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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…

The fiscal measures legislated by Romania last year have significantly improved the public health system, according to an analysis carried out by Economica.net. Thus, the National Health Insurance Fund (FNUASS), from which the social health insurance system is largely financed, posted the largest surplus and received the lowest subsidies from the state in the first…

Another drone entered Romanian airspace near Galați early on Thursday, August 20, before crashing in an unpopulated area near Grindu, Tulcea County, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) announced. No casualties or property damage were reported. The ministry said its radar surveillance system detected a group of aerial targets near the Ukrainian border at 2:23…

Approximately 28% of publicly announced leasing transactions in the first half of 2026 involved manufacturing space, almost double last year’s share and well above the typical 10-15% range, according to Colliers’ report on the real estate market’s performance in the first half of the year. At the same time, around two-thirds of demand came from…

The Transilvania International Film Festival, or TIFF, is set to return to Timișoara, western Romania, from September 17 to 20, at Cinema Timiș, Cinema Studio, FABER and Capitol Summer Garden.  The event will bring award-winning films from major international festivals, Romanian premieres, a cine-concert, a special section dedicated to French filmmaker Jacques Tati, as well…