President Klaus Iohannis promulgated on Thursday a law on the purchase of 32 F-16 airplanes, as part of the program “Multi-role Air Force planes”. The law stipulates the purchase of 32 F-16 airplanes by the Government of Romania from the Norwegian Government, together with logistic support and technical - engineering staff training, while observing provisions of article 22, letter f) from government emergency order no 114/2011 on public purchase contracts in the fields of defense and security, approved with amendments through law 195/2012, with later amendments and completions. The Finance Ministry is authorized, upon the suggestion of the Defense Ministry to ensure additional credit, representing the equivalent in lei of 494 million euros, needed for signing the contracts. Budget credits needed to carry out contracts provided at art. 1, and engagement credits supplemented in conditions of paragraph 2, are ensured by the state budget, through the Defense Ministry budget, in the limit of budget credits allocated by annual budget laws.
TikTok has launched an Election Center dedicated to Romania's upcoming elections as part of its broader effort to protect "the integrity of the platform" and promote access to reliable information. The initiative is supported by a new media literacy campaign and ongoing collaboration with more than 20 fact-checking partners, the company said in a statement. […]
Romanian acting president Ilie Bolojan met on Friday, April 25, with a delegation from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or ODIHR, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), according to a statement from the presidential administration. The acting president told the delegation that Romania "is faithful to democratic principles […]
Shareholders of Romanian oil company OMV Petrom recently approved the distribution of record dividends amounting to RON 2.8 billion (EUR 562.6 million) for the 2024 financial year, as well as the 2025 budget, which provides for investments of RON 8.1 billion (EUR 1.6 billion). The decision was taken during the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meetings […]
The 2025 edition of the European Film Festival (FFE), which takes place this year in Bucharest and nine other cities, will screen more than 40 feature films, 28 of which are national premieres. The festival will also present two selections of short films, also screened as national premieres. Among them are 11 documentaries, 13 films […]
Update: The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official press release that the Romanian citizen was initially detained in the Abkhazia region four months ago and was later transferred to Sochi, Russia. "Steps have already been taken to provide consular protection and assistance with the central and local authorities, in accordance with international regulations," […]
Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, said on Friday, April 25, that it arrested a 23-year-old Romanian citizen on suspicion of spying for Ukraine by sharing the locations of Russian air defense systems. The unnamed man is accused of collecting and transmitting information about air defense sites in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to […]
