President of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) Toni Grebla announced that the campaign for Romania's legislative elections starts on Friday, November 1, and will end on November 30 at 7:00 a.m., noting that all candidates must replace their pre-campaign promotional materials with those accepted by the law for this period.According to Grebla, approximately 21,000,000 ballot papers for each the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will be printed for the vote in the country, and 3,069,600 for overseas voting. There will also be 6,656 postal ballot papers for each chamber of Parliament.Grebla specified that the Central Electoral Bureau approved on Wednesday all the candidate lists submitted by the political contenders, so that the drawing of lots are next to be organized at the county electoral offices to determine the candidates' order on the ballots, and the electoral ballot templates be finalized."The list of the 950 polling stations approved for out-of-country voting is available on the website of the Permanent Electoral Authority and, probably, during the day it will be published in the Official Journal; it will also be posted for certain on the website of the Foreign Affairs Ministry," Grebla added.The AEP head also specified that over 7,000 electoral experts are entered in the dedicated Roster, and that there are sufficient human resources for election activities to unfold smoothly.Grebla said that AEP owns the entire IT infrastructure for running the elections and the necessary measures were duly taken to install "the latest equipment for filtering out cyber fraud attempts."
Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan stated during an interview on Wednesday, December 17, that there should be no statute of limitations in cases of serious corruption. The statement comes after a Recorder investigation, which showed that several heads of the major institutions in the Romanian justice system allegedly delayed trials for years until wrongdoings were […]
President Nicușor Dan has challenged, before the Constitutional Court (CCR), the constitutionality of the law that requires that at least 40% of the athletes who play on a team in official national competitions be Romanian. Dan noted that the law violates the principle of non-discrimination and the free movement of workers, enshrined both in the […]
Craiova International Airport will open its new passenger terminal on Thursday, December 18, completing a major infrastructure investment aimed at significantly expanding capacity and improving air connectivity in southwestern Romania. It is part of a broader expansion and modernization project financed through the Large Infrastructure Operational Programme (POIM) 2014–2020, with a total value exceeding EUR […]
Romania is set to be connected to the Western European energy network thanks to grid investments worth EUR 30 billion. The funds will be provided by the EU by 2035, and the project will link Romania to Hungary and Austria in a joint project. Romanian energy minister Bogdan Ivan signaled the signing of the new […]
Franck Bagouet has been appointed managing director of TotalEnergies Marketing Romania SA and managing director of Automotive Southeast Europe Hub TotalEnergies Marketing. He succeeds Didier Grimault, who has accepted a new position within the TotalEnergies company. “I am glad to join this dynamic affiliate and confident that, together with our talented team, we will reinforce […]
Databricks, the data analytics and artificial intelligence company co-founded by Romanian professors Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia, announced on Tuesday, December 16, that it is raising USD 4 billion in funding at a valuation of USD 134 billion, according to CNBC. The new valuation represents a 34% increase compared to the August round, when Databricks […]
