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Romania has started gas production in the Black Sea, which Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca called "a historic moment." He said the development would contribute to the country’s efforts to achieve 90 percent self-sufficiency rate, speaking at a ceremony on Tuesday in the village of Vadu  on the Black Sea coast in southeastern Romania. “It is a historic moment for the Romanian...

Marius Balo, who recently returned to Romania after spending eight years jailed in China for an $80 trap, on Wednesday began a 100-day journey on foot  that will take him past the country’s notorious communist-era prisons. Journey The 2,922- kilometer journey is symbolically one kilometer for every day he was locked up in China. “This is a tribute to the nation’s martyrs…....

Swiss renewable energy producer Axpo announced on June 28 that it intends to develop two wind farms with a total installed capacity of 250MW in Romania. Construction is expected to commence at the end of 2023 in locations about 100 km northeast and 200 km east of Bucharest. The facilities will produce 750 GWh of electricity annually – equivalent to...

The Carpathian Mountain Association and the green NGO Let's Do It, Romania! have launched the campaign "Let's Do It, Carpathians!", which aims to clear the waste currently littered on the hiking trails in natural mountainous regions. The campaign started earlier this year, in May, and will run for five months total, separated into three phases. The first phase consisted of...

The annual Haferland Festival--a mixture of culture, fun and high-level politics—will focus this year on 30 years of  friendship between Romania and Germany, Universul.net has learned. Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, ambassadors and politicians have confirmed they will  attend the July 29-31 festival which was originally created to shine the spotlight on the small but active Saxon community.   'From its cultural...

Moviegoers at the 2022 TIFF festival have voted  "King Michael: The Journey Home," the most popular film to beat a wide selection of  Romanian and international films. Romanian king The 55-minute film which covers the exile of the late Romanian king registered an average approval rating of 4.85 out of a total score of 5 in a In a multi-screen survey,...

Romania, besides Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Bulgaria, want to delay a European Union plan to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035 by five years, according to a document seen by Reuters. German Minister of Finance Christian Lindner initially declared that a ban on the sale of cars with thermal engines would be a mistake, and...

The profit tax generates 5% of the budget revenues, while in the OECD countries, the corporate taxes represent on average 9.2% of the budget revenues, Cartel Alfa, a federation of trade unions, argues, advocating for major changes in the taxation system. While in Romania property taxes bring only 1.8% of revenues, the average for OECD countries is 5.6%, Cartel Alfa...

Two extremely rare gold coins recovered in the UK were returned to Romania. Representatives of the Metropolitan Police handed the highly valuable artefacts to the Romanian ambassador in London a few days ago. Next, they will be sent to the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest. "We thank the entire team that made this significant recovery possible - Detectives...

Romania’s Prince Paul was caught in Paris on Monday, 18 months after he was convicted in a fraudulent real estate case, the interior minister said. Custody Interior Minister Lucian Bode said Paul Philippe was taken into custody in Paris based on an international arrest warrant that Romania issued in Dec. 2020. He was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison...