In 2022, Romania managed to absorb 11.3 billion euros in European funds, prime minister Nicolae Ciuca declared on Wednesday, adding that it is the highest level reached since our country has access to these funds."We managed to get through all the challenges we had, the challenges that Romanian citizens have felt. (...) We need the same energy and activity from everyone. (...) We had a good budget execution, we managed to fall within the deficit targets," stated Ciuca.According to him, the Government managed to achieve an economic growth "that no one had predicted at the beginning of the year, especially after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and after the effects produced by the increase in energy and gas prices and the inflation"."There were moments that we managed together, moments for which we found solutions and solved them one by one, but, at the same time, we also managed to design decisions that produce effects over time, which is why it is important to emphasize that we are committed to ensuring the absorption of European funds and all three lines of European financing total approximately 90 billion euros. (...) We managed to fall within the amount that we set as an objective, namely for at least 10 billion to be absorbed per year," explained the prime minister.He recalled that last year Romania undertook to provide the largest amount for investments. "We managed to secure this amount and to spend this money. Although delayed by the increase in the price of construction materials, we finally managed to fit into an absorption process of probably more than 70 percent. We are waiting for the month end figures and we will also announce the nominal value of investment expenditures," added Ciuca.
FlixBus, the travel-tech company operating Europe's largest intercity coach network, announced the launch of its first domestic routes in Romania. Operated in partnership with local carriers, the 10 new intercounty lines will connect over 50 cities, the company said. FlixBus's domestic network includes major routes such as Bucharest–Iași, Constanța–Timișoara, and connections to cities like Satu […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan has called a meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT) to be held on Monday, June 30, at the Cotroceni Palace. The agenda will cover several key issues, including the current state and outlook of the war in Ukraine and its implications for Romania, cybersecurity, and tax evasion. The […]
The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) said that another 35 Romanian citizens and first-degree family members in Israel were evacuated and brought back to the country on Thursday, June 26. The Romanian citizens were brought to the country aboard a C-27J Spartan aircraft of the Romanian Air Forces. “As part of the ongoing complex […]
Smallest Art Fair in Town (SAT), an art fair dedicated to works on paper, will hold a second edition developed around the theme of Interrupted Realities. The works selected for SAT discuss this “acute topic of our times – that of the increasingly fractured reality in which we live,” the organizers explained. The artists whose […]
A Romanian man has been jailed for more than five years after he joined an online chat that supported plans for a terrorist attack in Leeds. Claudiu Stefan Cristea, 47, was found guilty by a jury of possessing a terrorist document following a week-long trial at Leicester Crown Court. He was arrested in February 2024 […]
Play Giurgiu, a festival for children and teenagers, will present a program of films, workshops, and other cultural activities in the southern Romania city of Giurgiu, which lacks a cinema hall. The event, taking place between June 27 and June 29, is organized by the animation festival Animest at the city's Tudor Vianu theater and […]
