The Bucharest Chamber of Trade and Industry (CCIB), in partnership with Poland-Romania Bilateral Chamber of Trade and Industry, organized CCIB Business Opportunity Day with Poland. The event represented a platform for dialogue and exchange of opportunities between Romanian and Polish businessmen, focused mainly on the consolidation of bilateral economic relations and identifying new cooperations directions. The businss meeting took place in the context of the official visit made by the delegation of Silesian Voivodeship, organized by Upper Silesian Fund, which gathered innovating companies in the area. The latter are functioning in fields of strategic interest fields like smart city technologies and transport, IT and cloud solutions, retail, logistics, food industry, lab research and health, as well as in the manufacture of equipment and technological lines for various industrial branches. “Poland remains one of Romania's most important commercial partners in EU. In 2024, bilateral commercial exchanges reached 11.72 billion euro, marking an increase of 6.12% compared to 2023 and establishing a new record. Romanian exports to Poland amounted to 3.71 billion euro (+8.51%), while imports from Poland were 8 billion euros (+5.05%). CCIB reasserts its engagement in backing the consolidation of these relations by setting up concrete partnership opportunities and facilitating access to the markets of the two states,” said CCIB chairman Iuliu Stocklosa. Besides Romanian and Polish businessmen, the event was attended by representatives of the Polish Embassy to Romania, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Romanian Agency for Investments and foreign Trade (ARICE), support institutions for business and companies in fields of interest.
Participation in cultural education activities continues to be limited, with the main barriers being difficult access, insufficient knowledge, and cost, the recently released Cultural Consumption Barometer 2024 shows. The report showed that many Romanians still associate culture with entertainment rather than with personal development or furthering their knowledge. The need for relaxation dominates in cultural […]
Roughly 84% of Romanians say that the pace of the state’s digitalization is slow or very slow, according to an Edge Institute & AtlasIntel study presented at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, which took place on Tuesday, November 25, at the presidential palace in Bucharest. The survey aims to capture the way citizens relate to […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
