Premier Nicolae Ciuca had, on Wednesday morning a phone discussion with the premier of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said the government. The discussions aimed at the extension of bilateral relations at the level of economic exchanges, energy and tourism. ‘The Greek premier addressed season greetings and congratulated the prime-minister Nicolae-Ionel Ciuca on taking over the mandate at the leadership of the government. Similarly, the Greek official welcomed the stability installed in Bucarest through the new coalition government. The phone discussion between the two prime-ministers aimed at the bilateral agenda and the interest to extend relations at the level of the economic exchanges, energy and tourism. Similarly, there were mentioned the most recent mutual visits at high level, both parties insisting on the necessity to resume dialogue on the issues of interest, the European positions of the two states being similar in most of the cases’ shows a press release of the government. According to the quoted source, premier Nicolae Ciuca addressed his Greek counterpart the invitation to pay an official visit to Romania. In his turn, the Greek prime-minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis launched the invitation of a trilateral meeting Romania – Bulgaria –Greece in Athens.
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
