(Reuters) - Romanian legislators are set to reject a Canadian project seeking to open Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in the Carpathians due to widespread opposition, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Monday."Basically, today we must rapidly begin the rejection proceedings in the senate, then in the lower house, and that's it," Ponta told reporters. "It's very clear a decision was
The internationally acclaimed exhibition "Bearing Witness", created by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, photographer Muhammed Muheisen, and Howard G. Buffett, Chairman and CEO of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation has officially opened in Romania. As the country stands on the edge of the ongoing conflict at its borders, the exhibition takes on a deeper meaning, bringing to […]
The 3000-year-old Dacian gold bracelet auctioned during the September 17 event at the Cesianu-Racoviță Palace in Bucharest will be exhibited at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, the A10 by Artmark auction house announced. The spectacular piece of jewelry was purchased for EUR 35,000 (from a starting price of EUR 7,000) by an art and […]
Polish PragmaGO, a leading non-bank provider of SME finance in CEE, started its international expansion from the Romanian market through the acquisition of an 89% shareholding in Telecredit IFN SA (operating under the brand name Omnicredit) from investment company Reconstruction Capital II Limited (RC2) and Elisa Rusu, Telecredit's CEO, for an initial consideration of EUR […]
Former NATO deputy secretary general Mircea Geoană and prime minister Marcel Ciolacu lead in the latest presidential poll carried out by INSCOP Research for the Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Mircea...
Almost 7,000 households (6,939) in 28 communes were severely hit by the floods in Galati county, according to the updated estimates published by the local authorities on the evening of September 19. "From the data available at this moment, 28 communes are affected by floods. The data at this moment are estimates and were communicated […]
The leader of the Liberal (PNL) senators, Daniel Fenechiu, announced that his party drafted and filed for endorsement a law amendment that provides that a president in office, if he is in the last three months of his mandate, can run as an independent on a party's list or an alliance. This somehow confirms president […]
