* The European Commission pays REPowerEU pre-financing to Romania, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia and Spain under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. Today, 25 January, the European Commission paid the following pre-financing amounts related to REPowerEU funds under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF): EUR 145,1 million to Belgium and EUR 585.1 million to Croatia in the form of grants and loans; EUR 20.9 million to Cyprus, EUR 25.4 million to Finland, EUR 158,7 million to Greece, EUR 551.2 million to Italy, EUR 26.9 million to Latvia, EUR 288 million to Romania in the form of grants and EUR 340 million to Spain in the form of loans. These pre-financing will help accelerate the implementation of the main investment and reform measures presented in each REPowerEU chapter. This will accelerate the achievement of the objectives of the REPOwerEU plan for energy saving, clean energy production and diversification of energy supply, with the aim of making Europe independent of Russian fossil fuels following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Payments made today follow the approval by the Council of the revised plans of these countries, which include a chapter on REPowerEU, and the signing of the financial agreements. Pre-financing, paid in one or two stages, represents up to 20 % of the additional funds requested to finance each country’s REPowerEU chapter. If the pre-financing is paid in two stages, the second part must be paid within 12 months of the payment of the first part.
TikTok has launched an Election Center dedicated to Romania's upcoming elections as part of its broader effort to protect "the integrity of the platform" and promote access to reliable information. The initiative is supported by a new media literacy campaign and ongoing collaboration with more than 20 fact-checking partners, the company said in a statement. […]
Romanian acting president Ilie Bolojan met on Friday, April 25, with a delegation from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or ODIHR, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), according to a statement from the presidential administration. The acting president told the delegation that Romania "is faithful to democratic principles […]
Shareholders of Romanian oil company OMV Petrom recently approved the distribution of record dividends amounting to RON 2.8 billion (EUR 562.6 million) for the 2024 financial year, as well as the 2025 budget, which provides for investments of RON 8.1 billion (EUR 1.6 billion). The decision was taken during the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meetings […]
The 2025 edition of the European Film Festival (FFE), which takes place this year in Bucharest and nine other cities, will screen more than 40 feature films, 28 of which are national premieres. The festival will also present two selections of short films, also screened as national premieres. Among them are 11 documentaries, 13 films […]
Update: The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official press release that the Romanian citizen was initially detained in the Abkhazia region four months ago and was later transferred to Sochi, Russia. "Steps have already been taken to provide consular protection and assistance with the central and local authorities, in accordance with international regulations," […]
Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, said on Friday, April 25, that it arrested a 23-year-old Romanian citizen on suspicion of spying for Ukraine by sharing the locations of Russian air defense systems. The unnamed man is accused of collecting and transmitting information about air defense sites in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to […]
