Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu met on Friday at the Victoria Palace of Government with Italy's ambassador to Romania Alfredo Maria Durante Magnoni, in the run-up to the upcoming joint sitting of the governments of Romania and Italy, scheduled on February 14 and 15 in Rome."The sitting of the two governments is yet another excellent opportunity for us to work together for our citizens and provide new levers of collaboration to Romanian and Italian investors. Deepening economic cooperation and attracting Italian investments to Romania are priorities of our bilateral relationship," Ciolacu said as cited in a release of the Executive.Talks tackled the bilateral agenda, European topics and regional security, with particular focus on economic cooperation between the two states, the cited source said.The Romanian-Italian Economic Forum will take place on the sidelines of the joint government meeting, with the participation of over 100 companies from sectors like energy, large infrastructure and defense."Italy is Romania's second largest trading partner, the second destination market for Romanian exports, and the second most important source country for imports to Romania. In 2023, bilateral trade hit an all-time record high of over 20 billion euros. Also in 2023, Italy ranked 6th of the list of foreign investors to Romania. More than 70 percent of the share capital of Italian companies is invested in Romanian industrial and energy companies," the release shows.
This loan agreement is DRI’s first internationally led syndicated financing, first certified green loan, and first multi-currency loan. The Vacaresti solar park, located in Dambovita County, Romania, has an installed capacity of 126MWp, enough to power about 50,000 households and avoid 48,600 tonnes of carbon emissions per year. DRI, the EU renewables arm of DTEK, together […]
Mircea Spiridon, a 50-year-old Romanian man, died in the Spanish region of Tres Cantos while saving an 83-year-old man, the owner of the riding stables razed to the ground in the same fire. The Romanian arrived in Spain 20 years ago. Married and with two children, ages 14 and 18, he was a mechanic by […]
The Bucharest International Air Show (BIAS) is set to launch the first exclusive NFT collection together with the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, ICI Bucharest. NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) gained popularity in the last few years as a way of owning unique digital objects. The NFT collection, titled “Cloud Chasers,” will be presented and […]
Sema Real Estate, one of the leading players in Romania’s real estate sector, announces a partnership with the Romanian fintech company Finqware to implement FinqTreasury, a key platform for the optimization and digitalization of financial operations in the real estate industry. Efficient management of collections and payments, rapid visibility into financial flows, and the elimination […]
At the British School of Bucharest (BSB), community engagement isn't an afterthought — it’s the heartbeat of school life. Guided by the spirit of #WeAreBSB, the school embraces four core mottos that shape everything from classroom discussions to student-led initiatives: #CONCERN for others, by being kind to the community #CONCERN for our planet, by being […]
Two individuals who received sums of money claiming to facilitate the acquisition of Romanian citizenship were convicted in absentia on Monday, August 11, in Chișinău for influence peddling and are wanted by Moldovan authorities. The two told citizens of the Russian Federation that they had influence over officials at the Romanian Consulate in Odesa and […]
