Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos said on Wednesday that during his meeting with British Premier David Cameron, he insisted on the need to finding solutions in connection with the free movement of workers in the European Union that would not come against the social rights conferred through the European legislation, showing that most of the Romanians who work in Great Britain pay their taxes. "I have talked with the British Premier (...) about the propositions the United Kingdom has to improving the activity within the EU and to thus have a positive approach of the UK as regards its staying in the EU. They are mostly right, their propositions could be supported by Romania except for the matter of the rights of the workers in the EU, the free movement of workers, of the employees. Here I have insisted on the need to finding solutions that would not come in contradiction to the rights that are already conferred by the European legislation, in particular when it comes to the social rights, given that most of the Romanians who go to Great Britain, they go there to work, so they pay taxes and I believe that in the future solutions could be found to consider these preoccupations of Romania," said Dacian Ciolos at the Victoria Palace. He added that they have also tackled the topic of the bilateral relations between the two countries and the need to boost the economic cooperation between Romania and Great Britain. Cameron met Romanian leaders in Bucharest then headed to Warsaw to speak with Poland's new leaders. In Poland, Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski called Cameron's plans to limit welfare benefits to migrant workers "a point of contention." Prime Minister Beata Szydlo told reporters she believes the proposed cuts are "not acceptable" but says she is open to discussing the options, AP reports. Despite the divisive issue of benefits, Cameron, a Conservative, will find much in common with the new conservative leadership in Poland, which is Euroskeptic and does not want to adopt the euro currency any time soon.
Romania’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 5.5% in September, unchanged from August, according to data published by the statistics office INS. The estimated number of unemployed people aged 15-74 fell slightly to 450,900 from 452,300 in August and 455,300 in September 2023. Unemployment rates varied by gender, with a rate of 5.7% for […]
NATO recently staged one of its largest military exercises in months at the Cincu training ground in Brașov County, Romania, where over 1,500 soldiers from seven allied countries simulated a response to an invasion scenario involving the country’s urgent defense. Fighter jets dropped bombs, and thousands of bullets were fired as NATO forces executed a […]
The Ministry of Finance in Romania revised the gross borrowing requirement from RON 217 billion to RON 235 billion, according to documents consulted by Profit.ro. Initially, Romania planned RON 181 billion gross loan borrowing requirements in line with...
The Canadian company Euro Sun Mining, the owner of the Rovina gold project in Romania, the second largest in Europe, has concluded a binding Memorandum of Understanding with the Anglo-Swiss group Glencore, the world's largest commodity trader, for the production to be obtained at the field in Romania. The project faces environmental hurdles generated by […]
The number of construction permits for residential buildings in Romania increased by 13.2% y/y in September, pushing up the annual advance to +3.3% y/y for the entire January-September period, according to the statistics office INS. The annual advance for the first nine months of the year was 3.4%, slightly larger than the average, for Bucharest. […]
Romanian state-owned company Hidroelectrica, the largest electricity producer in Romania, has launched a tender through which it wants to contract works for constructing an electricity storage facility at its Crucea Nord wind farm in Dobrogea, Profit reported. It took over the farm, with an...
