Nine foreign citizens suspected of terrorist actions were declared personae non gratae this year and removed from the national territory by decisions of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, at the proposition of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), other 246 persons being stopped at the border for the same reasons, the SRI spokesman Ovidiu Marincea said. The foreign citizens rejected at the border and declared unwelcome were mainly from Iraq, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, of whom rd 70pct were in connection to or had performed activities for the Islamic State. The number of the persons who are not allowed to enter Romania is on an uptrend, the SRI official added, and this is due to the preventive active measures which both the SRI and the partner services have forged to dilute the risks generated by the phenomena represented by the foreign fighters/returnees. The SRI spokesman specified that given the current security context in Europe, based on the data so far, the National Alert System stays put at cautious blue. "In parallel, the SRI is considering and acts to speeding up the information swap within the cooperation with both its national partners with the SNPCT (National System for Preventing and Combating Terrorism), and its partner services, so that our institution contributes to the approaches at national, international level for the defence of the democratic values," the SRI spokesman concluded.
The 19th Gopo Awards Gala, celebrating the achievements of Romanian cinema, will take place on April 29 in Bucharest, according to an announcement by the Romanian Film Promotion Association. A total of 38 feature films, including fiction and documentaries released in 2024, have met the eligibility criteria and are now in the running for nominations. […]
NXP Semiconductors N.V. secured a EUR 1 billion loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the company’s research, development, and innovation (RDI) projects in Austria, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Romania. The financing will support NXP’s RDI projects aimed at various end markets including automotive, Industrial, and Internet of Things (IoT) for the period […]
Bucharest's two main airports, namely the Henri Coandă International Airport and Aurel Vlaicu Bucharest-Băneasa International Airport, recorded air traffic of over 16 million passengers in 2024, an increase of 9.22% compared to 2023. Additionally, there were 134,700 aircraft movements (landings and takeoffs), up 4.75% from 2023, according to data from the Bucharest National Airports Company […]
Romanian tennis player Jaqueline Cristian, ranked 82nd in the world, advanced to the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday, January 16, after defeating Italy's Lucia Bronzetti in two sets 7-5, 7-5. The match lasted two hours and four minutes, according to News.ro. This marks the...
The corporate branch in Romania of PKO Bank Polski, the leader of the Polish banking system, will begin its operational activity on the local market in 2025, according to Ziarul Financiar. The Romanian daily announced in October 2023 that PKO Bank, the largest bank in Poland, with assets equivalent to 70%...
The Romanian Ministry of Energy announced that it notified the Foreign Direct Investment Review Commission (CEISD) regarding the transaction through which Hungary's state-owned energy group MVM intends to acquire the gas and electricity supply division of E.ON Energie Romania,...
