The EU’s second largest grain exporter, after France, Romania reached the top in the first half of this trading year, with exports 2.1 times higher than its main competitor. Romania’s exports of common wheat, common wheat flour – grain equivalent, durum wheat, durum wheat flour – grain equivalent, barley and maize amounted to 5.1 million tons in the first half of this marketing year (July 1, 2024-January 5, 2025), placing Romania in first position in the top of the largest exporters in the EU, according to European Commission data. A third (30.8%) of all that the EU exported in the analyzed period, namely 16.5 million tons of cereals, had as its source Romania, which surpassed France by a difference of 2.7 tons. Germany follows, with exports of over 1.7 million tons of cereals, Lithuania, with 1.4 million tons of cereals and Poland, with 1.3 million tons. By type of cereals, Romania is, for the moment, the largest European exporter of wheat, with traders delivering over 3.2 million tons out of 11.1 million tons sold by the EU in total. We are also leaders in barley exports, with deliveries of over 1.3 million tons out of 2.2 million tons. However, in corn, we lost the traditional first place, in favor of Poland. The difference in quantity is small (352,914 tons vs. 348,030 tons). In the 2023/2024 marketing year (1.07.2023-30.06.2024), Romania delivered 30.8% more cereals across the EU borders than in 2022, namely 10.6 million tons, which placed Romania again in second place after France, which marked deliveries of 13.6 million tons. Last marketing year, Romania was the largest exporter of corn, with 2.7 million tons, out of the 3.9 million tons delivered by the EU, and the second largest exporter of common wheat, after France (9 million tons).
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 […]
