Romania's objective is to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2026, the Secretary General of the Government, Mircea Abrudean, said on Saturday at the Forum of Small Towns in Romania.He emphasised that, after Romania's accession to the European Union and NATO, integration into the OECD is "the most important country objective," and, when our country will become a member of this organization, "small towns will be able to benefit directly from the expertise and know-how of cities from other member states" and "they will be able to take from the methods and solutions of innovative public services.""The greatest benefit of joining the OECD is represented by foreign direct investments. Any investor will have the guarantee of a performing economy and an administration at the highest standards of efficiency. You need investments the most, because they bring development, jobs of work and well-being," said Abrudean.On the other hand, he believes that "too little is said in Romania" about the subject of joining the OECD, even though it is about "an elite club of world economies.""We are talking about 38 countries, with the world's strongest economies, which, together, represent over 70% of global trade and services and over 90% of foreign direct investments. (...) To make a idea of what the credibility and guarantee of OECD standards means for investors, Romania officially opened the process of joining this forum in January 2022. The total of foreign direct investments in 2022 was almost 11 billion euros, a record figure, higher by two billion euros than in 2008, the historical year of reference until that moment, for foreign direct investments," added the Secretary General of the Government.
The demand for logistics and industrial spaces reached 575,000 sqm during the first 9 months of this year, a decrease of 20% compared with the same period of 2023, according to a report by real estate consulting company Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. The figures for Q3 2024 reveal that 164,000 square meters were contracted, a […]
Dutch classical music star André Rieu will return to Romania for two concerts at BTarena in Cluj-Napoca on November 13 and 14, 2025. Rieu’s concerts in Romania, where he enjoys a high degree of popularity, have set multiple attendance records. In 2015 and 2016, he performed nine sold-out shows in Bucharest’s Constitution Square for over […]
Till Lindemann, the frontman of famous German rock band Rammstein, will embark on his "Meine Welt" tour across European arenas in the fall of 2025. Among his stops he is scheduled to perform in Romania on December 4, 2025, at Romexpo in Bucharest, as announced on his official website. The "Meine Welt" tour will take […]
HR Summit, one of the most important events dedicated to the human resources industry in Transylvania, will take place under the theme Shifting Priorities: Talent, Technology, and Trust, on Friday, November 22, at Radisson Blu Hotel in Cluj-Napoca. This year's edition of HR Summit focuses on leadership, employee well-being, the introduction of innovative...
Fourteen Central and Eastern European startups (CEE) have been selected for the first edition of the Impact Creators accelerator, Impact Hub Bucharest and PurposeTech announced. The application period attracted 133 proposals from 18 countries. The startups will participate in an intensive program to accelerate their businesses, which will end with a Pitch Day. The most […]
The immersive art museum MINA Cluj will host a special event featuring Dumitru Prunariu, the only Romanian who flew in space. Scheduled for November 24, the event will give the public the opportunity to hear the stories directly from the one who represented Romania in the Soyuz 40 mission in 1981, carried out as part […]
