The Senate’s Standing Bureau met on Monday in order to discuss the timetable in what concerns the National Anticorruption Directorate’s (DNA) request for the Senate to approve the lifting of PSD Senator and ex-Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean’s legal immunity. The quorum was not reached this time either, so the meeting was postponed for a later […]
Thousands of people gathered in central Bucharest on January 15 for a rally initially organised in opposition to the so-called Vexler Law, the legislation aimed at strengthening Romania’s legal framework against extremism, antisemitism, and xenophobia. The demonstration later broadened into a protest against the government and state authorities more generally. The rally was first promoted […]
OMV Petrom (BVB: SNP) has calculated total "impairment adjustments" of EUR 420 million, which will be seen in the financial results of the last quarter of 2025, arising mainly as a result of the agreement between the OMV group and the Romanian government at the end of last year. "Following the principles agreed between OMV […]
The Romanian minister of finance, Alexandru Nazare, on January 15, signed the second financing agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB), worth EUR 500 million, intended to support the construction of the A1 Sibiu-Pitești motorway, one of the most important road infrastructure projects in Romania. The EIB loan will partially finance the state contribution to […]
Europe could face a wave of credit rating downgrades if tensions with the United States over Greenland fracture NATO, Fitch's chief sovereign ratings analyst, James Longsdon, said on January 15, according to Reuters, as quoted by Ziarul Financiar. Romania is working to maintain its fragile investment-grade rating after narrowly avoiding...
The industrial production volume in Romania contracted by 1.1% y/y in January-November and by 0.9% y/y in the 12 months to November, after a disappointing performance (-2.9% y/y) in November, according to data published by the statistics office INS. The production dropped by 0.7% m/m in November after adjustment for seasonality. The state forecasting body […]
Romanian cinema will also be represented at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale, with two feature films selected for major sections of the event: Forum and Generation. This year’s edition runs from February 12 to 22. De capul nostru/On Our Own, the latest fiction feature by director Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, has been selected […]
