Romania received a warning on Wednesday for failing to fully comply with the Landfill and Waste Framework Directives despite having already been fined by the European Court of Justice in December, euractiv.com informs. According to the Commission, Romania has successfully closed and rehabilitated 92 landfills and plans to address five more by 2026-2028. However, the situation for four others remains uncertain despite ambitious targets to send less than 10% of municipal solid waste generated to landfills by 2035. Environment, Water and Forests Minister Mircea Fechet has stressed the urgency of closing or rehabilitating at least 31 hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste sites to avoid EU fines. During a site visit to Sofert Bacau, a 16-hectare dangerous waste landfill in north-eastern Romania, Fechet highlighted the daily fines of €18,000 incurred by this site alone, which has been storing hazardous phosphogypsum industrial waste since communist times. Today, a significant amount of recyclable material still ends up in landfills rather than in factories, while Romania is still unable to control waste imports, the minister said in an earlier statement. On 14 December, the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) imposed a fine of €1.5 million on Romania, along with daily penalties of €600, for delays in closing non-compliant waste dumps. The CJEU noted that the failure to fulfil obligations has lasted more than four years since 2018, described as “a considerable duration”. In addition, the CJEU pointed to “a significant risk of pollution and serious consequences for human health, in particular through the release of harmful chemicals into soil, air and water”.
Romania’s population could reach 14.36 million people in 2080, down from slightly over 19 million in 2025, which would mean a reduction of 4.6 million people, or almost a quarter of the population, according to an analysis carried out by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) in the study ‘Projection of Romania’s active population by […]
Daniel Băluță, the Social Democrats' (PSD) candidate for the general mayor elections in Bucharest scheduled for December 7, and the independent candidate supported by isolationist party AUR, Anca Alexandrescu, lead in the voting intentions of Bucharest residents, separated by only 0.1% percentage points, according to an opinion poll conducted by the AtlasIntel institute for
Grampet–GFR owner Gruia Stoica has signed a joint venture agreement with Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Shandong to develop a new freight wagon factory in Hungary, industry sources told Club Feroviar. The agreement was concluded last week during Stoica’s visit to China, according to the publication. ...
The Romanian government is examining amendments to the Oil Law that would allow the Trident offshore perimeter in the Black Sea, held 87.5% by Lukoil, to return to state ownership or be taken over by project partner Romgaz, which holds the remaining 12.5%,
The Canadian company Eldorado Gold has agreed to the sale of the Romanian gold mining project Certej, in Hunedoara County, for a total amount of up to USD 30 million, Profit.ro...
Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH), the market leader in cold cuts and ready meals in Romania, reported revenues of RON 853.1 million (EUR 170 million) for the first nine months of 2025, a 3% y/y increase, supported by 5% growth in the Cold Cuts segment and a strong 21% advance in ready meals. Profitability improved […]
