European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi will be in Bucharest on Thursday for meetings with President Klaus Iohannis.According to the Presidential Administration, the head of the state will receive Ursula von der Leyen at the Cotroceni Palace at 10:00. The two will have one-on-one talks and official talks, and will deliver joint press statements at the end.Next, President Iohannis has a meeting with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi scheduled at noon. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi will be in Bucharest on Thursday for meetings with President Klaus Iohannis, Crown Custodian, Her Majesty Margareta, and Secretary of State for Home Affairs and Head of the Emergency Department Raed Arafat.The UN High Commissioner's visit to Romania comes a day after the latest UN Refugee Report was published. According to the latest report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, posted on its website on Wednesday, the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine to neighboring countries in the face of the Russian invasion has risen even further, reaching almost 836,000 people in March 1.
Sebastian Burduja, adviser to prime minister Ilie Bolojan and former minister of energy, warned of the security impact of the sale of major dairy Napolact to a group owned by a businessman close to the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, according to
Romania could face energy poverty or even blackouts if coal-fired power plants are shut down before new gas-fired facilities at Iernut and Mintia are completed, energy minister Bogdan Ivan said in an interview with Digi24 on September...
Premier Energy (BVB: PE) has signed an agreement to acquire a 51% controlling stake in Iberdrola Renovables Magyarország, the Hungarian subsidiary of Spain’s Iberdrola. The company owns five operational wind farms with a combined installed capacity of 158 MW, commissioned between 2008 and 2010 in northwestern Hungary, one of Central Europe’s strongest wind regions. The […]
Prime minister Ilie Bolojan set up a committee to follow the pre-insolvency procedures at steelmaker Liberty Galati and its pipemaker subsidiary, Liberty Tubular Products Galati, controlled by billionaire Sanjev Gupta, and protect the rights of the tax collection agency ANAF and Exim Banca Romaneasca as the largest creditors,
Grampet Group, active in railway transportation, through its newly established subsidiary Biturom, has opened the largest bitumen melting capacity in Romania, according to Economica.net. The new facility, designed to deliver liquid bitumen for road construction projects in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, was opened on the industrial platform Rafo Onesti. ...
Romania plans to issue Samurai bonds and contract loans from multilateral banks such as EBRD or EIB to finance other green projects, finance minister Alexandru Nazare said at the CES ESG Conference 2025 in Bucharest on September 18. The country has already issued almost RON 10.8 billion (EUR 2 billion) in green bonds, allocated to […]
