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.
Romania is set to acquire 44 AAV-7 amphibious assault vehicles from the United States after the preliminary approval decision to initiate the procurement procedure was sent from Parliament to the Ministry of Defense. The ministry had requested Parliament’s prior approval, according to legal procedures, to begin the procurement process for the amphibious assault vehicles. The […]
DN AGRAR Group (BVB: DN), the largest integrated livestock farm in Romania, and BSOG Energy, an energy company focused on developing biomethane production plants across Romania, announced a cooperation agreement for a biomethane production facility in Romania, with a total capacity of up to 15 MW. The overall investment in the facility is estimated to […]
The NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) mission, charged with providing support to Ukraine against Russia, will have around 700 staff headquartered in bases in Germany, Poland and Romania, according to the new secretary general of the organization, Mark Rutte. NSATU is set to take over the coordination of military aid from the […]
The president of the junior ruling Liberal Party, Nicolae Ciucă, urged prime minister Marcel Ciolacu "to urgently explain what he will do so that Romania does not lose the approximately EUR 1.1bn from the Resilience Facility" suspended by the European Commission for six milestones not met by the country. Ciucă thus validates the EUR 1.1bn […]
Ford announced on October 15 that it will open in November waiting lists for Romania customers interested in buying the new fully electric model E-Tourneo Courier, produced at the Ford Otosan factory in Craiova. The first vehicle deliveries are expected in the first quarter of 2025. The E-Tourneo Courier Trend (passenger version), with a 100 […]
Ford Otosan announced on October 15 that it will open in November waiting lists for Romania customers interested in buying the new fully electric model E-Tourneo Courier, produced in the factory in Craiova. The first vehicle deliveries are expected in the first quarter of 2025. The E-Tourneo Courier Trend (passenger version), with a 100 kW […]
