Eggs and poultry meat were included on the list of products that can be imported from Ukraine only on the basis of import license, announces the minister of agriculture, Florin Barbu. He said that the measure was adopted following a discussion with associative forms and mentioned that Romania, as a member state of the European Union must comply with certain conditions, and this implies higher costs.‘Costs, clearly, are higher by 30% than those in Ukraine, as they do not have the conditions of the European Union. And we took this decision. But we did not take a decision to license these products, so that when the food industry needs these products and Romania does not have a 100% degree of self-sufficiency in certain periods, it can import these products on the basis of a license (…).The same mechanism that we gave to cereals, flour and sugar’, he mentioned.Florin Barbu announced at the same time that the measures for support offered to the farmers this year were over five billion euro. The measures were adopted in the context of the crisis provoked by the aggression of Russia against Ukraine, aimed at supporting investments in agriculture, irrigation and combating dangerous phenomena.Among those there are measures for support from the state budget worth over 1.91 billion euro. ‘For the 2023 and 2024 campaign, support measures from European funds through the Payments Agency of 2.6 billion euros have recently been completed. This amount includes payments for interventions related to the support of the market measures, foreign trade, fruits for schools, annuity agricultural life, promotion of agricultural products. Of these, we mention: 25 measures worth 1.87 billion euro, representing a degree of absorption of more than 98.52% of the ceiling from European funds were reimbursed by the ministry of agriculture and practice revenues were made to the state budget’ declared the minister of agriculture.
Romanian non-profit Dăruiește Viață has completed a new renovation project at the “Louis Țurcanu” Emergency Children’s Hospital in Timișoara, upgrading the Pediatric Onco-Hematology Transplant Unit to modern medical standards. The investment, worth approximately EUR 150,000, was funded by Linde Gaz Romania and Atos Global Delivery Center. The organisation has been working with the Timișoara hospital […]
The multimedia exhibition Aici Se Vede Jazz (Here You Can See Jazz), set to open at SAC Berthelot in Bucharest, explores how jazz found its way in the pre-1990 Bucharest and “the contemporary ways to listen, visualize, perform and relate artistically to its world of sounds and ideas.” Bucharest had improvised studios, rehearsals with the […]
Aon Romania, part of the global group Aon plc, draws attention to the urgent need for structured solutions to protect trade receivables in an economic context characterized by high volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. The subject was central to the discussions at TRADE CREDIT TALKS - Receivable Protection in the Age of Volatility, where business leaders […]
Bucharest’s shopping centres posted mixed financial results in 2024, with major discrepancies between the city’s largest malls and mid-sized retail centres, according to financial analysis platform RisCo.ro. The data shows contrasts in profitability and turnover, as well as significant losses among some of the capital’s biggest retail projects. AFI Cotroceni recorded the highest turnover of […]
Nearly nine in ten Romanians expect to spend less or no more than last year on Christmas shopping, according to a new survey by tbi bank that highlights the impact of rising prices on household budgets ahead of the winter holidays. The nationwide poll, conducted in October on a sample of 1,011 respondents, shows that […]
A total of 77% of homeowners who answered a survey by ING and Ipsos said they implemented measures in the past three years to improve energy efficiency. The need to save on energy bills was the main driver of household modernization, the survey showed. Most respondents (62%) said they did so to reduce energy costs, […]
