PNL (National Liberal Party) first vice chairman Gheorghe Flutur on Thursday informed that the Executive Bureau of this party has unanimously approved that the Liberals' proposal for the position of prime minister be Nicolae Ciuca, this proposal coming from the party leader, Florin Citu."The Executive Bureau of the PNL, at the proposal of the party leader, has unanimously voted Mr. Nicolae Ciuca candidate for prime minister. The proposal came from the party leader," Flutur said at the PNL headquarters.He specified that the Executive Bureau has also voted for Nicolae Ciuca to be the head of the PNL delegation in the negotiations with PSD (Social Democratic Party) and UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania)."There has been another proposal that the head of the delegation to conduct the negotiations for building this government be Nicolae Ciuca, the one who is our candidate prime minister," Flutur added. In turn, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman, Marcel Ciolacu, reiterated, on Thursday, that the social democrats currently have a proposal for prime minister, in the context in which the liberals announced that the National Liberal Party (PNL)'s proposal for the position of prime minister is Nicolae Ciuca."At this moment, PSD has a proposal for prime minister. We are going to negotiations at 16.00 with those from PNL," said Ciolacu, at the PSD headquarters.Asked if PSD could change its decision and accept Ciuca as prime minister, a proposal from the three political parties that will form a governing coalition, Ciolacu said: "At this moment I understand that PNL has another proposal for rotation. (...) Nicolae Ciuca is the PNL proposal."When asked if he has had an agreement with President Klaus Iohannis regarding Nicolae Ciuca for two months, the PSD leader said: "God forbid! I didn't even talk to Mr. Iohannis. Do you think that if I had an agreement with the president we would have stayed in this political crisis for two months? I find it aberrant."
The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
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Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
