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.
Two Romanians reportedly forced open an emergency exit and ran after the plane that was preparing to take off for Bucharest from Cologne, southwestern Germany, on Friday, November 21. The two, aged 28 and 47, were late for boarding, at which point they broke an emergency window and activated a button to open a secured […]
NOËL, the longest-running designer gift fair in Romania, will hold its 16th edition on December 13–14 at Unirea Shopping Center in Bucharest. The event will feature more than 100 designers presenting handmade and curated gifts, including unique pieces, capsule collections, and seasonal items. The fair will host creators from Romania as well as artists from […]
Romania will celebrate its National Day on December 1 with a large military parade in Bucharest featuring Romanian and allied troops. The event will also showcase an extensive display of military equipment and aircraft at the Arch of Triumph. More than 2,900 servicemembers and specialists from the Ministry of National Defense, Interior Ministry, Romanian Intelligence […]
Romania’s leading bank, Banca Transilvania, announced the successful completion of its first AT1 (Additional Tier 1) bond issuance on the Dublin Stock Exchange. The final volume of subscribed orders reached over EUR 2.65 billion, representing an oversubscription 5.3 times higher than the amount BT intended to raise. More than 180 investors, a record in Banca […]
During the Executive Committee meeting on Thursday, November 20, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation decided to dissolve the national teams after a series of public accusations of harassment. The accusations are not new. At the end of October, upon returning to the country after the World Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, 23-year-old athlete Denisa Golgotă revealed that […]
Chinese electronic giant Xiaomi has opened its first physical store in Romania as part of a broader strategy to strengthen its presence on the local market, with additional retail expansion planned for 2026. The new Xiaomi Store, located in Bucharest’s ParkLake Shopping Center, is the company’s first directly operated retail space in the country and […]
