EximBank and the Agency for Rural Investment Financing (AFIR) signed a collaboration accord to support – by financing eligible companies- the acceleration of the absorption of European funds allocated through the Rural Development National Program (PNDR) over 2021-2022. “We are offering an extensive range of products adapted to the specific and demands of PNDR program, so that eligible end users can access: grant pre - financing credits, credits for co-financing contributions to eligible and not eligible expenses or bank warranty letters to return down payment, “said Traian Halalai, executive president of EximBank, in a press release. In his turn, Mihai Moraru, the general director of AFIR, says this collaboration accord will concretely support PNDR beneficiaries to obtain advantageous credits. EximBank is a specialized institution which is actively involved in supporting and promoting the Romanian business environment. Its financial instruments are devoted exclusively to the corporate segment and can be accessed in advantageous conditions by any type of commercial company, either IMM or a large company, carried out international transactions, or addresses, or addresses the domestic market. AFIR is meant to technically implement the technical and financial PNDR 2020. Until the present, 67828 farms,processors, entrepreneurs and public authorities that concluded financing contracts with AFIR to receive European grants through PNDR 2020. The value of payments made by AFIR, until the present day, to beneficiaries of the program amounts to 7.65 billion euros, which represents a degree of effective absorption of allocated funds of 81.24%. For the transition period of 2021-2022, AFIR has at its disposal funds for agriculture and rural development of 3.28 billion euros.
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 […]
