The Ukrainian electricity grid is ‘connected’ to the European grid, announces on Wednesday the French minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, whose country has the presidency of the EU, AFP says. ‘We committed to this, and we did it. The Ukrainian electricity grid which functioned isolated at the beginning of the war is connected starting this morning to the European grid’ announces in a posted message on Twitter the French minister for energy. Europe studied over the last period an urgent demand on the part of Ukraine for the synchronization of the electricity grids, which facilitates exchanges between the countries and allows the covering of a supply issue with any of them in a more efficient way. ‘Ukraine has become a member of the European Energy Union’ welcomes president Volodimir Zelenski, in a message posted on Twitter. ‘Starting now, the Ukrainian electricity runs in the European Union and vice versa’ he said.. Ukraine was synchronized with the Russian electricity grid until the Russian invasion and functioned after that alone. The electricity grid of the Republic of Moldova is also connected to the European network, announces Pompili. The association of the managers of European electricity transport grids – Entso-E- says, in its turn, in a press release ‘the success ‘ of synchronizing the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to Europe. It is about ‘acceleration’ of a process which had been under study since 2017 and which was sped up by the Russian war in Ukraine. The area covered by Entso-E goes beyond the EU borders and includes 35 countries, out of which Island and Cyprus.
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
