The National Defence Ministry announced on Monday that it is organizing between May 20 and June 27 a new recruitment and selection campaign to fill 4,936 volunteer reservist positions - officers, military foremen, non-commissioned officers, privates and higher-ranked servicemen - in military units throughout the country."Potential applicants can inquire about the stages of the recruitment and selection process, the structures designated to conduct the selection, the military health unit where they will take the medical examination, and the military unit or the training center where they will undergo the initial training program - should they be subject to such training, according to the law, as well as about the advantages of performing military service as a voluntary reservist," the Ministry said.Candidates without military training will be advised regarding the expression of their options, and will be directed towards the positions for which they fulfill the specific criteria related to their education level and the correspondence of their civilian specialization with the respective weapons/services and military specialties, the cited source mentions.
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
