Romania's Minister of Home Affairs Catalin Predoiu and Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on Tuesday signed an agreement amending a previous agreement between Romania and Hungary, initially signed in Szeged on October 21, 2008, regarding co-operation between the two countries in preventing and combatting cross-border crime."The new agreement will strengthen police co-operation between Romania and Hungary, supplementing the provisions of the 2008 agreement, which is already a very useful tool for specialists from both countries. The new rules provide for more frequent meetings between representatives of the two countries as part of a Joint committee established by the 2008 agreement, in order to respond quickly to the new needs and trends in the fight against crime, including amidst Romania's accession to the Schengen area," Romania's Ministry of Home Affairs reports.Szijjarto was on a visit to Bucharest to participate in a ministerial meeting of the quadrilateral Romania-Hungary-Azerbaijan-Georgia co-operation on a strategic partnership in the area of green energy development and transmission.Predoiu highlighted an active dialogue between the two ministries in charge with home affairs in Romania and Hungary, as well as the fact that he and his Hungarian counterpart Sandor Pinter are sharing the same points of view regarding the very efficient co-operation between the two ministries."The two dignitaries stressed that the objective of eliminating controls at internal land borders remains a priority of Romanian and Hungarian authorities, who have already successfully taken a series of measures to face the new operational challenges, so that the implementation of the second stage of Schengen accession goes smoothly. All these steps have resulted in a decrease in the figures on illegal migration, and the relevant authorities will continue to cooperate within the same parameters."Predoiu also mentioned a constant dialogue between Romania and other EU member states on this subject, stressing that it is particularly important for Romania to approve a decision to eliminate control at internal land borders by the end of 2024.
The local currency kept losing ground on May 9 despite reported interventions by the central bank. The interest rates rose, and the Stock Exchange’s indices resumed the decline on May 9 after a modest gain on the previous day. The development suggests a drain on liquidity from the money market, possibly amid hybrid interventions by […]
Ilie Bolojan, the interim president of Romania, has sent his "warmest congratulations" to Pope Leo XIV in a message posted on X. "Warmest congratulations to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV upon the election to the Chair of Saint Peter. May he have a long reign and guide the faithful all over the world with wisdom […]
Victor Ponta, who served as Romania’s prime minister between 2012 and 2015, announced on Wednesday, May 7, that he is founding a party under the name "Romania First.” The platform will bring together PRO Romania, the party he founded after leaving the center-left Social Democratic Party, with the Romanian Ecologist Party, and other specialists and […]
Romania will receive CHF 10 million in funding for the development of dual education, as part of a second Swiss contribution, the Switzerland - Romania Chamber of Commerce (CCE-R) announced. The funding is part of a program for the development of dual education that aims to support the integration of young people into the labor […]
The Romanian Parliament approved a draft law that increases the amount of punishment for unauthorized operations with pyrotechnic articles on Wednesday, May 7. Initiators of the bill say that every winter hundreds are injured due to firecrackers, most of them children. Mihai Weber, the Social-Democratic Party ()PSD) member of Parliament who initiated the bill, says […]
The second edition of the Learning Tapestry Conference takes place in Bucharest, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, on May 14th, and will bring together global experts in psychology, business strategy, education, and leadership. They will debate how we can build an education system capable of preparing young people to adapt, reinvent, and thrive in a […]
