
Loans to Romania's non-government sector decrease by 0.6pct in Jan 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
At end-January 2025, loans to non-government sector granted by credit institutions decreased 0.6% (-1.5% in real terms) from December 2024 to RON 418,630.2 million, according to data released on Tuesday by the National Bank of Romania (BNR).RON-denominated loans, representing 69.8% of total volume of loans to non-government sector, declined 0.9%, while foreign currency-denominated loans, making up 30.2% of total loans to the non-government sector, advanced ...
Minister Fechet: World Bank remains strategic partner in financing essential projects for sustainable development
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Representatives of the Ministry of Environment met on Tuesday with those of the World Bank, with the discussions aiming at strengthening the capacity to create and improve air quality monitoring programs at the national level and at ways to prevent wildfires and solutions on Romania's vulnerability to floods and drought."Romania is on an ambitious path towards sustainability, and environmental sector reforms require solid investments and ...
Interim President of Romania, Ilie Bolojan, at the “Defense and Security Strategy of Unity. Action Plan” Summit
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Romania reaffirms its "full" commitment to Ukraine's freedom, sovereignty and independence, the country's interim President Ilie Bolojan said on Monday, in a message three years after the war in Ukraine started.Bolojan participated virtually in the summit "Defense and Security Strategy of Unity. Action Plan," organised in Ukraine. Address by the interim President of Romania, Ilie Bolojan, at the ...
THREE YEARS OF UKRAINE WAR/ Ambassador Prokopchuk: Peaceful resolution must include solid security guarantees
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Ukrainian ambassador to Romania Ihor Prokopchuk said on Monday that a peaceful resolution to the war must include solid security guarantees for Ukraine.For it to be a sustainable peace deal, this has to be a solid, fair and just peace, based on international law and that respects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. The peaceful settlement must include solid security guarantees for ...
MAE: Peace deal talks impossible without Ukraine
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Romania reiterates that any discussion about putting an end to the Ukraine war cannot take place without Ukraine, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday, on the day marking three years since the beginning of the Russian Federation's large-scale military aggression on Ukraine."Romania reiterates that any discussion about resolving the Ukraine war cannot take place without Ukraine. There can be no talk on European security without the ...
Acting president invites parliamentary parties to consultations on Romania's stance at Special European Council meeting
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Acting President Ilie Bolojan invited for Wednesday the leaders of the political parties and formations represented in Parliament to the Cotroceni Palace for consultations in order to prepare Romania's position at the Special European Council meeting which will take place in Brussels on March 6, the Presidential Administration announced.According to the cited source, the consultations will take place starting at 9:00, with the parties entering talks spaced ...
Hurezeanu, at Foreign Affairs Council: Any discussion on Ukraine must not take place without Ukraine
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emil Hurezeanu, participated on Monday in the meeting of the heads of diplomacy of the EU member states - the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) - which took place in Brussels, in which context he highlighted the importance of a fair and lasting peace in Ukraine and reiterated that any discussion on Ukraine must not take place without this country.According to a MAE release sent on Monday, the agenda of the meeting included Russia's ...
Romania could become huge logistics platform for Ukraine rebuilding investments
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Ukraine's rebuilding process is likely to generate business of over $500 billion, and Romania can become a huge logistics platform these investments can start from, but we need dedicated legislation to favor the development of industrial parks, attract foreign capital and particularly boost the logistics sector, argues economic consultant Adrian Negrescu."Beyond Russian, American, and European interests, it is important to note that the war in Ukraine has ...
Analyst:Genuine peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia seems currently impossible
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Political analyst Cristian Pirvulescu believes that, as things stand now, a genuine peace treaty between Ukraine and the Russian Federation seems impossible, as any negotiation over Ukraine is no longer a negotiation, but a dictate."Three years ago, Russia launched a brutal attack on Ukraine, which should have ended with a total victory in just three days, but Russia failed to achieve its objectives and today we see that it has no way to win ...
Dungaciu: Romania risks remaining in the sphere of influence of its own indecision
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
In the context of ‘ the competition of the big powers’, Ukraine is only a dossier among those which Donald Trump must solve peacefully, professor Dan Dungaciu, sociologist, politician and analyst, who says that Romania must urgently get out of its sphere of influence of its own strategic ‘incompetence’ and ...
Professor Paun: Romania is affected to the extent that its neighbourhood with the conflict zone is worrying investors
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Romania is affected by the Ukrainian war to the extent where it creates worry for investors and rating agencies, which do not accept lightly the neighourhood with the conflict zone, says Cristian Paun, university professor of economics.As regards commercial relations with Ukraine, they were not very advanced before the war, Ukraine being outside the EU, says Paun who mentions, at the same time, that the ...
ForMin Emil Hurezeanu, meeting with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa'ar
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu had a meeting on Monday with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa'ar on the sidelines of the EU-Israel Association Council.The meeting's agenda included a wide range of topics regarding the bilateral political-diplomatic dialogue, cooperation within international formats, as well as an exchange of views on the security context in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry said.The two top diplomats praised ...
Arrears to consolidated budget declines almost 12.7pct in December 2024
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Arrears to Romania's consolidated aggregate budget decreased by 12.68% in December 2024, on a monthly basis, to RON 520 million, from RON 595.5 million in November, according to data published on the website of the Ministry of Finance (MF).Arrears of more than 90 days decreased by 20.25%, from RON 181.8 million lei to RON145 million, and those of more than 120 days decreased by 12%, from RON 321.6 million in November 2024 to RON 283.1 in December 2024. ...
Eurostat: Romania’s inflation in January - the second in the EU
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
After ten months in which Romania had the highest inflation in the EU, in January the first place was occupied by Hungary, with 5.7%, followed by Romania (5.3%) and Croatia (5%), according to data published on Monday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). The annual inflation rate in the European Union rose to 2.8% in January, from 2.7% in December, while in the euro area inflation rose to 2.5% ...
Extensive searches in the Port of Constanta in a corruption case
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors are carrying out 41 searches in the Port of Constanta on Monday morning, judicial sources have told Digi24.ro. The action is large-scale and targets acts of corruption – taking and giving bribes. Among those targeted by the investigation is the head of the PSD Constanta, Ion Dumitrache, according to the same sources. DNA ...
Interim President Ilie Bolojan to participate in "Defense and Security Strategy of Unity. Action Plan" summit
Monday, February 24, 2025
Interim President Ilie Bolojan will participate online on Monday in the "Defense and Security Strategy of Unity. Action Plan" summit, organised in Ukraine, the Presidential Administration informed.Ilie Bolojan participated on Wednesday in Paris in a meeting regarding the situation in Ukraine and security challenges in Europe. He was accompanied by presidential advisor Luminita Odobescu.The interim president said that at the meeting in the ...