Several bear-resistant bins, the first of this type in Romania, were put into use at Băile Tuşnad resort in Transylvania with the intention of keeping bears from rummaging through the leftovers.
Bear-proof shelters, also necessary for human-bear cohabitation in many Romanian towns, have not been installed yet.
"These have been tested on bears in Slovakia, so we no longer have doubts that the bear cannot reach the waste. However, we have to test in the city to see how the community...
Representatives of Romania’s main education trade union federations protested on August 4 for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Ministry of Education and Research, opposing austerity measures introduced under Law 141/2025, which came into force on August 1,
The Declic Community has submitted a petition signed by roughly 90,000 Romanians to the Presidential Administration, calling on president Nicușor Dan to initiate a national referendum on the reform of special pensions. The civic group is demanding that all pensions follow the contributory principle and that the retirement age be the same for all professions, […]
Besides 5.5 GW of installed solar and wind power units already in use, Romania's market regulator ANRE has approved the construction of new units with a combined capacity of nearly 6 GW, which could double the contribution of the green energy (hydro not included) from 20% currently to 40%, according to Ziarul...
Romania’s Ministry of Energy informed on Monday, August 4, that it has authorised OMV Petrom to temporarily use 80,000 tonnes of crude oil and 30,000 tonnes of diesel out of its reserves to offset the effects of refusing two ships carrying a total of 180,000 tonnes of contaminated Azeri crude oil. Minister Bogdan Ivan declared […]
In a first move of this kind on the Romanian capital market, the five investment funds resulted from the mass privatisation scheme in the 90’s – Lion Capital, Evergent Investments, Transilvania Investments, Longshield Investment Group, and Infinity Capital (directly or through subsidiaries) – jointly financed, in full, the EUR 100 million bond issue of real […]
By July 23, the Treasury had borrowed RON 28.93 billion (EUR 5.6 billion) from households this year, a share of 16.7% in the total public financing undertaken by the government to cover the record financing needs, according to data published by the Ministry of Finance and compiled by Cursdeguvernare.ro. The...
