Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu underscored at the 13th Asia-Europe (ASEM) Summit the importance of health cooperation among member states, including by strengthening cooperation on vaccines, the Foreign Ministry informs in a release.Bogdan Aurescu expressed Romania's interest for a more active involvement in the region, amid strengthening economic, interpersonal and political ties between Europe and Asia, but also within the framework provided by the EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, with focus on Romania's favorite areas of expertise such as cyber security, disaster management, the law of the sea and the combat of climate change, strengthening resilience.The Foreign Minister emphasized the common approaches to key security challenges in Europe and Asia, highlighting ASEM's potential to provide a platform for identifying diplomatic solutions thereto.In this context, the Romanian top diplomat expressed concern about the deterioration of the human rights situation in Myanmar in the recent months, which affects citizens and the possibilities of providing humanitarian assistance, as well as the peaceful settlement process, in compliance with the rule of law.Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu represented Romania on Thursday and Friday at the 13th Asia-Europe Summit which was organized via video conference by Cambodia, which currently holds the rotating ASEM Presidency.
Deputy prime minister Oana Gheorghiu will lead a working group tasked with reforming Romania's loss-making state-owned companies, prime minister Ilie Bolojan said in an interview with ProTV, as reported by G4media.ro. Her predecessor, Dragos Anastasiu,
Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan, on November 19, in an interview given to ProTV and quoted by Hotnews.ro, explained that the pension-wage cumulation ban will apply only to the so-called special pensions, namely those not based on past contributions, as opposed to all pensions as implied by Social Democrat (PSD) labour...
Statements by Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan about cutting by 10% the total personnel budget for all ministers and other similar contracting units, as opposed to only the central administration of the respective bodies, prompted on November 19 a radical reaction from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and trade unions in the public sector. No […]
Romania’s Ministry of Labour unveiled for public consultations the revised law on magistrates’ pensions, and the government, in a press release, expressed its hope that the approval process, including by the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM), will proceed expeditiously. However, CSM vice president Claudu Sandu has already publicly rejected the law as insufficient. The bill is […]
PPC, the largest power supplier in Greece, also active in Romania with distribution, production, and supply operations after it took over Enel's operations in the country, announced at the Capital Markets Day event investment plans worth EUR 3 billion over the next three years in Romania, according to Economica.net....
The Romanian authorities will prepare framework legislation aimed at smoothing the sale of Lukoil's assets, including Petrotel refinery, according to Digi24, citing sources familiar with the negotiations. Initially, minister of energy Bogdan Ivan said Romania must take...
