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Winter returned to Romania on Monday, placing its icy grip over much of the country. Meteorologists announced a sharp drop in temperatures Monday morning with light snow in the capital and subzero temperatures. The cold snap is expected to last until Wednesday morning and heavy snow of 10-15 centimeters in southern Romania will be accompanied by high winds causing snow drifts. Meteorologists...

Israel’s Arab minority - "Israeli-Palestinians" to some - is misunderstood abroad and underestimated at home. And they now have demands. A few days ago, on a Dutch podcast, I was asked whether I thought Palestinians would ever gain equal rights. I began answering about the need for Israelis and Palestinians to separate, and for Israel to not mix together with...

Several incidents affecting railway infrastructure in northern Italy caused significant travel disruption this week.  This coincidences with large numbers of visitors arrived for the opening of the Winter Olympic Games. Police and transport authorities said they were investigating three separate incidents involving damage to rail lines.  One involved a fire affecting rail infrastructure between Bologna and Venice, leading to delays of up...

Not this time. Emma Raducanu was well beaten in the Transylvania Open final on Saturday in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2 losing to Romanian Sorana Cirstea. The loss dashed her hopes of a first title since her US Open triumph in 2021. The British number one, who was the top seed at the Transylvania Open, was second best throughout the match as 35-year-old...

SaRomania ended 2025 with a budget deficit of 7.65%, after a sky-high peak of 9.3%, in 2024. Romania is a country where the current government is forced by circumstances to ask the population – public servants and the business environment – for new sacrifices in order to reduce the deficit – the target for 2026 being around 6%. It would be...

Radio Free Europe, funded by the U.S. Congress, has announced it will close in Romania and Bulgaria at the end of March. In Romania he site was reopened in 2018 to combat disinformation and promote a free press. Thomas Kent, the president of REL/RL, emphasized the importance of broadcasts made by local journalists to support democratic values. The closure was announced...

British tennis player has  Emma Raducanu had a fine week  as she closes in on a second career title. If Raducanu wins the Transylvania Open, she can face critics who place so much emphasis on that 2021 US Open triumph. She stormed through to the final on Friday after beating world No. 91 Oleksandra Oliynykova 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 in a grueling...

Romania will lose 231 million euros of European Union funds after failing to meet the deadline for reforming judges’ pensions, the government says. Minister of Investments and European Projects, Dragoș Pîslaru, told Digi24, that during discussions in Brussels about payment from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. the European Commission "very clearly" stated that Romania had not met necessary reforms...

The point of this article is to clarify some key notions for monetary theory and policy. At the same time it is a natural step in the communicating financial education, something I took on by coordinating National Bank of Romania educational programs for pupils, students, teachers and the business environment. I believe that the proper understanding, by the general public,...

It’s too easy to blame journalists. The crisis in the news media stems from publishers who chased reinvention instead of excellence - and because too many people just don't care The shocking diminishment of the Washington Post, which has just announced it is cutting a third of its staff, is not just another story of a great paper succumbing to...