Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca declared on Tuesday that gas deposits are currently at 41% capacity, and will reach 80% capacity by November 1."It is a decision at the level of the European Union and each member country must go through winter with 80% storage capacity. At the moment we are a little over 40%, 41%. Our commitment, to ourselves, firstly, and to the European Union is to have 46% in deposits by August 1, 57% by September 1, 66% by October 1 and 80% by November 1," said Nicolae Ciuca, in Constanta.The Prime Minister said that 80% represents the minimum for ensuring the necessary gas quantity during winter."Of course, actions are being taken... Talks are underway in relation to the contract elements with Azerbaijan. We are also talking with the US side for liquefied gas, and we are also talking, because we are not depending on the origin part and the receiving part in our country, but we are also talking about transit areas and we must make it so that we receive the accept from transit countries, such as Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. We also depended on the interconnector between Greece and Bulgaria. I understand that it is finished and that we can more easily discuss about this possibility, that of bringing gas in our country," Ciuca mentioned.
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
