Cold Comfort: Igloo Village to be built in Transylvanian mountains
News that Romania’s Ice Hotel would not be built for the first time in 16 years due to unseasonably warm weather disappointed tourists planning a winter break in the Transylvanian mountains.
But owners have now come up with an alternative offer for holidaymakers looking for chilly charms 2,000 meters up the mountains.
Romania’s snail-pace roads: authorities ‘hopeful’ of building 100 kilometers of highways in 2020
Car ownership
has almost doubled in size in the last decade in Romania, but the country’s
highways have failed to keep pace with the amount of traffic.
Highway building has become a priority for the country’s political parties after an entrepreneur Stefan Manfachi built a 1-meter highway in 2019 to shame the authorities and protest the...
Pro-Russian Socialist elected mayor of Moldovan capital
A
pro-Russian Socialist has been elected mayor of the Moldovan capital Chisinau, a
loss for pro-European parties which have held the seat since the country declared
independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ion Ceban of the Moldovan Socialists’ Party won 52.4% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff to defeat Andrei Nastase, the co-chairman...
UPDATE. Romanian currency hits record low against euro, amid political uncertainty
The Romanian leu fell to an all-time low against the euro Friday, amid ongoing political uncertainty.
Romania's central bank, BNR, set its reference exchange rate at 4.8026 to one euro, the first time it has ever gone beyond the psychological barrier of 4.8. Friday's record downed Thursday's all-time high of 4.7834 lei to...
Romania orders price freeze on energy, fuel as emergency measures to respond to coronavirus crisis
Romania’s government has announced a price freeze on energy and gas to offset
the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak that has disrupted everyday life
and hit the economy hard.
Interior Minister Marcel Vela said electricity, heat, gas, water and fuel prices would not be increased during the 30-day state of emergency,
“They...
Klaus Iohannis says June was wettest month in 60 years, promises EU aid to stricken areas. ‘We need forests, not dams’
President Klaus Iohannis says Romania needs to invest in reforestation to combat the effects of severe weather and promised to allocate EU funds to offset damage caused by warming.
Iohannis said Romanian needed to change its outdated mindset to tackle the effects of climate change after the wettest June in 60 years.
Virus Outbreak: Romanian ombudsman asks president to declare state of emergency
Romania’s ombudsman has asked President Klaus Iohannis to declare a state of emergency as the coronavirus crisis unfolds around the world and the number of cases rises to 48 in Romania.
The agency said in a statement Thursday that it wasn’t “questioning … the measures taken so far, (such as) the need of...
Not a lot of dough: Romania has the cheapest bread in the European Union
Romanians pay half the European Union average for a loaf of bread, according to statistics published this week.
Eurostat published figures on bread and cereal prices for 2019 across the 27-member bloc, with the average price counted as 100.
Romania had the cheapest bread, at 47% of the average EU price....
Three months after Covid-19 lockdown suspended international rail traffic, train service to resume parts of Eastern, Central Europe
When the coronavirus pandemic swept across the world in March, European countries closed their borders and international rail traffic was halted in a bid to stop the spread of the highly contagious virus
Romania emerged from a state of emergency in mid-May and began to relax a strict lockdown, but even as borders opened...
Romania’s health minister resigns over handling of coronavirus crisis
Romania's health minister resigned on Thursday following criticism of his handling of the coronavirus epidemic that has infected more than 900 people and led to 14 deaths.
Victor Costache said he would step down, a day after he said that Bucharest's 2 million residents would be tested for COVID-19, an initiative that many said...
