Virgil Popescu, the energy minister announced on Tuesday, following a meeting with the ambassador of Qatar, the interest of the company Qatar Electricity& Water to invest in Romania. “Today we had a work meeting with His Excellency Osama Yousef Abdullah Alqaradawi, the Ambassador of the state of Qatar in Romania. We discussed about the intensification and diversification of relations between the two countries, the stage and prospects of the bilateral relation at economic and business level, as well as the development of bilateral cooperation in fields of mutual interest”, Virgil Popescu wrote on Facebook. The minister points out that Qatar Electricity & Water, one of the biggest company in the field of producing electricity and water desalination in the Middle East, is interested in investing in the Romanian market in concrete projects in the energy field. “We pointed out that states in the Gulf area represent energy players with important potential at global level in the perspective of securing energy supply. Qatar is a country with important natural gas resources and one of the main world producers of liquid natural gas used in producing energy,”the minister showed.
Almost half (45%) of births to mothers under the age of 15 in the European Union (EU) states come from Romania, where one in ten newborns has a teenage mother, according to a recent study by Save the Children. Although only 4.59% of births in the EU were from Romania in 2022, the percentage grows […]
The mayor of Bucharest’s District 1, Clotilde Armand, is facing serious legal implications after she was indicted. Prosecutors have accused her of self-appointing as the manager of an anti-corruption project, a move that allegedly led to an increase in her monthly allowance. The case was opened following a complaint by the National Integrity Agency, which […]
Nearly two-thirds of the respondents to a recent INSCOP survey believe that Romania met all the criteria also to join the Schengen area with its land borders, but some states block the country’s full accession for economic reasons,
Central and Eastern European startup nPloy has expanded its job posting offering with remote, location-flexible jobs in the technology industry to over 1,000 remote posts provided by more than 100 global tech companies, such as GitLab, Brevo, Airalo, Binance, AngelList, Polygon, Kraken, and Zapier. "And from what we see in the last few weeks since we […]
In the day when the opening of Arges Mall in Pitesti (April 25) brought the third Mcdonald's and also the third KFC fast food restaurant in the city, as well as a long array of fashion outlets such as Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, Reserved, House, Cropp, Sinsay,...
Romania’s leading financial group Banca Transilvania (BVB: TLV) announced that its shareholders endorsed the disbursement of RON 1 billion (EUR 200 million) as dividends, out of last year’s RON 2.5 billion net profit, at a gross yield of 4.4% based on the most recent trading price. The shareholders also approved a capital increase by the […]
