The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race.
The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 members voted, representing 57.15% of the total. As Dominic Fritz obtained more than half of the votes in the first round, there is no need to organize a second round.
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Romania's largest ruling party, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), broadly agrees with the reforms proposed by prime minister Ilie Bolojan (Liberal Party PNL), although there are some details still to be tackled, PSD interim president Sorin Grindeanu said after the party leadership's weekly meeting of August 18,
Romanian retail chain Annabella, developed by local entrepreneurs, took over 82 Profi stores and 5 Mega Image stores in a deal aimed at facilitating the expansion of the Mega Image retail chain that took over Profi from MidEuropa Partners for EUR 1.3 billion, Profit.ro...
The new tax on shifted profit proposed by the government is significantly impacting the attractiveness of Romania as a destination for foreign investments, and it is far more restrictive than the similar regulation in Poland, mentioned by the authorities as a source of inspiration, according to a report drafted by PwC. The consultancy firm salutes […]
The General Secretariat of the Romanian Government (SGG) has published for public consultations the draft law for the reform of the state-owned enterprises and the so-called autonomous institutions, such as the regulators for the financial, energy, and telecom markets (ASF, ANRE, and ANCOM, respectively), according to Cursdeguvernare.ro...
The Foreign Direct Investment Review Commission (CEISD), a body supervised by the Romanian government in charge of screening significant foreign investments for security impact, has not cleared the sale of E.ON’s electricity and gas supply subsidiary to Hungarian state-owned energy company MVM, according to sources familiar with the decision consulted by
The macroeconomic confidence index compiled by CFA Society Romania based on a survey among its members improved by 5 points in July compared to June, entirely driven by better expectations (+8.6 points), but the current conditions component (-2.2 points) reached the lowest value in the past years and both components remain deep in the "negative" […]
