President Nicusor Dan estimates that ‘in ten days’ Romania will have a sworn-in government. ‘We are in a phase of discussions. I appreciate that everybody is reasonable, I am talking ab out the party leaders. We expect to come with the assumed set of, measures. There will be, let’s say a draft, tomorrow about the way things will go. It will not be a final variant (of the fiscal measures –editor’s note).It will be a draft agreed by the parties’ said the head of state on Sunday.According to the president’ at present, all are working scenarios’.‘The moment you see a package assumed by the parties, this will be, but now they are working scenarios. Everything now is in a stage of discussion’ reiterated President Nicusor Dan.A first draft of the future governing programme is expected on Monday, as Nicusor Dan stated this week.'We want to have a first draft of the government programme on Monday (...) We haven't discussed the names (of the prime minister - editor's note) so far. All discussions have been on the programme', the head of state said on Wednesday in his first press conference held at the Cotroceni Palace. A day later, on Thursday, the president said that all the parties currently in talks - PSD, PNL, USR, and UDMR - want to enter the government. 'There will be a simultaneous discussion with the discussion on the other chapters of the programme, to be finalised on Monday. There will be a long discussion on Monday afternoon on the whole package,' Nicusor Dan explained at the time.
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
