The number of new car registrations in Romania in the first four months of the ongoing year, dropped by 0.69% compared to the same period of 2023, to 46,504 units, from 46,831 units, according to data centralized by DRPCIV, quoted by the Association of Automobile Builders in Romania (ACAROM). The volume of second hand cars registered for the first time in Romania, in the period analyzed reached 114,027 units, on the rise by 15.81%. According to the source, over January-April 2024, new car registrations reached 46,504 units, a level similar to the same period of 2023 , of 46,831 units (-0.69%). The top of new cars registered in the mentioned period of time, includes Dacia with 13,549 units, followed by Toyota – 3,996 units, Skoda (3,417), Volkswagen (2,787), Hyundai (2,714), Renault (2,710), Ford (1,965), Mercedes (1,872), BMW ( 1,727) and Suzuki (1,619).
Hundreds of police officers from several counties in Romania protested on January 14 against the reduction of their incomes as an effect of the fiscal corrective package endorsed by the government at the end of 2024. Under the corrective package, some bonuses have been reduced or eliminated, while overtime will be compensated with...
The Romanian far-right opposition party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) filed a request to summon the lawmakers on January 20-24 to begin the procedures for suspending president Klaus Iohannis from office, Digi24 reported. AUR...
The leader of Romania's nationalist party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, was elected, on January 14, vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR Party), one of the most influential parties on the current European political scene, during a congress organized by the ECR Party in Brussels. "George Simion has […]
The price of natural gas continued to rise on January 14 at Bucharest commodity exchange BRM due to the cooling weather and uncertainties regarding the long-term functionality of the only gas pipeline that still transports Russian gas to Europe, TurkStream. The price exceeded the threshold of RON 300 (EUR 60) per MWh for the first […]
Romania is looking to alternative parts of the bond markets to keep its borrowing costs as competitive as possible, the head of Treasury Stefan Nanu said in Vienna on January 24, as quoted by Reuters and Daily Mail. Romania plans to tap the foreign markets with an FX bond as soon as...
Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu stated during an interview that he was invited to the inauguration ceremony of the US president-elect Donald Trump but declined the invitation, Hotnews.ro reported. Georgescu told Realitatea Plus host Anca Alexandrescu, whose show he frequents, that he has no reason to go, despite the fact that the right-wing, sovereignist...
