Romania has received a positive opinion from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) regarding corporate governance, said Corina Cretu, interim president of the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Enterprises Performance (AMEPIP), on Saturday."In the three months since I have been acting as interim president of AMEPIP, I have managed, together with the team from the Government and the institution, to fulfill all the requirements of the European Commission regarding the operational functioning of the institution: publishing the minimum performance indicators for state-owned enterprises; collecting all points of view, drafting the text that was adopted by Government Decision on the Property Law, which will be debated in Parliament; adopting and publishing the procedure for controlling and applying sanctions for enterprises that do not fulfill their minimum obligations regarding profit or indicators or selection procedures for the Board of Directors," Corina Cretu wrote on Facebook.She mentioned that she has also resolved all the emergencies, including all the final reports of the companies belonging to the almost 1,400 local authorities."The OECD assessment is positive regarding our work on corporate governance, and this, as I said, was announced on Thursday in Paris, mentioned in the OECD Assessment Report," Cretu mentioned.Corina Cretu said she was certain that regarding the selection process of the new management, organized by an independent commission, the Government will make a rigorous analysis and will decide in the coming days how to proceed.
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
A young Romanian has developed a new system that allows people to return entire bags of recyclable packaging at once, replacing the traditional method of inserting bottles one by one into reverse-vending machines. The concept, called IZI, was created by Ștefan Parascanu, who returned to Romania after studying and working in the United Kingdom. The […]
JTI, the global owner of both Winston and Camel, announced on Thursday, November 27, a plan to build a new, state-of-the-art factory in Ștefăneștii de Jos, Ilfov County. Designed to replace the current Bucharest production site, which is operating under space constraints, the facility is scheduled for completion in 2027. Ground works at the new […]
