More than 2,900 Ukrainian citizens have been employed in Romania since the outbreak of the war, Labour Minister Marius Budai said on Friday.According to him, as of Thursday, 5,250 active contracts of Ukrainian citizens were registered in the databases of the Ministry of Labour, of which 2,919 are contracts that started on February 24 or later.Most of the Ukrainian refugees, 905, were employed in the manufacturing industry. Another 457 Ukrainians have found jobs in constructions, while 314 work in administrative and support services.Also, 284 refugees from Ukraine work in hotels and restaurants, and 270 in trade.By counties, the majority of refugees, 804, work in Bucharest, 261 in Bistrita, 218 in Arad and 203 in Timis. În turn, Minister Education Sorin Cimpeanu announced on Friday that a number of 2,577 refugee pupils and preschoolers from Ukraine have applied to be registered as attendees in Romania's schools and kindergartens, with almost 2,379 of these already distributed.According to him, out of the 2,577 children who applied, 969 are preschoolers and 1,608 pupils.As of Friday, 2,379 of them had already been distributed / enrolled - 938 preschoolers and 1,441 pupils.
The Association of Romania's Wood Industry (AIL) accuses Greenpeace and Agent Green of attacking the entire wood processing industry with no grounds, furthermore misleadingly using specific terms to magnify the impact of its rhetoric in the international media. The two NGOs cultivate confusion between the term "old forests" (a legally undefined term) and the term […]
After a 13-hour debate on April 22/23, the two parties of Romania’s ruling coalition abandoned their preliminary joint candidate for the key local elections in Bucharest, Catalin Cirstoiu, skipped joint plan B and plan C announced by the Liberals (PNL) at the end of last week, and decided to appoint individual candidates for the Bucharest […]
Eurowind Energy, a Danish developer and operator of wind, solar, and hybrid projects, contracted a EUR 65.33 million loan sourced in equal parts by Erste Group Bank and its Romanian subsidiary BCR for the construction of the Pecineaga wind farm, with a total capacity of 48 MW. Pecineaga wind farm involves a total investment volume […]
CTP, the largest owner of warehouses in the country, plans to end the year with a portfolio of 3.1 million sqm after the takeover of part of Globalworth's portfolio and projects of about 240,000 to be developed. The company's portfolio was 2.6 million sqm before the EUR 170 million takeover. "We are planning this year, […]
Julius Meinl Living announced the completion of the acquisition of the Ambassador hotel in downtown Bucharest, with an area of 12,600 sqm. The hotel is to be opened under the name "The Julius Bucharest" in 2027 after an extensive renovation process that will result in 158 luxury rooms and apartments, according to a company press […]
Romania's courier company Sameday, the operator of the easybox locker network part of the eMAG group, announced it is taking over the Hungarian courier firm Sprinter to strengthen the network of out-of-home delivery points. "The deal brings together Sprinter's decades of solid local market knowledge and service culture with Sameday, a dynamic and constantly growing […]
