The government announced that 614.297 Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania since 10 February. Of these, 4.328 requested some form of protection from the Romanian State. Romania can provide about 400.000 refugee accommodation at national level. Over the past 24 hours, 8.261 Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania, 4.523 directly from Ukraine, 1.952 from the Republic of Moldova and 1.786 from other States. To date, there have been no recorded cases of crimes involving trafficking in human beings or labor exploitation against Ukrainian citizens or committed by Ukrainian citizens. According to the Executive press release, on the fires in the Chernobyl region, the Ministry of Environment, water and forests and the national Meteorology Administration provide the following details: - simulations of the number models run within the national Meteorology Administration on the movement of the smoke cloud in the Chernobyl area, Ukraine, from 28 to 30 March 2022 estimate that the prevailing wind direction will be from the west — south-west to the east — north-east, so the trend in the cloud of smoke will be to travel to the south, then to the east of Ukraine and then to Russia. Thus, air circulation indicates that the territory of Romania will not be affected; - radioactivity values are kept to normal levels throughout Europe, including in Ukraine, according to the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission – monitoring of environmental radioactivity. As a result of the assessments of European specialists, air circulation indicates that Romania's territory will not be affected; - experts from the national Meteorology Administration and the national Environment Protection Agency are constantly monitoring developments and will present the results of the evaluations carried out at European level.
An expected decision on prolonging the price capping mechanism for staple food, which expires at the end of September, may generate more tensions within Romania's four-party coalition. The Social Democrats (PSD) expressed firm views over the weekend, after the government's spokesperson, Ioana Dogioiu, on September 13 claimed that the non-prolongation decision was approved by all […]
Romania's Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador for the second time in only a couple of days, after a Russian drone entered the national territory in the evening of September 13. In a mission described by Romanian defence minister Ionut Mosteanu as "most likely a provocation," the Russian drone followed a circular trajectory for 50 […]
Rosavis Prod, a business founded in 2007 by the Vica and Constantin Mihăilă family in northeastern Romania at Roşieşti, Vaslui County, which raises 2 million chickens annually, is investing EUR 10.8 million in a feed factory, Ziarul Financiar reported. Out of this, EUR 6.5 million will come...
Telecommunications operator Digi Communications (stock symbol DIGI) has hired investment bank Rothschild to evaluate a possible listing on the Madrid stock exchange of its Spanish business, the publication Expansión wrote on September 12, citing anonymous market sources, according to Ziarul Financiar. ...
Romania’s current account (CA) deficit in rolling 12 months has narrowed for the second consecutive month to EUR 32.12 billion in July, according to the data published by the National Bank of Romania (BNR). The 12-month rolling CA gap has thus narrowed by EUR 0.5 billion from June, after it previously contracted by EUR 1.4 […]
Romania's minister of finance, Alexandru Nazare, has been on a working visit to Washington, DC, from September 11 to 13 to strengthen economic and financial dialogue with American partners and attract new investors in key sectors for Romania, such as energy, infrastructure, and technology, the Ministry of Finance announced. The agenda of the visit included […]
