Liberal president Nicolae Ciuca declared on Tuesday that the final document of the European People's Party Congress will request that Romania should become a member with full rights, with road borders, in the Schengen area. “I want to point out that it is not just a friendly statement, but it will be included in the final document of the Congress, requesting that Romania should become a member with full rights, including the road border of the Schengen area,”said Ciuca at a joint press conference with EPP president Manfred Weber. According to Ciuca, Romania has technically fulfilled conditions years ago and continues to do so for full Schengen accession. “Moreover, there are measures with which we do nothing else but strengthen the Schengen area with every connected to the safety of Romanian borders and the safety of EU borders. As a result, I do not think we are talking about compromises, but it is a reality about which we have discusses all the time: we are members of a center-right political family promoting everything connected to freedom, the freedom of movement for Romanians who leave or return to Romnaia, Ciuca said mentioning there are 4 million Romanians working abroad and who have a serious contribution to the GDP of countries where they carry out their activity. Nicolae Ciuca also said that Romanians whould get this right to be able to come home without queuing at border cross points. “Based on talks with European leaders present herem we will have a decision in the final document of the Congress and we will see how Austrian colleagues will vote. We will come with arguments to make them change their decision. It is true that at the moment we do not have a bilateral meeting established yet, but we will do everyhting to convey our messages for what is our right to be members of the Schengen area,”said Ciuca. The EPP Congress is held in Bucharest on Wednesday and Thursday.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
