Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu has said, in the National Executive Committee meeting of the Social Democrat Party (PSD – major, at rule), that he will not resign, mention sources participating in the meeting on Wednesday. According to the same sources, Grindeanu asked his colleagues in the Social Democrat leadership who drew up the evaluation report […]
Romanian open-water swimmer Avram Iancu announced Friday, August 8, that he has successfully swum across Europe along the famous Rhine–Main–Danube waterway, from the North Sea to the Black Sea. The 4,448 marathon swimming, completed in three stages over a total of 170 days without a wetsuit, marks what he says is a world first: crossing […]
The construction project for Romania’s second subway network, in Cluj-Napoca, is moving forward with the launch shaft for the boring machines. The Turkish general contractor Gulemark announced that building began for the launch shaft for the tunnel boring machines on August 11. This is the essential underground structure from which the subway galleries will be […]
Interim president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Sorin Grindeanu will face an internal leadership contest after senator Titus Corlățean declared on August 8 that he will run for the party’s top position, Antena 3 reported, quoted by
The interim president of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), Sorin Grindeanu, has summoned the party's leading body on August 11 to analyse the "situation created in the governing coalition" after the reformist party USR opposed the decree of a national day of mourning for former president Ion Iliescu. The PSD leader says that the USR's...
Romania’s government has renewed the exploitation licence for the country’s only graphite deposit, located at Baia de Fier in Gorj County, Antena3.ro reported on August 8, quoting minister of economy Radu Miruță. The...
The Czech agri-food group Agrofert, controlled by former prime minister Andrej Babis, took over, through the East Grain company in Cluj, the MarAgro farm in Timiș, the transaction being approved by the Competition Council. MarAgro SRL cultivates a total area of 7,000 hectares, mainly cereals,
