Night train service will transport Romanian care workers to Austria
Austria is setting up a weekly night train connection passing through Hungary into Romania to bring care workers across largely closed borders during the coronavirus lockdown.
The country’s s nursing care system depends on labour from eastern Europe,
and it has opened its borders to workers commuting short distances from Slovakia,
the Czech Republic,...
Giant monkeys, short-necked giraffes and pangolins and other exotic animals roamed central Romania two million years ago.
Giant monkeys. Short-necked giraffes. Saber-toothed cats. It almost sounds like a menagerie of fictional creatures.
But these are just some of the animal species that roamed across an area of
modern-day Romania two million years ago, scientists have found.
Fossils were first unearthed along the Oltet Valley in the 1960s during the...
UPDATE. Romania, Hungary agree to put tense moments behind them, focus on the positives
Romanian and Hungarian foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to focus on improving relations between their countries despite occasional political tensions over the ethnic Hungarian community which lives in Transylvania.
Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said "Romania most sincerely wants a return to a real strategic partnership with Hungary."
"Romania expects...
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...
