Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Friday, in Sibiu, that during his visit to Israel he noticed a "concern" among the Romanian community in this country, stating that among the hostages left after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 there are also two people who have Romanian-Israeli citizenship.He gave assurances that the authorities would continue to monitor the situation in the Middle East."There is a concern among the Romanian community in Israel. Furthermore, of the remaining hostages, two have Romanian and Israeli citizenship, four were in the process of obtaining Romanian citizenship as well. I met with the prime minister, I met with the president of the state of Israel, with the president of the Parliament, the Knesset. There was no institution that I entered together with my colleagues without meeting at least one person who did not tell me that his parents were born in Romania (...) they are from Neamt, from Iasi. It is a very close connection between Romania and Israel. We will continue to monitor the situation in the Middle East, a situation with a new security crisis, after the war in Ukraine. Indeed, it is known that there was a close connection between the Government of Romania and the Government of the State of Israel", Ciolacu told a press conference.Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu was on a working visit to the State of Israel on Thursday, during which he had meetings with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, with the Minister for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, as well as with the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog.
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
