Remote Butler, an IT startup founded in 2022 in Cluj-Napoca, attracted investments worth over EUR 50,000 in its first round of financing from private investors. This comes on top of the company’s initial investment of EUR 40,000 in developing the app that allows registered waiters to practice their profession regardless of their location.
Ciprian Costea, the company’s founder, is an entrepreneur with extensive expertise in the fields of IT and HoReCa. He created the...
Representatives of Romania’s main education trade union federations protested on August 4 for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Ministry of Education and Research, opposing austerity measures introduced under Law 141/2025, which came into force on August 1,
The Declic Community has submitted a petition signed by roughly 90,000 Romanians to the Presidential Administration, calling on president Nicușor Dan to initiate a national referendum on the reform of special pensions. The civic group is demanding that all pensions follow the contributory principle and that the retirement age be the same for all professions, […]
Besides 5.5 GW of installed solar and wind power units already in use, Romania's market regulator ANRE has approved the construction of new units with a combined capacity of nearly 6 GW, which could double the contribution of the green energy (hydro not included) from 20% currently to 40%, according to Ziarul...
Romania’s Ministry of Energy informed on Monday, August 4, that it has authorised OMV Petrom to temporarily use 80,000 tonnes of crude oil and 30,000 tonnes of diesel out of its reserves to offset the effects of refusing two ships carrying a total of 180,000 tonnes of contaminated Azeri crude oil. Minister Bogdan Ivan declared […]
In a first move of this kind on the Romanian capital market, the five investment funds resulted from the mass privatisation scheme in the 90’s – Lion Capital, Evergent Investments, Transilvania Investments, Longshield Investment Group, and Infinity Capital (directly or through subsidiaries) – jointly financed, in full, the EUR 100 million bond issue of real […]
By July 23, the Treasury had borrowed RON 28.93 billion (EUR 5.6 billion) from households this year, a share of 16.7% in the total public financing undertaken by the government to cover the record financing needs, according to data published by the Ministry of Finance and compiled by Cursdeguvernare.ro. The...
