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.
The fund Cultura Face Bine, a national funding mechanism for cultural projects backed by private-sector financing, will begin supporting local cultural organizations in 2026. The fund aims to support grassroots cultural initiatives with a proven impact in their communities and which need resources to continue, develop, or transform their activities. The funding mechanism has been […]
The European Commission (EC) announced on Thursday, December 11, that it is referring Romania to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failing to meet obligations under Ambient Air Quality Directives. According to the Commission, Romania has not ensured that its national air quality monitoring network complies with legally required standards on […]
The Bucharest Court of Appeal (CAB) held an unprecedented press conference on Thursday, December 11, in response to allegations raised in a recent media investigation published by Recorder, with court president Liana Arsenie firmly rejecting the claims. However, at the start of the press event, a judge from within the institution publicly stated that the […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued its first response to the Recorder documentary alleging systemic manipulation within the justice system, calling the investigation an amplification of a “campaign to destabilize judicial authority.” The council said on Thursday, December 11, that it will evaluate what measures need to be taken following the report. In a […]
MedLife, Romania’s largest private medical services network, announced on Wednesday, December 10, that it reached a market capitalization of EUR 1 billion on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). The milestone secures its position as “the most valuable healthcare company” in the country. The achievement came nine years after MedLife’s listing on BVB in December 2016, […]