Minister of National Education Pavel Nastase attended on Monday in Brussels a meeting of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council, where a new recommendation of the Council was adopted in regards to the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning. According to press release of the Ministry of Education, Nastase attended the debate on how […]
The Romanian government abandoned plans to approve on August 8 a draft law to regulate the disbursement of private pensions, because of the protests coming from consumer associations and politicians, according to Ziarul Financiar. The opponents particularly challenge a provision restricting the...
Romania’s central bank on August 8 announced it has maintained the monetary policy rate at 6.5% given the already higher-than-expected inflation in June, but particularly the expected price shock prompted by the electricity price in July, following the market liberalisation, and the VAT rate hike. Accordingly, the inflation will surge “markedly” in Q3, but will […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan made a private visit to the Republic of Moldova this past weekend, where he joined Moldovan leader Maia Sandu at the Wolves Festival/Festivalul Lupilor in the Orheiul Vechi Nature Reserve. Photos posted on social media showed the two heads of state mingling with participants in a relaxed, informal setting. This was […]
Warm and stormy. That would describe this summer so far. Here are some of my faves for the capricious season, films set in summer and/or with a summery air: dusty, sweaty, erotic, romantic, chaotic, melancholic, dangerous. All of it. My most recent (unexpected) highlight is Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. The master of the spaghetti western, […]
Associates of the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Șor were urged to vote for far-right candidate George Simion in the presidential elections in Romania back in May, according to the General Inspectorate of Police of the Republic of Moldova. Moldovan police made public several messages discovered on the phones of those close to Ilan Șor as […]
The month of July was nearly 2 degrees Celsius warmer than normal in Romania, with temperatures exceeding 43 degrees Celsius in the southern Oltenia region and over 40 degrees Celsius in Transylvania. Eleven new heat records were set, and there were also intense rains as well as severe hailstorms, according to the climatological summary published by […]
