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.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
