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Council of Europe Congress: 2024 local elections in Romania: the use of emergency ordinances on electoral matters should remain exceptional
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Romania should refrain from making substantial changes to the legal framework shortly before elections or from resorting to emergency ordinances to tackle politically sensitive issues, https://www.coe.int/ informs. While the 2024 local elections in Romania ...
CURS Survey: George Simion, in first place in the first survey conducted after the final decision on the candidacies
Thursday, March 27, 2025
George Simion will win the first round of presidential elections, with 29% of the votes, according to the results of a survey made by CURS between 19 and 22 March. It is the first sociological research made after the definitive list of candidates. În a survey previously made by AtlasIntel and presented by Hotnews, the AUR leader was also the favourite with over ...
AUR files motion against Energy minister
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The leader of the Alliance for Romanians' Union (AUR - opposition) Senate group, Petrisor Peiu, submitted, on Wednesday, a simple motion against the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, during the plenary session.He said that the motion is signed by 45 senators, and the president of the session, Laurentiu Plaiesu (AUR), confirmed the legality of the initiative and announced that the motion will be debated next Monday in the plenary."The reasons ...
Chamber adopts tightening penalties for absentee lawmakers
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Chamber of Deputies approved in a plenary meeting on Wednesday a modification of the institution's regulations, stipulating that deputies who do not attend plenary sessions or committee meetings will be penalized with 5% of their gross allowance for each day of absence.Tightening penalties for absentee lawmakers, who will now be fined 5% of their allowance for each day of absence, instead of 1% as it was initially, was also voted on Tuesday by the joint ...
Deficit of 1.58 pct of GDP after the first two months of 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The budget deficit stood at 1.58% of GDP after the first two months of 2025, compared with 1.64% of GDP in the same period last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Finance."The execution of the consolidated general budget in the first two months of 2025 ended with a deficit of 30.24 billion lei, or 1.58% of GDP, compared with a deficit of 28.99 billion lei, or 1.64% of GDP for the first two months of 2024," the document from the ...
EconMin: Romania-made dual-purpose drone on track for mass production by year-end
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Romania will start mass production of homemade dual-purpose - military and civilian - drones by the end of this year, after the prototype will be rolled out in summer; works to upgrade the production lines for the explosive compounds RDX and TNT are also underway, Minister of Economy, Digital Transformation, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Bogdan Ivan declared on Wednesday at the Parliament.He added that the drone concept is now in the final phase of testing ...
Romania files 50% more applications with European Patent Office in 2024
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Companies and inventors from around the world, including Romania, filed 199,264 patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO) last year, with the majority in the area of information technology, according to the 2024 Patent Index, published on Tuesday.According to an EPO press release, Romania submitted 63 applications for European patents (+50% compared to 2023), with the main areas being medical technology (11 applications) and ...
EC selects 47 strategic projects to secure, diversify access to raw materials
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The European Commission (EC) has adopted, for the first time, a list of 47 strategic projects, including from Romania, to boost domestic strategic raw material capacities, which will in turn strengthen the European raw materials value chain and diversify sources of supply, the EC reported on Tuesday.The new strategic projects mark an important milestone in the implementation of the Critical Raw Material Act (CRMA), which aims to ensure European extraction, ...
Survey:Eight out of ten Romanians want to use innovative products, services to save money, increase efficiency
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Eight out of ten Romanians (79%) are interested in using innovative products and services, and a similar share consider them an opportunity to save money and increase efficiency, according to the results of a specialized study published Wednesday.According to a study conducted by Reveal Marketing Research in collaboration with Leroy Merlin and the LivratAzi.ro platform, the most attractive communication messages about innovation emphasize the impact on ...
Turnover from market services provided mainly to enterprises drops by 18.2pct in January, gross series
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Turnover from market services provided mainly to enterprises decreased by 18.2%, in January 2025, compared to December 2024, as gross series, and increased by 4.5% as series adjusted depending on the number of business days and seasonality, informs the National Institute of Statistics (INS), through a press release.The decrease in the turnover from market services provided mainly to enterprises, gross series, was due to the decrease in the turnover from ...
Wholesale trade turnover down 3.1% in January
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The wholesale trade turnover (excluding the trade of motor vehicles and motorcycles), gross series, recorded a decrease of 3.1% in January 2025 compared to the same month of the previous year, according to data the National Institute of Statistics (INS) published on Wednesday.This decline was due to a decrease in the wholesale trade turnover of raw agricultural products and live animals (-33.3%), wholesale trade of other machinery, equipment, and furnishings ...
MAE: Implementation of Visa Waiver program for Romania is under evaluation
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The implementation of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) for Romania is under evaluation and the operationalization of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) system is to be postponed until a date to be announced by the American side, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) informs.The MAE recalls that on January 10, 2025 Romania was officially designated as a participating state in the American Visa Waiver Program.All citizens of the ...
Russian prosecutor's office notified of alleged 'Romanian interference' in Russia's internal affairs
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Russia accuses Romania of interference in its internal affairs, claiming that a „terrorist organization,” banned in Russia, participated in a recent forum held in the Romanian Parliament, and calls were made to Western countries, „including by foreign agents,” to achieve Russia’s military defeat and „dismemberment.” A special commission of the ...
Eurobarometer: Romanians, Europeans who believe the least in increased EU security role
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Only 47% of Romanians said, at the latestEurobarometer that they wanted EU to assume a more important role in their protection against global crises and security risks, 19% lower than the European average (66%). On the other hand, Romanians are less pessimistic than Europeans about the drop of the standard of life in the next 5 years, 24% against 33%. Asked about EU assuming a more important role in ...
Acting President of the Romanian Senate Mircea Abrudean , meeting with Maia Sandu în Chisinau
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The interim President of the Senate, Mircea Abrudean, on a visit to Chisinau, reaffirmed the "solid" partnership between Romania and the Republic of Moldova at a meeting with President Maia Sandu on Tuesday."Today, in Chisinau, I reaffirmed the solid partnership between Romania and the Republic of Moldova, together with President Maia Sandu. Our relationship is a special one, based on friendship, strategic cooperation and mutual support. Romania remains a ...
Senator Abrudean in Chisinau: Romania remains a reliable partner of Moldova
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Interim Chairman of the Romanian Senate Mircea Abrudean highlighted on Tuesday in Chisinau, after meeting his Moldovan counterpart Igor Grosu, that Romania remains a reliable partner of Moldova, supporting it in overcoming an ongoing energy crisis and in the European integration process."This meeting reaffirms the special nature of the relationships between Romania and Moldova, a relationship based on a solid strategic cooperation, based on deep ...
Defence minister Tilvar, NATO Secretary General Rutte discuss importance of Black Sea region
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Minister of National Defence Angel Tilvar had a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday. The discussions focused on security developments in the Black Sea region, the consequences of the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine, and the joint efforts to strengthen the deterrence and defense posture on the Eastern Flank.In the context of preparations for the NATO Summit in The Hague, to be held in June, the two officials ...
Fitch Wire: Romanian Political Uncertainty High Ahead of Presidential Election
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Political uncertainty will stay high in Romania in the run-up to May’s rerun presidential election, Fitch Ratings says. The challenges to reducing record-high deficits and stabilising debt and the risks to the durability of the coalition government amid social polarisation are reflected in the Negative Outlook on Romania’s ‘BBB-’ sovereign rating.The three leading candidates ahead of the first-round vote on 4 May are Crin Antonescu, ...
PresidentialElection2025/ Murphy (OSCE/ODIHR): Own assessments of election campaign coverage in media and online
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Head of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) observation mission to Romania, Eoghan Murphy, told a press conference on Tuesday that his team will make "its own assessments of the media and online coverage" of the campaign for the May presidential elections.The observers will meet with all the parties involved and we will make our own assessments of the media and online coverage. According to these observations ...
EC endorses preliminary assessment of Romania's third payment request
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The European Commission (EC) has given a positive preliminary assessment of the key milestone in Romania's third payment request regarding the reduction of the special tax regime for micro-enterprises, according to an EC statement released on Tuesday.So far, 68 out of the 74 milestones and targets have been positively assessed under this request which totals to EUR 2 billion (net of pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece ...