State is required to create opportunities for expat Romanians to return home, PM tells French diaspora
AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: The state is required to create opportunities so that the Romanians who left for work abroad return to the country, and the authorities should own up to their wrong approach in the past to development policies, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Monday at a meeting with representatives of the Romanian community in Fran
Out-of-pocket health spending in Romania around 23 pct, minister says
Approximately 23 percent of the money in the health system covers subsidized medication and private medical services, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila told on Monday the event "Innovative Romania: a resilient and competitive EU member state and OECD candidate". "The EU average for health care allocations is 9 percent, and in Romania it is 4.5 pe
20 percent of country's storage needs to be reached through contracts signed on Monday under PNRR (Energy Ministry)
Romania has made storage a zero priority for the national energy system, and 20 percent of the country's storage needs will be reached through the contracts signed on Monday under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), informs Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja. According to a press release sent to AGERPRES, the Energy Ministry has met two more m
Oves Enterprise, Norway's KDA contemplate strategic partnership
Cluj-Napoca-based Romanian software developer Oves Enterprise is contemplating a strategic partnership with one of the global leaders in defense solutions, Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace (KDA) for the integration of its Nemesis AI technology into defense solutions, the Romanian company said in a release. Oves Enterprise received this week at its headquarter
Romcim completes construction of wind farm that directly supplies its cement factory in Medgidia
Romcim, a member of building materials producer CRH Group, has completed the construction of a wind farm that directly supplies its cement factory in Medgidia - Constanta County, the company announced on Friday. According to the cited source, the wind farm includes 5 turbines with a total installed capacity of about 30 MW and an estimated annual net output of
Delivery of Fargo Jet cloud seeding aircraft, proof of strong U.S.-Romania strategic partnership (ambassador)
The delivery to Romania by North Dakota-based Fargo Jet of the first precipitation enhancement aircraft is yet another example of the strategic partnership between the United States of America and Romania, as well as of the two countries' ever growing bilateral trade and investment relationship, U.S. ambassador in Bucharest Kathleen Kavalec said on Friday, as she opened
Exhibition dedicated to Belgica 1897 - 1899 Antarctic expedition to open at Bucharest's Antipa Museum
The temporary exhibition "First Polar Night's Dream - Belgica - the 1897 - 1899 Antarctic Expedition" will open on Wednesday, November 6, at 19:00 at the 'Grigore Antipa' National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest in the presence of the museum's general director Luis Ovidiu Popa, exhibition curator Oana Paula Popa, director of the Geology Docto
Dramatic situation of journalists in Ukraine, discussed in Strasbourg; Toma (CNA): War subject, inevitable
Mircea Toma, a representative of Romania's National Audiovisual Council (CNA), in charge of organising the Council of Europe's "Journalists Matter" campaign in Romania, said on Friday that the subject of the war in Ukraine is inevitable in any meeting related to this campaign. Toma participated on October 29 and 30 in the conference dedicated
Energy minister: We cannot afford to retire coal-fired capacities with no replacement
Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja said on Thursday, on the occasion of the completion of refurbishment works at Unit 5 of the Rovinari Thermal Power Plant of the Oltenia Energy Complex (CEO) that "one cannot shut down coal-fired facilities without putting something else in place." "We cannot afford to retire coal-fired generators without replaci
Mural depicting striker Vinicius Jr. in Romania's national jersey unveiled in Bucharest
A mural depicting Real Madrid's Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior in the jersey of the Romanian national team was unveiled on Thursday in Bucharest in the presence of Brazilian ambassador Ricardo Guerra de Araujo and a group of former Romanian and Brazilian footballers. The street painting that embellishes the side of a block of flats in the center of Buch
AEP head announces start of legislative election campaign on Nov 1, wrap-up on Nov 30
President of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) Toni Grebla announced that the campaign for Romania's legislative elections starts on Friday, November 1, and will end on November 30 at 7:00 a.m., noting that all candidates must replace their pre-campaign promotional materials with those accepted by the law for this period. According to Grebla, approxi
Foreign Affairs Ministry: Six out of 22 Romanians initially unaccounted for after Spanish floods found safe
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs that six out of 22 Romanian nationals reported as missing on Thursday morning in the Spanish devastating floods were found to be safe and sound. The Ministry is checking through the Romanian Consulate in Castellon de la Plana information about 16 Romanian citizens possibly going missing, and maintains permanent contact with the Spanish
Romanian Film Days in Stockholm/Four Romanian films from past year to be screened on November 2 - 3
Four Romanian films from the past year will be screened on November 2 and 3 in the capital of Sweden, as part of the Romanian Film Days in Stockholm. The event is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Romanian Revolution. At the Zita Cinema in central Stockholm, the following films w
ICR Beijing opens book and photo exhibition celebrating 75 years of Romanian-Chinese bilateral relations
The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in Beijing organised at the headquarters in Galaxy Soho the opening of the book and photography exhibition focused on "75 years of Romanian-Chinese bilateral relations in photo snapshots and representative books," opening organised together with the Chinese Cultural Centre in Bucharest, where an own exhibition with the same top
One-off in Europe research hub for geoscience, life sciences and aquatic systems in Murighiol
Under a contract for the priority project International Center for Advanced Studies for River-Sea Systems DANUBIUS-RO that was signed on Wednesday at the government headquarters by Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Transformation Bogdan Ivan, Minister of European Investments and Projects Adrian Caciu, and general director of the National Research and Development I