Severe drought will slash harvest by half, Romanian minister says. But there’s “more than enough for domestic consumption”
Romania’s harvest will be half its normal volume this year due to severe drought, the agriculture minister says.
The minister, Adrian Oros, said the lack of rainfall had affected about three million hectares of wheat, barley, rape, rye, have been hit he told Europa FM on Thursday.
However, he...
Freedom march, questions and criticism mark 30 years since Romania’s bloody revolution
Romanians
are commemorating 30 years since the overthrow of the Communist regime of
Nicolae Ceausescu, with hundreds staging a "freedom march" in the
town of Timisoara where the 1989 revolt began.
Late
Sunday, people waving Romanian flags marched to a church where Reformed Church pastor
was expelled for criticizing the Ceausescu dictatorship in his sermons.
Transylvanian city of Cluj announces subway line to meet needs of growing population
If residents of Bucharest complain that the underground network fails to meet the city's needs, citizens in the country’s second city Cluj can consider themselves more fortunate after the mayor announced a subway line to cope with the growing city's demands.
Mayor Emil Boc said the Transylvanian city would get a metro line with...
Romania says 17 nationals stranded on ship in quarantine amid coronavirus outbreak
Romania’s foreign ministry says 17 nationals are among thousands of passengers quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan amid an outbreak of coronavirus on the liner.
In a statement, the ministry said Thursday that 15 are crew members and two are passengers on the quarantined cruise liner.
Reuters reported that ten...
When are we going to get a Metro to the airport?
Romania’s late Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu built Bucharest’s underground system, the Metro. It lacks the ornate details or grandeur of the Naples or Moscow undergrounds, because it was built for speed of transit and practicality.
It would have been built earlier, but plans were shelved due to the outbreak of World War II followed...
Hotels close, tens of thousands of jobs at risk in Romanian hotel industry due to COVID-19 pandemic- Profit.ro
Tens of thousands of jobs in Romania’s hotel industry are at risk with up to 40% of hotels facing closure as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic hit the hospitality industry.
Industry captains say 10 percent of Romania's hotels have already closed, and predict many others will be forced to do the same due...
Top doctor in charge of Romanian government COVID-19 response fired after secret plan to remove elderly from families to stop virus spreading is leaked
Romania’s health minister on Thursday fired the medic in charge of the government’s COVID-19 response after he drafted a secret plan to put millions of elderly people in quarantine and even take away from their families to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
A plan drafted by Adrian Streinu-Cercel, who is the manager...
Romania’s long-standing central bank governor ‘was informant for Securitate’ communist secret police, council says
Mugur Isarescu, the governor of the National Bank of Romania, was an informant for Securitate secret police, reporting on ordinary people who complained about shortages during the dark communist years, a council in charge of the files asserted Thursday.
The National Council for the Publication of the Securitate Archives stated that Isarescu was an...
Making Agriculture Work. Romania plans to invest 6 billion euros of EU funds in irrigation, soil erosion and drainage
Romania will invest 2.5 billion euros to overhaul its irrigation infrastructure,
Agriculture Minister Adrian Oros has said.
Another 2.1 billion will be used to alleviate soil erosion, and 1.1 billion euros is earmarked for drainage infrastructure, the minister told B1 TV on Wednesday.
It was the first time the Liberal minority government...
UPDATE. Health minister urges Romanians to wear masks, respect physical distance rules, as new coronavirus cases surge to 460
The
number of new coronavirus soared to 460 on Thursday, a figure similar to the
peak of pandemic in Romania.
It was the highest daily figure since April 22 and only the eighth time since the pandemic spread to Romania that the number of new cases have exceeded 400 in one day.
