‘There are very hard weeks ahead. How many victims will there be? We don’t know.’ President tells Romanians to make sacrifices to defeat coronavirus
President Klaus Iohannis issued a stark warning to Romanians on Friday, saying people would die from the novel coronavirus unless people made sacrifices and respected strict military rules.
In a message where he pulled no punches, Iohannis said: "There are very hard weeks ahead which will be critical for Romania’s healthcare system; there will...
European MEP reports Bucharest police for ‘surveillance’ during anti-government protests
Clotilde Armand, a French-Romanian member of the European Parliament, has filed a complaint against a district mayor in the Romanian capital after an investigation revealed that local police spied on her in 2017 during anti-corruption protests.
Armand is an MEP from the Renew Europe centrist bloc who is running for mayor in Bucharest’s...
Financial aid essential to protect air transport in Romania. IATA urges government to inject cash to shield 54,000 jobs
An industry group has urged The Romanian government to provide financial relief to the beleaguered aviation industry battered by the Covid-19 crisis.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicted airline revenues will fall by $1.4 billion in 2020 after a collapse in air traffic due to the crisis. Passenger numbers are expected to be...
The exodus of doctors: the tragedy of Romania’s bribe-infested health system
Millions of Romanians have emigrated in recent years for better-paid jobs in societies where individuals are judged on their skills, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social connections.
Among them are thousands of doctors and health officials who left Romania and found good jobs in hospitals in Britain, France, Germany and elsewhere....
Traditional Balkan vegetable relish lands supermarket chain in Romania with a fine
Zacusca is a traditional and popular vegetable spread or relish eaten in Romania and across the Balkans.
The relish, usually made from eggplant, mushroom or peppers, is homemade and eaten over the winter months when fresh vegetables are scarce.
However,
in recent years, zacusca which wasn’t available in shops during the communist
years,...
‘Fake’ Italian plastic surgeon to face trial in Romania on charges he operated on 28 patients without a license
An Italian man who posed as an internationally renowned British plastic surgeon is to face trial in Romania for pretending to be a doctor and operating on 28 patients without a license, authorities said Monday.
Matteo Politi, 39, who also went by the alias Mathew Mode, allegedly carried out breast implants, lip augmentations and...
Romania’s labor minister says gov’t can’t afford to hike child allowance until mid-2020
Romania’s
labor minister says the government can’t afford to double child allowance until
mid-2020 as there was no provision for the hike in the budget.
The minister, Violeta Alexandru, said the increase from 150 lei per month to 300 lei, or about 63 euros, for children aged 2-18 “can’t happen overnight” and would likely occur when...
Romanian man who posed as Robert De Niro to get bank loan, arrested for drug trafficking
A Romanian man who was jailed after he duped a bank into giving him a 60,000 euro loan after posing as U.S. actor Robert De Niro has been arrested on suspicion of drugs trafficking.
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Sorin Bulgaru, 53, was handed a nine-year sentence for fraud and embezzlement in 2011...
In Romania, coronavirus cases cross 8,000, with 400 deaths reported
Romanian authorities say the number of cases of confirmed coronavirus rose to 8,067 in while the death toll reached 400 on Friday.
The Strategic Communication Group said that there were 360 new cases in the last 24 hours. Apart from the deaths in Romania, 58 Romanians have succumbed to the virus abroad.
Former top spy chief criticizes Romania over Moldova, Hungary and the Romanian president in rare interview (update 1)
A former top spy has criticized Romania's lack of strategy in Moldova and compared his country's strategy unfavorably with that of neighboring Hungary in a rare interview which commentators called the harshest attack by a retired senior intelligence officer in the last 30 years.
It is very unusual for former spy chiefs to...
