Romania’s president slams plan to allow Orthodox faithful to receive ‘Holy Flame’ at Easter. ‘Stay at home, otherwise we’ll have funerals’
Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday told the government to scrap an agreement it made with the powerful Romanian Orthodox Church which allows the faithful to receive the 'Holy Flame' at Easter.
“Let’s be very, very clear because perhaps not everyone has understood. The order is “stay at home," during the coronavirus...
Sun, sea and mountains, yet Romania fails to reach its tourism potential
Romania offers tourists sun, sea, snow (like in the rest of Europe, there's less of it this winter) and mountains. However, it still fails to harness its potential, hampered by poor infrastructure and a lack of investment.
Figures released Monday in Bucharest show that tourism is increasing in Romania, but the industry contributes...
Children’s doctor handed suspended prison sentence for taking bribes. One 4,000-euro kickback came in form of book sponsorship
A Romanian court has handed a pediatrician a three-year suspended prison sentence
for taking bribes worth about 12,000 euros over a six-month period.
The Bucharest Court on Monday sentenced Gheorghe Burnei, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon on charges that he took bribes on 21 occasions totaling 40,000 lei and 3,250 euros from the parents of children...
Romania carries out a record 8,000 tests for COVID-19 in one day, as cases cross 11,000
Romanian health authorities have tested more than 8,000 people in the last 24 hours, a record number of tests, as the number of confirmed cases rose to 11,086.
The Strategic Communication Group said 8,089 tests had been carried out in the past day, but reported a total of 9,873 tests on Sunday. The...
Thirteen people have tested positive for coronavirus in Romania, including 1st case in the capital
Romanian authorities say 13 people have tested positive for coronavirus, including the first case in the capital.
Romanian authorities said on Saturday that a 49-year-old man in the capital who returned from a trip to Rome in late February was diagnosed with the virus.
The man was hospitalized in the Matei...
Romania puts brake on reopening restaurants after surge in Covid-19 cases
Restaurants
in Romania won’t reopen as planned on July 1, following a spike in coronavirus
cases which came after some people refused to wear compulsory face masks and
disregarded other measures designed to slow the spread of the virus.
Health Minister Nelu Tataru said late Monday that officials had “assessed
the last two weeks, when cases increased, two...
PM Ludovic Orban: ‘Hurray, hurray, hurray! Long live Greater Romania!’ Iohannis praises Romanians for “defending democracy”(update 3)
Light snow fell in the capital Sunday as Romanians in their thousands turned out to watch large military parades in Bucharest and other cities for the national day holiday. President Klaus Iohannis later called on millions of Romanians who live abroad to return home to a "normal" Romania and praised countrymen for "defending democracy."
Romania’s president appeals to entrepreneurs to bring ideas to the table in response to the coronavirus crisis
President
Klaus Iohannis on Monday launched an appeal to the country’s entrepreneurs to
bring their ideas and initiatives to the government to tackle the coronavirus epidemic.
In a live address, Iohannis publicly reached out to Romanian businesses.
“I am
using this occasion to address our entrepreneurs. Come to the government with your ideas because...
One million jobs in Romania at risk over virus outbreak, study warns
Romanian consultancy company Frames has warned that one million jobs are at risk due to the economic downturn caused by the virus outbreak.
The company warned in a study published on March 13 that Romania would go into a recession “unless urgent measures are taken.”
Frames said small firms were particularly...
“Hospitals of Shame:” Bribes to doctors still widespread in Romania, study shows.
A study shows Bucharest’s Emergency Hospital has the highest level of patient-to-medics bribes with 153 patients reporting they paid a kickback from Jan-July 2019. An emergency hospital in the provinces is next worse with 147 patients saying they’d paid a bribe. Eighty-three cancer patients paid a bribe at the Al. Trestioreanu Oncological Institute in Bucharest. The unusual...
