Four Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) have landed at the 57th Mihail Kogalniceanu Military Air Base, in southeastern Constanta County, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) announced on Thursday.The British detachment, arrived on Wednesday, consists of about 150 military (pilots and technical staff) and Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft and will carry out, together with the Romanian Air Force soldiers, enhanced Air Policing missions under NATO command in the next four months.This is Mihail Kogalniceanu's fourth rotation of the British Royal Air Force, after those executed in 2017, 2018 and 2021.The air policing missions, carried out jointly since 2017 and planned in the year before the deployment of the detachments, contribute to the development of the response and deterrence capability, as well as to the consolidation of the interoperability between the Romanian Air Force and the allied ones.
Romanian finance minister Tanczos Barna confirmed on January 9 that the tax collection agency ANAF, together with the judicial bodies, is investigating the financing of the electoral campaign of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, focusing on "the manner and flows of money that arrived from various sources." "It is an investigation alongside the judicial bodies, […]
Romanian energy minister Sebastian Burduja announced that he is considering extending the capping-compensation scheme, in its current form, for another 3-6 months after April 1, 2025 – when it was supposed to be phased off. The ministry is working on several scenarios, he said. One of the scenarios is to keep the compensation-cap scheme for […]
Turkish exporters want to use a new maritime route for their goods and are looking at Romania’s port of Constanta in the context of hundreds of trucks waiting for a long time at the border crossings with Bulgaria, especially at those at Kapikule and Hamzabeyli, according to Türkiye Today. ...
The European Commission has refused to grant a temporary derogation from the obligation to purchase greenhouse gas emission certificates (CO2) for natural gas and coal-fired energy produced by Romanian companies OMV Petrom and CEO for the Republic of Moldova, according to
Romania's Competition Council announced on January 9 that it found that the country's three major cement producers, Holcim Romania, Romcim, and Heidelberg Materials, were responsible for price collusion and decided fines in a total amount of RON 217 million (nearly EUR 44 million). Holcim, which has to pay the largest...
International rating agency S&P announced it would carry out its first review of Romania's rating on January 24 and another two times later this year in April and October, according to
