The support platform for Moldova, created at the initiative of Germany, France and Romania will gather on 17th September, stated president Maia Sandu on Wednesday night, at the press conference organised in Kishinev together with the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz. . 'Germany, together with France and Romania is the co-founder of the Support Platform for Moldova, an initiative which contributed significantly to the consolidation of our capacity to face the challenges of the last three years. This platform, which now becomes the Platform for Partnership for Moldova, will be gathered on 17th September', stated the president of the Republic of Moldova quoted by https://www.moldpres.md/. The support platform for Moldova is an initiative of Romania, Germany and France which aims at offering immediate political, financial and material assistance as well as expertise for the process of democratic reform, on the part of institutions and member states of the EU, of the G7 states, of the international financial institutions and the international organisations as well as other development partners. The purpose of organising the conferences is to mobilise, concentrate and coordinate the political, tehnical and financial support of the developed countries for the Republic of Moldova, according to Moldpres. The first edition of the Ministerial Conference of the Support Platform for the Republic of Moldova took place in Berlin, on 5th April 2022. The second edition took place in Bucharest, on 15th July 2022. The third edition of the conference took place in Paris, on 21 November 2022 and the last edition was hosted in Kishinev on 17th October 2023.
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
