Romania defeated Austria 1-0 on Sunday night, October 12, at Bucharest’s National Arena in the Group H match of the European qualifiers for the World Cup, with the decisive goal coming in stoppage time. The win keeps Romania’s hopes of qualification alive as they moved up to third place in the group with 10 points.
Romania, coached by veteran Mircea Lucescu, started confidently and created early chances. In the seventh minute, Dennis Man broke down the right and set up Valentin Mihăilă,...
A new online platform promoting Romanian designers and connecting them to the international fashion and design scene will be launched in New York this week. The platform, called Ce Fain! (How Cool! in Romanian) will be officially unveiled at the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in New York on October 17 during an exclusive gala. Ce […]
Nearly half of Romanians believe their country’s army would not be able to resist for 48 hours in the event of an attack, according to a new Avangarde poll quoted by News.ro. The survey also showed...
Energy minister Bogdan Ivan, who promised to come up by the end of last week with an update on the negotiations with the European Commission (EC) on the prolongation of the functioning of several coal-fired power plants, keeps warning of extreme developments under circumstances described as "the perfect storm" this winter. Minister Ivan announced that, […]
Romania was close to having its 2026 EU funding suspended in July, but "we are now in another reality" after the new government took the necessary steps in the past 100 days, finance minister Alexandru Nazare, said upon returning from the October 9-10 EcoFin meeting, without any specific details about his talks on the Commission's […]
Rating agency Fitch, based on Romania’s 2025 budget revision and the macroeconomic forecast predicting muted growth of 0.7% this year rising to 1.2% in 2026 and 2027, projected that the country’s public deficit under ESA methodology would decline from 9.3% last year to 8.5% in 2025, followed by gradual reduction to 7% of GDP in […]
The international rating agency S&P Global Ratings completed and published on October 10 its annual review of Romania's creditworthiness, a review it performs on all sovereign debt issuers. It involves assigning scores to 5-6 key indicators, without constituting an action to modify or maintain the sovereign rating. The country's rating is based on the dimensions assessed […]
