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PM Citu :I will ask the Parliament only to validate the new ministers, not the whole Government
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Prime minister Florin Citu announced that he plans to ask Parliament's vote only for the new ministers that will replace those of the reformist USR-PLUS ...
AUR senators and deputies go on parliamentary strike
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The Alliance for Romanians' Union (AUR - opposition) senators and deputies went on parliamentary strike on Monday until the censure motion against ...
Former PSD president Liviu Dragnea announced that he will support a new political party
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Liviu Dragnea, former chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD - opposition), announced on Sunday evening that he will support a newly established party, called Alianta pentru Patrie/ the Alliance for the Homeland. According to Dragnea, the band was set up following the steps taken by Codrin ?tef?nescu. “The party was established it is called the ...
Chief of Defence Staff atttends NATO Military Committee, in Greece, discusses terrorism, hybrid warfare
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The Chief of the Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Daniel Petrescu, attended the Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence of the NATO Military Committee, which took place in Athens, Greece, from Friday to Sunday.According to the Ministry of National Defence, the 30 NATO Chiefs of Defence who participated in the meeting focused on topics related to allied operations, missions and activities.The main peacetime challenges facing the Alliance have also been ...
Mihai Serban to take over attributions of Department for Romanians Abroad's state secretary
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Mihai Serban, general director, will take over the attributions of the state secretary of the Department for Romanians Abroad until the appointment of the head of the institution, in accordance with the law, decided the Prime Minister Florin Citu.The decision was published on Monday in the Official ...
Octavian Berceanu, dismissed as National Environmental Guard commissioner general
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Octavian-Alexandru Berceanu was released from the position of general commissioner, with the rank of state secretary, of the National Environmental Guard, by a decision of the Prime Minister Florin Citu published on Monday in the Official Journal.By the same decision, it was decided that Alexandru Lucian Vasile, Deputy General Commissioner, will take over the duties of Chief of the National Environmental Guard, until the appointment of the head of the ...
Daianu: Financial crisis and pandemic push public debt up to 47pct of GDP in end-2020
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The financial crisis and the pandemic have led to an increase in the public debt from about 15% of GDP in 2008 up to over 47% of GDP at the end of 2020, with a fiscal consolidation with an average annual deficit correction rate of approx. 1.5% of GDP to stabilize the debt at just over 50% of GDP by 2024, says the president of the Fiscal Council, Daniel Daianu."The financial crisis and the pandemic have raised the public debt from about 15% of GDP in 2008 to ...
WWF Romania : PNRR is one opportunity to develop a climatically neuter economy until 2050
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The National Plan for Recovery and Resilience (PNRR) represents an opportunity for Romania to develop and get an economy neuter from the climatic point of view until 2050, by the adoption of the newest and greenest existing technologies, stated , in an interview offered to AGERPRES, Mihai Constantin, Climate and Energy Policy Officer with WWF Romania.The specialist of the organisation spoke, similarly, in the interview, about the factors which led to ...
The ministry of agriculture : Congo wants to import large quantities of grains from Romania
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
The Republic of Congo manifested its interest in importing from Romania large quantities of grains, announced on Monday the ministry of agriculture and rural development. Minister Adrian Oros met in Bucharest on Monday, at the ministry headquarters with his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, M’zinga Birihanze Desire. Minister Adrian Oros received on Monday, 20th September 2021, at the headquarters of ...
Romania has the largest deficit in the EU in terms of trade in chemicals
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Over the last decade, the EU trade surplus in chemicals with non-EU countries increased from €88 billion in 2010 to €178 billion in 2020. ...
DQL Index 2021: Romania ranks 34th in the world
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Romania’s internet quality is around 30% better than the global average – the country ...
A million of companies have been closed down in Romania over the last thirty years
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Over one million companies (1,056,574) have been closed down in Romania over the last thirty years, shows an analysis Termene.ro, according to which lack of business education is the main reason for which many companies fail. The lack of business education is the main reason for which many companies ...
Head of European Commission to come to Bucharest on September 27
Monday, September 20, 2021
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will come to Bucharest on September 27, which means that the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) is approved for Romania, Prime Minister Florin Citu stated on Friday."Ms. Ursula von der Leyen announced her program and will come to Romania on September 27, which means that the PNRR is approved for Romania, as I said. And the other good news, from the 48 billion euros, of all the programs for ...
Orban : PNL has lost trust massively : the political crisis casts doubt about the governing
Monday, September 20, 2021
The Liberal party’s ( PNL – at arule) chairman, Ludovic Orban stated on Saturday that the party ‘has lost trust massively’ and after 30th May, inside the party, there has started a ‘very tough’ fight, with instruments which ‘are not specific to the ...
The BPN of PNL adopted a resolution where they require USR PLUS to denounce any collaboration with AUR
Monday, September 20, 2021
The National Political Bureau of PNL adopted on Saturday a resolution where they ask the Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity (USR PLUS - coalition partner) ‘ to immediately and totally denounce’ any collaboration or political action with the Alliance for Romanians' Union (AUR - opposition), which they characterise as ‘ an extremist, xenophobe and anti-European ...
Romania does not recognize legitimacy of Crimean elections, reaffirms support for Ukraine's territorial integrity
Monday, September 20, 2021
Romania does not recognize the legitimacy of the elections for the State Duma of the Russian Federation organized on Sunday in Crimea, and reaffirms its support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, informs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).The cited source reminds that Romania does not recognize the "illegal annexation" of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation.The MAE also ...
MAE: Romanian workers in Austrian healthcare system must have best conditions
Monday, September 20, 2021
Romanian workers in the Austrian healthcare system must benefit from the best conditions, stated, on Friday, the State Secretary for European Affairs with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), Iulia Matei, in a joint statement with the Austrian Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution, Karoline Edtstadler."We discussed also about the field of social affairs, where I brought to the attention of Ms. Minister Edtstadler the situation ...
Some 400 troops from Romania, Portugal and Poland - at "Green Scorpions" exercise
Monday, September 20, 2021
Approximately 400 troops from Romania, Portugal and Poland, with over 65 technical means, will participate in the "Green Scorpions" 21.3 exercise, which will take place between September 20 and October 1, at "Getica" National Joint Training Center in Cincu locality, Brasov county.The objective of the exercise is joint training, increasing the level of interoperability between NATO member states and establishing common techniques, tactics and procedures to ...
Gov't approves mandatory COVID certificate to access certain activities in areas with incidence above 3/1000
Monday, September 20, 2021
The government has approved, on Friday, by decision, the obligation to present a COVID green certificate to access certain activities in localities where the incidence rate for SARS-CoV-2 infections is greater than 3 per thousand inhabitants and lower or equal to 6 per thousand.In the counties/localities where the cumulated incidence rate over 14 days is greater than 3/1000 and lower or equal to 6/1000, a series of norms are instituted for the conduct of ...
New list of countries facing COVID risk; Liechtenstein, Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana in red zone
Monday, September 20, 2021
Grenada, Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba and Liechtenstein have entered the red zone in terms of of COVID-19 incidence rate.The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) adopted, at Thursday evening's meeting, the decision on updating the list of countries/territories posing a high epidemiological risk.In the red zone according to the COVID incidence rate per thousand inhabitants there are the ...