The interim President of the Senate, Mircea Abrudean, will pay an official visit to France from March 31 to April 1, according to an internal memorandum approved on Monday by the Senate's leadership.According to the document, Abrudean will meet the President of the French Senate, Gerard Larcher, and the OECD Secretary-General, Mathias Cormann."The program of the visit will also include meetings with local authorities and the diaspora. The visit is part of the bilateral actions carried out between the Romanian Senate and the Senate of the French Republic, which aim to complement and strengthen the existing Strategic Partnership between the two countries, especially in the light of the current economic and security situation in Europe," the document reads.Following this visit, Mircea Abrudean will travel to Malaga (Kingdom of Spain) to take part in the Forum on the Future of the Mediterranean on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (April 2-4).
The United States has temporarily suspended the implementation of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) for Romanian citizens as it conducts a review of Romania’s recent designation into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the review is aimed at ensuring compliance with the VWP’s security requirements. […]
A team of students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FSEGA) at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca won the gold medal at the 29th edition of the international economics case study competition titled ‘NIBS Worldwide Case Competition.’ The competition held in Nanchang, China, brought together 16 university teams from 13 countries, qualified through […]
Metrorex, the public authority managing Bucharest’s subway system, will install protective panels on platforms, starting with the Line 4 (Gara de Nord 2 - Gara Progresul) currently under construction, Profit.ro reported. The new stations will be equipped...
Romania has the lowest budget allocation for research among European Union (EU) member states, according to the latest infographic published by the Social Monitor, a project of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Romania. In 2023, Romania allocated just...
Pavel Popescu, the vice president of media regulator ANCOM, said in an interview with Politico published March 24 that Romania is fighting an information war with Russia to stop election meddling, and not censoring speech, as many US officials and figures like Elon Musk have said. The Politico article names Romania “ground zero in a […]
More than 2,300 military personnel from Romania and 11 allied nations, namely Albania, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Turkey, will take part in the multinational military exercise Sea Shield 25, set to take place from March 31 to April 11. Training sessions will be conducted […]
