The Romanian real-estate market is experiencing accelerated growth, a total volume of transactions of EUR 800 M being estimated at the end of 2015, according to a survey conducted by a real-estate consultancy company and remitted to Agerpres on Monday. The positive evolution registered ever since 2014 has continued this year too, the real-estate market […]
Home prices continue to rise rapidly in most major cities across Europe and globally, including Romania. Bucharest and other large cities are nearing the critical threshold of inaccessibility for residents with average incomes, according to an analysis by the Social Monitor, a project of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Romania, based on data from Numbeo and Eurostat. In the […]
Representatives of Romania’s main education trade union federations protested on August 4 for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Ministry of Education and Research, opposing austerity measures introduced under Law 141/2025, which came into force on August 1,
The Declic Community has submitted a petition signed by roughly 90,000 Romanians to the Presidential Administration, calling on president Nicușor Dan to initiate a national referendum on the reform of special pensions. The civic group is demanding that all pensions follow the contributory principle and that the retirement age be the same for all professions, […]
Besides 5.5 GW of installed solar and wind power units already in use, Romania's market regulator ANRE has approved the construction of new units with a combined capacity of nearly 6 GW, which could double the contribution of the green energy (hydro not included) from 20% currently to 40%, according to Ziarul...
Romania’s Ministry of Energy informed on Monday, August 4, that it has authorised OMV Petrom to temporarily use 80,000 tonnes of crude oil and 30,000 tonnes of diesel out of its reserves to offset the effects of refusing two ships carrying a total of 180,000 tonnes of contaminated Azeri crude oil. Minister Bogdan Ivan declared […]
In a first move of this kind on the Romanian capital market, the five investment funds resulted from the mass privatisation scheme in the 90’s – Lion Capital, Evergent Investments, Transilvania Investments, Longshield Investment Group, and Infinity Capital (directly or through subsidiaries) – jointly financed, in full, the EUR 100 million bond issue of real […]
