Category: Uncategorized

Romanian foreign affairs minister Oana Țoiu announced on Thursday, April 30, that the government intends to declassify more than 5,000 diplomatic files from the first years of transition from the ministry archives.  In total, 5,376 files, kept in 768 archival folders, occupying approximately 100 linear meters of shelving, will be declassified. “It is the most…

People in Bulgaria and Romania are the most exposed to the risk of poverty and social exclusion, according to a Eurostat study for the year 2025. In 2025, 92.7 million people in the EU (20.9% of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. These people lived in households experiencing at least 1…

Romanian former footballer Cristi Chivu entered the history of Romanian and Italian football after the team he coaches, Inter Milan, won the Serie A title on Sunday, May 3. Inter won 2-0 against Parma at the San Siro stadium, securing its champion status. The team coached by Chivu scored through Marcus Thuram and Henrikh Mkhitaryan,…

Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan is set to face a no-confidence motion on Tuesday, May 5. If the motion signed by 251 members of Parliament is successful, he would be the seventh prime minister after the 1989 anti-communist Revolution to be dismissed through this governmental procedure.  Bolojan is the 72nd prime minister in Romania’s history,…

Romanian high school teams delivered a commanding performance at the 2026 FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship, taking all top four places in Houston in a repeat of their growing dominance in the global student robotics arena, Agerpres reported. The final saw an all-Romanian showdown, with Velocity Robotics from “Gheorghe Munteanu Murgoci” High School in Brăila…

Romanian airline AnimaWings has brought in three prominent local investors as shareholders, in a move aimed at accelerating its expansion and positioning it as a regional aviation player. Under the agreement, BT Asset Management SAI, Winners Holding Investments, and Evergent Investments will acquire a combined 50% stake in the company, marking a significant shift in…

Far-right isolationist party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) would nearly double its weight in Parliament from 19.4% to 36.4% (after redistribution and corrected for the seats allocated to minorities), the Social Democrats (PSD) would lose ground from 27.4% to 24.6%, and a reformist coalition formed by PNL, USR, and UDMR would stagnate at…

Twenty-one new trains purchased by Romania remain out of service months after delivery, as Polish manufacturer PESA has yet to complete the maintenance facilities required under the contract, exposing a costly breakdown in project execution, Economica.net and Economedia.ro reported. The trains, intended to modernise passenger rail services, are currently parked and unused while ageing rolling…

Romania is pushing to finalise a near EUR 1 billion contract with German defence group Rheinmetall by May 31, in what officials openly frame as a last-minute opportunity to revive the bankrupt Mangalia shipyard, Ziarul Financiar reported on April 30. Economy minister Ambrozie-Irineu Darău said the probability of the deal collapsing is “only 1%”, underscoring…

The European Commission (EC) disbursed only EUR 351 million out of the money suspended from the third disbursement request under the Relaunch and Resilience Facility while withholding the rest of EUR 459 million for milestones still unfulfilled despite being initially scheduled to be met before the end of 2023, minister of investments and European projects…