Over 50% of Romanians entitled to vote cast their ballots in the European elections on May 26. The opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) has come out as winner, with 27% of the votes, followed by the governing PSD with a little over 23%. Third came the USR-Plus Alliance, with 22.5% of the votes, with 98% votes in Romania and 80% of the of the votes in the Romanian Diaspora counted on Monday morning. ALDE, the minority member of the governing coalition, does not appear to come above the 5% threshold.
The Environmental Guard has fined Bucharest City Hall RON 100,000 (over EUR 20,000) for failing to implement several environmental measures, particularly regarding air quality and green space management. The sanction follows repeated inspections that revealed the municipality’s failure to comply with previous directives, according to the official announcement. One of the major issues identified is […]
The isolationist far-right candidate, be it George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila, would win the first round of the presidential elections – but not at a wide margin, and either of them would lose in the second round against Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan, according to a poll carried out by AtlasIntel for
The Ministry of Energy has mandated state-controlled Romgaz (BVB: SNG), the largest natural gas producer in Romania, to evaluate the takeover of the largest fertilizer production plant for Romanian agriculture, Azomureș, energy minister Sebastian Burduja said, according to
The integrated steel mill Liberty Galați in Romania, one of the last crude steel producers in the region, will provide raw materials for the Romanian defense industry, announced the minister of economy, Bogdan Ivan,
Romanian households purchased RON 2.2 billion (EUR 440 million) of government bonds denominated in local currency and euros under the March issue of the Fidelis scheme (bonds listed at the Bucharest Exchange), Economica.net...
The net foreign direct investments (FDI) to Romania contracted by 53% y/y to EUR 538 million in January, resulting in a total of EUR 5.1 billion (-28% y/y) in 12 months to the end of the month, according to data published by the central bank BNR. Out of the FDI in the 12 months to […]
