The Foreign Ministry (MAE) welcomes the approval by the Senate, as a decision-making chamber, of the draft law for the ratification of the Agreement on the implementation of the technical and financial assistance program based on a non-reimbursable financial aid of 100 million euros granted by Romania to the Republic of Moldova.According to the MAE, the agreement signed by the Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca, and the Republic of Moldova's Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, on February 11, in Chisinau, during the joint meeting of those two governments, will be a main instrument through which Romania will grant, during the following seven years, support to the Republic of Moldova in its efforts for sustainable development and advancement on the path of reforms and integration into the European Union.Based on the projects financed by the agreement, Romania will participate in strengthening the resilience of the Republic of Moldova in sectors essential to society such as energy, transport and transport infrastructure, environmental protection and combating climate change, public works and infrastructure, small and medium enterprises, independent media, public administration reform, home affairs, health, education, culture and heritage, research, tourism, competitiveness and industry.The MAE states that the agreement signed on February 11 will take over and amplify the functions of the agreement between the two governments on the technical and financial assistance program based on a non-reimbursable financial aid of 100 million euros granted by Romania to the Republic of Moldova, signed on April 27, 2010 and expired on March 28, 2021. The 2010 agreement allowed Romania to finance some emblematic projects, such as the rehabilitation and modernization of over 1,000 kindergartens and schools in the Republic of Moldova or to ensure a contribution to the development of the Iasi-Chisinau gas pipeline, a strategic energy interconnection project between Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
