Former Justice minister Tudorel Toader, who orchestrated much of the wave of actions against the Judiciary launched by Romania's governing coalition for the past two years, is now claiming he was removed from office after refusing to put his signature on four justice-related emergency ordinances.
Romanian president Klaus Iohannis met with South Korea’s leader Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday, April 23, during an official visit to Seoul. Discussions focused on expanding the two countries’ bilateral cooperation, including in the defense sector. “Substantive discussions with president Yoon Suk Yeol, on the occasion of my official visit to the Republic of Korea. […]
Two years after the official opening of the first Popeyes restaurant in Romania, the American fried chicken chain decided to expand outside of Bucharest. The brand will inaugurate a restaurant in Pitești on Thursday, April 25, when the city’s new Argeș Mall also opens. The expansion of Popeyes is part of a more ambitious plan […]
Cannes Film Festival announced new additions to the 2024 official selection, and two Romanian productions are on the list. Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii/Three kilometers to the end of the world, the feature directed by Emanuel Pârvu, entered the competition, while Nasty, Tudor Giurgiu's documentary about tennis legend Ilie Năstase, has been selected in the special screenings category. […]
The Association of Romania's Wood Industry (AIL) accuses Greenpeace and Agent Green of attacking the entire wood processing industry with no grounds, furthermore misleadingly using specific terms to magnify the impact of its rhetoric in the international media. The two NGOs cultivate confusion between the term "old forests" (a legally undefined term) and the term […]
After a 13-hour debate on April 22/23, the two parties of Romania’s ruling coalition abandoned their preliminary joint candidate for the key local elections in Bucharest, Catalin Cirstoiu, skipped joint plan B and plan C announced by the Liberals (PNL) at the end of last week, and decided to appoint individual candidates for the Bucharest […]
Eurowind Energy, a Danish developer and operator of wind, solar, and hybrid projects, contracted a EUR 65.33 million loan sourced in equal parts by Erste Group Bank and its Romanian subsidiary BCR for the construction of the Pecineaga wind farm, with a total capacity of 48 MW. Pecineaga wind farm involves a total investment volume […]
