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The departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union will only “marginally” affect the local economy, an analysis by KeyFin shows. The business analysis group published its “The BREXIT effect" report Thursday on the eve of Britain leaving the EU. It said there are 1,600 companies in Romania with British investment, and 1,300...

Romania will track down and bring to justice former prison guards in charge of communist-era prisons where thousands of political prisoners died of hunger, disease and physical mistreatment, a government official says. Alexandra Toader, the new director of the Institute for Investigating the Crimes of Communism, has promised to resume probes into crimes committed in...

European competition regulators have approved a 53 million euro plan for a network of charging stations for electric vehicles in Romania. The measure will contribute to reducing CO2 and other pollutant emissions without  distorting competition in the single market, the Commission said in a press release this week. The Commission said Romania's plans...

Down on the Danube, on a bend in the river not far from the Bulgarian port of Ruse, a barge inches along the water at a snail's pace. The sun shines brightly, and the water is almost turquoise. A thick layer of snow glitters in the wintry sunlight on the Romanian and Bulgarian banks of Europe’s...

Hundreds of tourists waited hours to enter Greece on Thursday, with traffic stretching back for kilometers at the Bulgarian-Greek border as Covid-19 restrictions slowed travel for holidaymakers, Romanian media reported. Greek authorities are only allowing motorists to cross on the Kulata-Promachonas checkpoint  since July 1, Romania’s foreign ministry said which has led to a bottleneck...

Romania is auctioning off the ill-gotten gains of crime, and a Porsche and thousands of pairs of men’s trousers are among the objects going under the hammer. The National Agency for the Management of Confiscated Assets said it had started an online platform to auction goods online, the justice ministry said.

Romania's interior minister says flights to Italy and Spain, the countries that are the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, will be suspended for the rest of the month. Interior Minister Marcel Vela spoke late Thursday, joined by other other officials who announced the latest measures that will take effect under the...

 Romania’s interior minister says that flights to a dozen countries which have high numbers of coronavirus cases will suspended until mid-May in a bid to stop the spread of the disease. Romanian authorities have already banned commercial flights to and from the 12 countries at different times under a military ordinance which was imposed...

Gabriela Schmutzer, head of the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection (DGASPC) sector 6, sent Ciprian Ciucu, the president of the National Agency of Civil Servants, an Easter gift. A bottle of Moet & Chandon champagne, a Hennessy bottle, foie gras and other delicacies. The price of the basket is over 800 lei. The information,...

The number of new Covid-19 cases soared to 450 on Thursday, as Romania’s recent spike showed no sign of abating. The number of new infections, which is 38% higher than the previous day, is the second highest figure in two months. The National Public Health Institute said that the cases were confirmed following 12,...