A total of 7,924 unemployed people, including 4,531 women, were in the records of the Municipal Agency for Employment Bucharest (AMOFM) at the end of March, with an unemployment rate of 0.63%, informs a press release sent on Tuesday.Compared to the previous month, when the unemployment rate was 0.64%, the indicator decreased by 1.56% this March.Out of a total of 7,924 people registered in the records of AMOFM Bucharest, 1,531 were recipients of unemployment benefits and 6,393 were unemployed without benefits.Most unemployed were in the age groups 30-39 (2,063 persons) and 40-49 (1,865 persons).The unemployed with high school education had the highest share in the total number of unemployed registered in the AMOFM Bucharest (37.23%), followed by those with higher education (26.86%) and 17.88% who graduated from vocational school/arts and crafts. Workers with secondary education accounted for 15.31% of all registered unemployed, those with post-secondary education 2.13%, and those with primary education and no education 0.59%.The structure of registered unemployed persons by level of employability, established by profiling, is as follows: 1,271 persons very hard to employ, 2,452 hard to employ, 2,388 moderately difficult to employ, and 1,813 were easily employable.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
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 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
