The European Union exported 4.82 million tons of wheat in the first months of 2024-2025 season, 23% less than the 6.25 million tons exported in the same period of the previous season, the European Commission announced on Tuesday, which mentioned however that data were not complete, Reuters informs. Over July 1 – September 8, 2024, Romania was the biggest wheat exporter in EU, with 1.72 million tons, followed by Lithuania (620,000 tons), Bulgaria (550,000 tons), Germany and France (both with 500,000 tons). In the first two months of 2024-2025 season, EU exported 1.321 million tons of barley, on the drop by 34% against the same period of the 2023-2024 season, as well as 184,023 tons of corn, on the drop by 20% annually. Both for barley and corn, Romania was the biggest exporter in EU, with 824,640 tons of barley and 104,169 tons of corn in the first two months of the farming season starting on July 1, 2024. As for imports, EC data show that EU wheat imports remained the same, at 1.373 million tons, while corn imports grew by 20% to 3.848 million tons. Ukraine was the biggest supplier of corn and wheat in EU over July 1 – September 8, 2024, with 2.297 million tons, and 866,658 tons respectively. Among member states, Spain was the largest wheat importer in EU at the beginning of 2024-2025 season, with 810,000 tons. Also Spain was the biggest corn importer in EU, with 1.28 million tons imported in the mentioned period. The European Commission pointed out that export data in France are incomplete since the beginning of 2024, while export and import data for Bulgaria and Ireland are incomplete since the beginning of the 2023-2024 farming year. France is the largest wheat exporter in EU and Bulgaria is an important wheat supplier.
The exhibition RomanIa – Identity representation of traditional dress in art, currently on view at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR), gathers a variety of artistic representations of the traditional blouse ia, from painting and sculpture, to drawing, photography, installation, film, music, posters, fashion, books, albums, and more. It includes works by Henri […]
Over 136,000 non-EU citizens held residence permits for employment in Romania at the end of August this year, most of them coming from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Moldova, and India, and two out of three immigrants live in Bucharest, Ilfov, Constanța, Timiș, and Cluj, according to a study conducted by the Economic and Social Council. […]
Romanian prosecutors conducted house searches in 12 locations in Bucharest and two in Târgu Mureș on Wednesday, November 26, in a case targeting former employees of bankrupt insurer Euroins. Specifically, the searches targeted 10 individuals who held executive management positions within Euroins, as well as the headquarters of legal entities controlled by the Bulgarian shareholders […]
Prices in Bucharest’s premium residential market have doubled over the past few years, reaching record highs amid a severe shortage of supply in the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox said. Areas such as Primăverii, Kiseleff, Aviatorilor, and Dorobanți continue to dominate demand. Over the past 2 or 3 years, prices for premium […]
The Romanian Consulate in New York shared on social media the story of George Pomuț (George Pomutz, born Gheorghe Pomuț), the Romanian-American who facilitated the sale of Alaska to the US. Despite his role in US history, the Romanian is largely unknown today, the Consulate noted. Pomuț was born in the Hungarian town of Gyula, […]
Shares of Cris-Tim Family Holding (BVB: CFH) began trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 26 after an IPO worth RON 454.35 million (EUR 89.3 million) conducted last month. Cris-Tim is now the largest entrepreneurial company in the food sector on the BVB Main Market. The funds raised from institutional and over 8,000 retail […]
