The 19 hospitals within the Bucharest Hospitals and Medical Services Administration and 38 hospitals in Paris can initiate exchanges of experience, best practices and personnel and will be able to carry out joint professional training and research projects following a partnership signed between the two institutions."The Bucharest Hospitals and Medical Services Administration (ASSMB) and Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP) signed, for the first time, a framework agreement for international cooperation, which paves the way for an open and direct partnership between the 19 hospitals within ASSMB and the 38 university hospitals administered by AP-HP. The document, which marks a historic moment in the relations between the medical communities of the two capitals, was signed by Oana Sivache, deputy general director of ASSMB, and Florence Veber, director of the delegation for international relations at the AP-HP," informs ASSMB in a press release.In this context, the two institutions express their intention to establish and develop collaborative projects in the healthcare, clinical research, professional training and hospital management.ASSMB and AP-HP will intensively promote the exchange of best practices and personnel between the hospitals they manage, especially in areas such as general surgery, transplant surgery, hematology, addiction, pediatric and adult oncology.
Participation in cultural education activities continues to be limited, with the main barriers being difficult access, insufficient knowledge, and cost, the recently released Cultural Consumption Barometer 2024 shows. The report showed that many Romanians still associate culture with entertainment rather than with personal development or furthering their knowledge. The need for relaxation dominates in cultural […]
Roughly 84% of Romanians say that the pace of the state’s digitalization is slow or very slow, according to an Edge Institute & AtlasIntel study presented at the Digital Governance Summit 2025, which took place on Tuesday, November 25, at the presidential palace in Bucharest. The survey aims to capture the way citizens relate to […]
Romania’s Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) issued a negative opinion on the new bill regarding magistrates’ pensions. The move is only the latest development concerning a heated issue that led to tensions between the executive and the judiciary branch. CSM’s opinion is consultative, and the government led by Ilie Bolojan can still take responsibility for […]
Romania took the presidency of the Central European Initiative (or CEI) on Wednesday, November 26, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). The organization is a regional intergovernmental forum established in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. It gathers 17 Member States in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe […]
Trade between Romania and Poland continues to grow, with annual bilateral exchanges in goods now valued at more than EUR 12 billion, according to figures presented by the Polish-Romanian Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PRBCC). The data was released during a reception in Bucharest marking Poland’s Independence Day and Romania’s National Day. Polish investments […]
As Romania moves closer to implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, local employers are preparing for one of the most consequential shifts in workplace regulation in over a decade. The directive, set for transposition by June 2026, introduces strict new rules on salary disclosure, pay reporting, and equal-pay verification, aiming to close persistent gender gaps […]
