„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.
Six men and one woman from Romania have been accused of recruiting dozens of children and adults from foster care centers, whom they then transported to Hungary, where they turned them into slaves, forcing them to work under inhumane conditions. The accused are from the localities of Ozun and Chilieni, Covasna County, Romania, and allegedly […]
The Museum of Collectivization, the first in Romania dedicated to the forced collectivization period of the communist era, is set to open a new wing, Corp B, funded through the EU-backed National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN). With the new building, the museum located in Tămășeni, […]
Romania’s “Madrigal – Marin Constantin” National Chamber Choir, conducted by Anna Ungureanu, will be in Luxembourg and Belgium, as part of the “Bridges Across Europe/Punți peste Europa” European tour, where it will perform five extraordinary concerts. The performances will take place between November 20 and 25, with the help of the Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Embassy […]
The European Development Bank approved a EUR 140 million loan for Romania’s “Cultural Foundations” project, aimed at preserving historical monuments and constructing cultural buildings in the country. The project targets 14 investment objectives of national and European relevance, administered by public institutions under the Ministry of Culture, including the Romanian Athenaeum, the Romanian National Operas […]
Bucharest, November 14, 2024 – Exim Banca Romaneasca offers clients the possibility to verify the true identity of the beneficiary when initiating a payment in RON through internet or mobile banking. This is enabled by the bank’s adoption of the Beneficiary Name Display Service (SANB), which helps prevent fraud and reduces erroneous transactions caused by […]
Fifty NGOs and civic groups, along with the Bucharest Environmental Platform, have drawn up an open letter calling on Romania’s Ministry of Environment, Waters, and Forests to urgently approve the Management Plan for the Văcărești Natural Park in Bucharest. They say the plan has been pending approval for nearly a year. The non-profits noted that […]
