„Romania is “on time” in the process of joining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Now we are in the stage in which hearings have already started”, said Luca Niculescu, the national coordinator for Romania's accession to OECD on Thursday. “In June 2022, OECD sent us a road map with all stages to be fulfilled for accession. We answered immediately, that is a few months later, in an initial memorandum, a document of 1,000 pages for which all institutions in Romania worked. We presented our estimates for adopting OECD practices, pricedures, and standards which we sent on December 15, 2022. All 26 committees sent a lot of questions, over 10,000 and hundreds of questionnaires. Until now we received 36 evaluation missions from committees ad many auditings. We are now in the stage when hearings, even final hearings in Paris have started”, said Niculescu at the AAFBR conference. He declared that Romania applied for OECD accession in 2004 when Adrian Nastase was premier. Luca Niculescu referred to an interview granted by the US ambassador to Romania to the local press in which he said that Romania was the most advanced of the 7 candidate countries to OECD. He also pointed out that there was a target set by the premier for Romania's accession in 2026. The Association of Financial-Banking Analysts from Romania (AAFBR) organized on Thursday ïts annual conference “Romania's path to excellence by joining the OECD elite”, an event that reached the 16th edition. The 2024 AAFBR conference was devoted to the process of Romania's accession to OECD.
The third edition of Taifas Balkan Film and Culture Festival, set to take place in Timișoara between October 13 and October 19, will include a retrospective dedicated to Romanian director Radu Jude. The public will be able to see the director's short films, in addition to a preview of his latest production, Dracula, presented at […]
Sursa International Light Art Festival, an event featuring immersive installations, projections, and light structures, will take place at the National Library of Romania from October 13 to October 19. The event brings together international and Romanian artists “in a visual dialogue about technology, architecture and sensitivity,” the organizers announced. “We wanted to build the opportunity […]
Romania’s Defense Ministry has signed a contract worth RON 50.4 million with Rheinnmetall Automecanica, a subsidiary of the German defense industry giant Rheinmetall, for the delivery of drone detection systems, Economedia.ro reported. The radar system will be delivered within 18 months at most and will reportedly be...
The former Steaua Roșie cinema in Cluj-Napoca will reopen as Edison-House of Music, a cultural hub dedicated to music and community, the organizers of the Jazz in the Park festival announced. Built in the early 1900s, the Edison building became, after World War II, the Steaua Roșie cinema. After 1989, the venue underwent several changes […]
Unprecedented amounts of precipitation have been recorded in Romania as cyclone Barbara hit the country on October 5-8, according to the authorities. At the same time, Bucharest exceeded the absolute maximum levels of rain for October. “Between October 5–8, 2025, Romania was affected by the Mediterranean cyclone Barbara, which formed over the Ionian Sea and […]
Romania is one of six European countries recently selected to develop a new artificial intelligence and supercomputing center under the EuroHPC – AI Factories program. The project, known as the AI Factory, will be Romania’s first national AI infrastructure, marking a major step toward strengthening its digital and research capabilities. The initiative will be led […]
