Parliament on Wednesday repeated a vote on a bill concerning President Klaus Iohannis’ request for a national consultative referendum on issues of national concern, eliminating some initial recommendations to the head of state. There were 218 yeas, 11 nays and three abstentions for the new text of the bill. The...
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Healthcare network MedLife has acquired a majority stake in All Clinic, in the Republic of Moldova. This is MedLife’s second transaction outside of Romania after its 2019 takeover of Rózsakert Medical Center Group in Hungary. The deal will allow the Romanian group to get acquainted with a new market and scale its business, it said. […]
Parents are required to pay, on average, nearly RON 10,000 (EUR 2,000) per year for private tutoring, after-school programmes, and educational materials, according to a survey by Save the Children Romania, based on data collected at the end of 2024. Compared to 2021, the average annual cost borne by parents for their children's education has […]
Based on the available polls, an evaluation of the candidate's potential, and considering the dynamics of the electoral debates, three major candidates emerge as main players ahead of the presidential rerun scheduled for May: ruling coalition's candidate Crin Antonescu, the president of far-right party AUR George Simion, and Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan – running as […]
The Romanian government plans to secure RON 8 billion (EUR 1.6 billion) in dividends from state-owned companies in 2024 by mandating a minimum distribution of 90% of net profits to the budget, Profit.ro reported. This measure,...
The gas-fired power plant Mintia, with an initial capacity of 860 GW, will be commissioned in line with the schedule next year and will use natural gas from the Neptun Deep offshore field in 2027, Romanian minister of energy Sebastian Burduja confirmed in a Facebook post. "Today, the second giant generator, weighing almost 800 tons, […]
The capacity of the new wind farms planned to come online in Romania will increase gradually from 380 MW this year to 490 MW in 2025 and 600 MW in 2027, summing up to nearly 1.5 GW over the three-year period, according to Ziarul Financiar quoting WindEurope estimates. In 2024, wind farms with...
