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Romania’s National Environmental Guard announced that it closed an unauthorized wildlife facility in Dâmbovița County and issued fines totaling RON 220,000. The authority also filed a criminal complaint against the International Wildlife Foundation (IWF) after inspectors allegedly found animals kept in unsanitary and inadequate conditions, sometimes without food or water. The facility operated as a…

STRABAG Property and Facility Services (STRABAG PFS), a subsidiary of the European construction group STRABAG, agreed to acquire 100% of Romanian companies Brenneka Install and Samivo Instal. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to approval from the relevant authorities. The STRABAG subsidiary signed the acquisition agreement on August 11.…

Romania’s first Silent Reading Party aboard a train is set to take place on August 22 on the Bucharest–Constanța route.  The event, organized by the Cărturești Foundation, is part of the national “Movement for Reading” program. The train leaves Bucharest’s North Railway Station at 12:52 PM, according to Radio Constanta.  Participants will have 60 minutes…

Romanian flag carrier TAROM will name the second Boeing 737 MAX joining its renewed fleet after Olympic canoeing champion Ivan Patzaichin. The agreement allowing the airline to use his name was signed on August 19 in the presence of his wife and daughter. The first new Boeing 737 MAX entering TAROM’s fleet this year was…

Fewer than 55,000 applications for jobs abroad have been registered by Romanian online recruitment platform eJobs from January to August, accounting for only 0.6% of the total applications on the platform this year. Compared to last year, candidates’ efforts to find a job abroad have decreased by almost 33% and are even half the level…

Dominic Fritz has been unanimously reconfirmed as president of Romania’s pro-European political party Save Romania Union (USR) following the Constitutional Court ruling that could cost him his mandate as mayor of Timișoara. More than 150 members of the party’s Political Committee backed him during a hybrid meeting on Wednesday, August 19. “The system’s mafia thought…

The Ford automobile factory in Craiova, operated by Ford Otosan, will resume operations after it started the annual maintenance outage at the beginning of the year in an attempt to ease pressure on electricity consumption, according to Profit.ro. The Dacia factory operated by the Renault group in Pitesti will also resume operations on August 25.…

Acting minister of finance, Alexandru Nazare, presented the updated situation regarding the implications of the Fiscal Responsibility Law 69/2010 at the government meeting on Wednesday, August 19. According to the latest official Eurostat data, Romania’s public debt reached 60.1% of GDP at the end of the first quarter of 2026. Romania has been under Excessive…

On August 19, the European Commission sent a point of view to the Romanian government regarding the draft Wage Law for the budgetary sector, requesting clarifications on the budgetary sources for the RON 12 billion or higher increase in the payroll next year, as announced by interim prime minister Ilie Bolojan. Initially, Romania set a…

Romania’s reformist Save Romania Union (USR) has submitted a bill seeking to abolish special admission exams that high schools and colleges can organise alongside the national assessment, arguing that the separate examinations deepen inequalities in the education system. The bill was submitted by USR deputy Corina Atanasiu and USR senator Ștefan Pălărie on August 19…