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Romania’s government-run Green House program, designed to encourage the use of home heating and energy systems based on renewable energy, will be modified this year and will finance only energy storage systems, not the installation of photovoltaic panels, according to environment minister Diana Buzoianu. In an interview for Euronews Romania on Monday, August 10, the…

Romania’s Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has initiated the technical procedures preceding the controlled shutdown of its second nuclear reactor, the so-called Unit 2, due to the very low flow of the Danube. The river water was essential for the cooling of the pumps used by the plant.  The shutdown of Unit 2, scheduled for Thursday,…

Apartment prices in Romania’s most important cities remained largely stable in July relative to the previous month, according to Storia’s analysis cited by Economedia, with a slight 6% increase in both new and old one- to three-room apartments. Cluj-Napoca remains the most expensive city among those analyzed, with an average cumulative price of EUR 3,298/sqm,…

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Bogdan Ţărnea, stated on Monday, August 10, that Russian officials should not comment on the national identity of a country while their own country is waging “a brutal war of conquest.” The statements came in reaction to comments made by Yuri Pilipson, director of the Second…

Romania has five beaches included in the Blue Flag program this year, the Ministry of Economy, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship and Tourism announced on Tuesday, August 11. The beaches that have received the Blue Flag label are: Axxis Nova – Năvodari; Phoenicia – Năvodari; Azur – Eforie Sud; Citadel – Eforie Sud; and Phoenicia Blue View –…

Spanish fashion group Tendam will bring three of its brands to Rivus Cluj-Napoca, the real estate project currently under development. Cortefiel, the fashion group’s original brand, will open its first store in the country in Cluj. The other two units will operate under the Springfield and Women’secret brands. The three brands will take up a…

The Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected the accusations of human trafficking and organized criminal group made against Viorel Pașca, the owner of an authorized care homes network in Bihor County, western Romania, when it ruled against his detention back in July. The information emerged from the reasoning of the judge, now made public, who decided…

Interim environment minister Diana Buzoianu said on Monday, August 10, that one of the largest areas of illegal tree cutting in Romania was in Brașov County. Roughly 5,000 trees were cut without proper authorizations in the area. The minister said she will travel to the area in question and noted that several such locations were…

More than 70 kilometers of underground utility networks are being upgraded alongside the works on approximately 50 kilometers of tram tracks, the Bucharest City Hall said. According to the institution, difficulties arise “as the actual location of pipes and other infrastructure does not always match the blueprints.” The City Hall said this was the reason…

Romania’s foreign trade deficit (goods) increased by 4.4% y/y to EUR 8.66 billion in the second quarter of the year (Q2), after it had posted negative annual growth rates for the previous four quarters, data from the Statistics Office (INS) show. For the first half of the year, the trade gap still contracted by 2%…