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The European Commission is expected to grant Romania additional time to present and implement a fiscal corrective package before considering punitive measures such as suspending disbursements under the EU’s Resilience Facility and cohesion policy funds, Bloomberg reported on June 2, citing sources familiar with the matter. Romania is under pressure to reduce its fiscal deficit,…

Experts from Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Hungary will arrive in Romania starting Wednesday, June 4, to help assess the situation at the Praid Salt Mine in Harghita County following major flooding that has caused significant structural damage, News.ro reported. Romanian authorities have activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to bring in international support, with…

A baby liger, the product of the mating of a lion and a tigress, was born at a private zoo in Suceava, in eastern Romania, Monitorul de Suceava reported.  The baby is extremely rare, and there are at most 20 ligers in the world at the moment. It was met with excitement from local visitors.  The…

The king of Spain, Felipe VI, is reportedly set to make an official visit to Romania next week, arriving on the evening of June 9, according to TVRinfo. On June 10, the monarch will go to Cincu military base, in central Romania, where Spanish soldiers are deployed on NATO missions to ensure security on the…

The National Tennis Center in Bucharest will officially be renamed the Simona Halep National Tennis Center, the Romanian Tennis Federation (FRT) announced on Tuesday, June 3, according to news agency Agerpres. The decision honors Halep’s outstanding career and contributions to tennis. “Through this renaming, FRT aims to pay tribute to the athlete who brought major…

In the first four months of 2025, there was an average of approximately 14 cases of domestic violence per hour in Romania. According to Save the Children Romania, the correlation between various forms of domestic violence and low education levels is becoming increasingly evident, representing a serious social problem. In Romania, roughly a third of children…

Former Romanian prime minister Călin Popescu Tăriceanu was definitively acquitted on Monday, June 2, by the High Court of Cassation and Justice in a case in which he was accused of bribery. Prosecutors at the Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) had claimed that he received USD 800,000 from representatives of an Austrian company in exchange for making…

The Together for the Green Belt/Împreună pentru Centura Verde civic platform is calling on Romania’s main political parties, namely the Social Democrats (PSD), Liberals (PNL), USR, and Hungarians’ party UDMR, to include green belts in their next governing program, with a specific focus on the Bucharest-Ilfov Green Belt. The initiative is framed as a critical national…

Dominic Fritz, mayor of the western Romanian city of Timișoara, announced his bid for the leadership of the Save Romania Union (USR) party in an internal message. In the message, Fritz says that the party must move more to the center. He cited Nicușor Dan, the founder of USR, who nearly a decade ago also…

In a recent interview, Cătălin Șomfălean, CEO of Innobyte, reveals the recruitment and organizational culture consolidation strategies that allow the largest dedicated eCommerce software company in the country to navigate current socio-economic and geopolitical challenges successfully. The global tech landscape is undergoing an era of accelerated transformations, marked by geopolitical tensions, economic fluctuations, and a…