Romania suspends export of wheat, flour and oil to ensure food during COVID-19 lockdown
Romania has suspended the export of wheat and other basic foodstuffs outside the European Union.
Flour, oil and sugar are also included in the ban that will last until mid-May. It's the latest measure taken during the state of emergency that was imposed last month to help authorities fight the spread of the new...
Acclaimed documentary film about Queen Marie to tour Romania
The heart of Queen Marie of Romania lies in a silver casket in where she drew her final breath more than 80 years ago.
But the story of her life lives on. The documentary film Marie, Heart of Romania, is about to go on tour around the country in a bid to bring the...
Romania postpones 5G auction to 2020 over political, legal uncertainties
Romania has announced it is postponing a 5G auction until next year amid political and legislative uncertainty.
Sorin Grindeanu, a former prime minister who heads the telecom market regulator ANCOM, said the auction was postponed until 2020 for three reasons.
He said the future government needs approve the 2020 budget which...
Half the calls made to Romania’s emergency services were hoaxes or pocket calls last year
Romania faces a battle with hoax and nuisance calls. Millions made prank or pocket calls to the emergency services last year, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The spokesman for the Special Telecommunications Service, Catalin Chirca, said almost half the 11.3 million calls made in 2019 were hoaxes or mistakes.
He told Radio...
Romania marks 150 years since first train journey (Only they were QUICKER then)
The first Romanian
train ran on time. It departed Bucharest and went to the Danube port of Giurgiu
where passengers could travel on to Vienna by ship. Later, the train transported
troops during the War of Independence.
The 150th
anniversary of Romania’s first train ride on Thursday should be cause for
celebration.
Instead people are reminded...
Ex-Romanian strongman Liviu Dragnea to stay behind bars after court rejects his bid to be released
Romania’s
high court has rejected an appeal by Liviu Dragnea the former leader of the
Social Democrats, to overturn his 3 ½ year prison sentence for instigating official
misconduct.
The High
Court of Cassation and Justice on Tuesday also turned down the appeals of two other
officials who were convicted in the same case. The ruling is final.
Romania’s health minister says COVID-19 peak coming soon, as cases reach 5,500
Romania's health minister says the coronavirus pandemic will peak in about two weeks as the number of COVID-19 cases rose to almost 5,500 on Friday, with 265 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours.
Nelu Tataru said that the peak number of cases would come between 20-25 April, the week after Orthodox Easter....
Romanian central bank adviser warns of looming recession
Romanian central bank adviser Lucian Croitoru says the world is approaching a recession as bad as the financial crisis of 2008, in comments made at the EU-COFILE seminar organized by Alpha Bank, the National Bank of Romania and the Romanian Banking Association.
Our economy operates in cycles. We go through periods of...
Jewish authorities promise to repair disused synagogue after ‘sexy’ photo shoot in ruins appears online
It’s an ill wind that blows wind that blows no one any good.
A furor erupted after pictures of a young woman posing in her underwear appeared online amid the ruins of a disused synagogue in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta.
“Scandalous..
Is the Synagogue in Constanta a monumental...
2019 presidential election. Candidates trade insults. Iohannis claims he saved the rule of law, ex-PM says she raised wages, pensions
President Klaus Iohannis said there would be no rule of law in Romania if he hadn’t intervened to stop a contentious judicial overhaul initiated by the former Social Democrat government.
Iohannis faces ex-Prime Minister Viorica Dancila in a runoff for the presidential election on Nov. 24. The pair held separate press conferences Tuesday...
