The prime-minister Marcel Ciolacu met on Wednesday at the government headquarters the general manager of the Greek energy company Public Power Corporation (PPC) and Alessio Menegazzo, manager for Sustainability and Institutional Affairs of the subsidiaries in Romania of the Italian group Enel. PPC and Enel are expected to finalise this month the transaction, announced for the first time on the local market by Profit.ro through which the operations in Romania of the Italians have been taken over by the Greeks.The meeting at Victoria Palace was also attended, besides Stassis and Menegazzo by the founder and CEO of the Romanian group specialized in services for the energy industry Adrem, Corneliu Bodea who is also the president of the professional body Centrul Roman al Energiei. As Profit.ro said, the ministry of energy has recently decided through the Energy Holding Management Company (SAPE) where he is the only shareholder and owns minority stakes in Romanian energy suppliers and distributors whose controlling stakes are being sold by Enel to PPC, that the Italians’ transaction with the Greeks can go ahead without Enel SpA first being obliged to make a sale offer to the Romanian state for the majority stakes about to be sold to the largest Greek energy company. Thus, the details of the conclusion of the acquisition process by the Greek group PPC of the Romanian business of the Italian company Enel, announced for the first time on the local market by Profit.ro, have been finalized. The Italians' entire portfolio in Romania will come under Greek control for a price of €1.26 billion. PPC plans to finance the acquisition through a combination of debt and equity, of which €800 million will come from already secured financing available in the form of a €485 million five-year loan from Greek banks and a €315 million bridge loan from international banks.
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians, or AUR, announced during a meeting on Monday, November 3, that it supports former TV presenter Anca Alexandrescu for the position of mayor of Bucharest. The elections will be held on December 7. The leadership of AUR decided unanimously to support Anca Alexandrescu, although she is not a […]
A former Royal Navy minehunter has arrived at the Port of Constanța on Monday, November 3, to join the Romanian Naval Forces, following a 41-day journey from the United Kingdom that covered more than 4,200 nautical miles. The vessel, now named M271 “Căpitan Constantin Dumitrescu,” is the second minehunter delivered to Romania under a government-to-government […]
Romania has formally signed an intergovernmental agreement to acquire 18 F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands, the Ministry of Defense announced on Monday, November 3. The aircraft, already stationed at the Fetești Air Base as part of the European F-16 Training Center (EFTC), will now become the property of the Romanian state and will be […]
Romania has 454 casinos, which places the country right after the United States, which hosts 2,147 such places and over 600 casino hotels, B1tv.ro reported. Bucharest ranks as the second city, after Las Vegas, in terms of the number of casinos per population....
The candidate of the National Liberal Party (PNL) for Bucharest general mayor, Ciprian Ciucu, is two percentage points ahead of Daniel Băluţă, the representative of the Social Democrats (PSD) in the race, seen so far as the preferred one, according to a survey commissioned by the Liberal Party and published by Cotidianul.ro, as reported by
Romania is nearing the conclusion of a "huge USD 30 billion" investment agreement with the United States covering nuclear, hydro, natural gas, and artificial intelligence-based technologies, energy minister Bogdan Ivan announced last week, according to Ziare.com and
