Government spokesman Mihai Constantin announced that the Government in the extraordinary meeting on Friday adopted the emergency ordinance that triggers the process of organising simultaneously local and European Parliament elections on June 9."The election period for the June 9 elections will start on March 12, 2024, and will end within three days of the publication of the election results in the Official Journal," he told a press conference at the Victoria Palace.Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) President Toni Grebla said that the AEP was a co-author, along with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the drafting of the ordinance."If the two types of elections, the elections for the European Parliament and the local elections, had been organised separately, we would still have needed a normative act, an emergency ordinance, because in the meantime technical changes have occurred that made it necessary to regulate those areas. One of the changes concerns the organisation of voting abroad. The idea of those additional lists that were written in pen and signed by those who voted was abandoned. We now use the computerised system for monitoring voter turnout," said Toni Grebla.
Romania is set to bring high-speed internet to nearly 1,000 remote localities as part of a EUR 94 million investment under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). Economy, digitalization, entrepreneurship, and tourism minister Bogdan Ivan signed the financing agreements on Wednesday, March 5. The project will enable the expansion of fiber-optic networks to 994 […]
On Thursday, March 6, Romanian prosecutors at the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) detained six individuals, including a retired general aged 100, accusing them of organized crime and treason. Two of the defendants traveled to Moscow in January and allegedly negotiated with Russian agents for Romania’s withdrawal from NATO. According to the […]
Without an explicit source, an online petition was launched for the presidential candidacy of acting president Ilie Bolojan. Launched by the user "Ilie," the petition was signed by 4,258 on the first day, G4media.ro reported. The author of the petition seems to come from...
Two polls released on March 5 in Romania support the idea that the ruling coalition formed by Liberals (PNL), Social Democrats (PSD), and Hungarian party UDMR should not replace its presidential candidate Crin Antonescu. The polls were published as Antonescu's position as a presidential candidate seems at risk: on the one hand, his scores in […]
The Romanian authorities have declared the military, air, and naval attaché of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, as well as his deputy, persona non grata on Romanian territory, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) announced on March 5. MAE claims that two Russian diplomats have carried out activities that contravene the provisions of the Vienna […]
Garanti BBVA, one of the most dynamic banks in Romania, announced it is granting long-term financing worth EUR 10 million to support the development of the National Golf & Country Club in Dâmbovița County, developed by DM Sport & Energy. With a total value of EUR 30 million, this is a sports and leisure project […]
