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While music has moved to a hell of streaming bits and bytes, books sales are at record highs. One reason is that they make such fine decoration. Here’s a picture worth 1,000 words: the bookstore at Ben Gurion Airport bravely marches on, with its week-old copies of the Economist and disorderly piles of bestsellers; to the right, the former music...

More than four million Ukrainians have entered Romania since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, according to the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Border Police (IGPF). Most have passed through Romania to get to other places in Europe, but many have stayed, particularly in light of Romania's well-organized support system for refugees. According to IGPF, 66,244 people, including 4,681 Ukrainian...

Reportedly, Romania imported in the first two months of 2023 a quantity of usable natural gas of 175,300 tons of oil equivalent, 64.9% (-324,500 toe) less than in the same period last year, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The domestic production of natural gas was, in the mentioned period, of 1.258 million toe,...

The European Commission has rejected bans introduced by Poland and Hungary on Ukrainian grain imports, measures they claimed were necessary to protect their farming sectors from cheap imports.The Commission responded that it was not up to individual member states to make trade policy. The ban applies to grains, dairy products, sugar, fruit, vegetables and meats and will be in force...

Farmers' representatives from Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have gathered in Poland to sign the Solidarity Pact of the farmers, demanding the immediate interdiction of imports of agricultural produce and food produce from Ukraine in the signatory countries. Romania was represented as signatory party by Alina Cretu, executive manager and Tiberiu Stan, vice chairman of FAPPR (the...

Romanian journalists were angered by the words of Zsolt Bayer, a close associate of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and co-founder of Fidesz, who stated Crimea is as important for Russians as it is for Hungarians Transylvania (a historical region in the north-west of Romania, where the Hungarian minority lives compactly). "The Crimean peninsula is a symbol for Putin...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Emine Dzapharova declared on Thursday in Bucharest, in  remarks after the Romania - Ukraine - Republic of Moldova trilateral meeting on security, that the root of the Ukrainian crisis lies in Crimea and thus the solution to the current conflict must include this territory. 60 states and international organizations are currently campaigning for the liberation of...

Un eveniment de dezvelire a statuii poetului maghiar Kölcsey Ferenc, autorul imnului Ungariei, la care a participat şi preşedinta Ungariei, Katalin Éva Novák, alături de preşedintele UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, a provocat proteste din partea unor grupuri de persoane. Momentul dezvelirii statuii a fost marcat de huiduieli din partea celor nemulţumiţi de amplasarea monumentului în centrul oraşului Carei, informează News.ro. Aproximativ...

Ministrul de Externe al Ungariei, Peter Szijjarto, a declarat marţi că gigantul energetic rus Gazprom va menţine opţiunea de a furniza o cantitate suplimentară de gaze Ungariei în acest an, pe lângă livrările convenite în cadrul unui acord pe termen lung, transmite Reuters, citată de News.ro. Premierul Ungariei Viktor Orban a promovat legături bune cu Moscova în ultimul deceniu şi...

Cercetarea în domeniul hidrogenului începe să producă valoare adăugată în România şi vom continua să finanţăm şi în exerciţiul financiar 2021 - 2027 cercetarea în domeniu, a declarat, vineri, ministrul Investiţiilor şi Proiectelor Europene, Marcel Boloş, notează Agerpres. Potrivit unui comunicat al ministerului de resort, ministrul Investiţiilor şi Proiectelor Europene a participat, vineri, alături de ministrul Cercetării, Inovării şi Digitalizării,...