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Eurostat: Romania sees EU's largest annual construction output fall in Nov
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Romania posted the sharpest annual decline in construction output among EU countries, for which data is available, in November, at 9.5%, while Slovenia came in third with 4.2%, the bloc's statistical office said on Monday. During the same month, Bulgaria recorded the EU's second-highest year-on-year increase in construction production, at 8.6%, preceded only by Spain with 9.8%, Eurostat said in a ...
Volume of construction works down 5% in first 11 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The volume of construction works went down 5% in the first 11 months of 2024, as a gross series, compared to the period from January 1 to November 30, 2023, while as series adjusted for working days and seasonality it recorded a 3.9% decline, according to data published the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Monday.Thus, as gross series, decreases were recorded in maintenance and current repairs (-10.4%) and in new construction works (-4.5%). On ...
Net average monthly salary to increase by 6.2 pct, real earnings by 1.6 pct in 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
The net average monthly salary will increase in 2025 by 6.2%, up to 5,355 RON, and the real earnings will go up by 1.6%, according to the 2024-2028 Forecast, the autumn version, of the National Commission for Strategy and Prognosis.In 2026, the net average monthly salary will increase by 6.7% to 5,712 lei (+3.3% real earnings), in 2027 by 6.4% to 6,079 RON (+3.3% real earnings), and in 2027 it will increase by 6.1% to 6,449 RON (+3% real ...
PM Ciolacu: Romania not endangered by Russian drone whose remains fell in Plauru area
Monday, January 20, 2025
Romania was not endangered at any time by the Russian drone whose remains fell in the area of the town of Plauru in Tulcea County, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said.The PM made this statement on Friday in a press conference after a working visit to the Ministry of Agriculture, when asked if the Romanian authorities had taken additional measures after the incident involving the crash of debris from a Russian drone in the Plauru area."There was no ...
Twelve situations of fallen drone fragments in Romania, 11 in Tulcea County
Monday, January 20, 2025
The increase in the number of troops in the Romanian-Ukrainian border area on the territory of Tulcea County, as well as the location of several observation points and ground sensors explains the speed with which the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) identified on Friday, in Ceatalchioi commune, traces of a drone used in the war started by Russia against Ukraine.According to the data provided by MApN, from ...
ForMin Hurezeanu refers, in Lithuania, to violation of Romania's airspace following Russian attacks at border with Ukraine
Monday, January 20, 2025

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emil Hurezeanu, participated, on Thursday and Friday, in the informal Snow Meeting, held in Lithuania, on which occasion he referred to the latest violations of the national airspace after the attacks of the Russian Federation on the Ukrainian river infrastructure near the border, as a result of which the Romanian specialists found remains of drones in the Danube Delta.In his interventions, the minister ...
Ministry warns people mispresent themselves as reserves soldiers on online platforms
Monday, January 20, 2025
Romania's Defence Ministry (MApN) is reiterating the fact that, lately, disinformation and manipulation have proliferated on line in Romania, especially on digital communication platforms, through which some people who express different opinions misrepresent themselves as current or former MApN employees.The most recent situation of this kind, MApN says, is that of a person who manages accounts on the TikTok platform as "raisa 8283" and who is presented as a ...
Colombian arrested for attempted Russian-coordinated sabotage act was targeting critical infrastructure near Bucharest
Monday, January 20, 2025
Romanian police and the country's Intelligence Service presented on Friday details about the strategic infrastructure a Colombian man detained on charges of attempted diversion and sabotage intended to blow up at the behest of a Russian proxy - a recyclable waste deposit in Ilfov, two oil drilling wells and a gas regulation/metering station.According to the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), 34-year-old ...
Hundreds of vehicles head to Romania for first deployment of Nato's Allied Reaction Force
Monday, January 20, 2025
Hundreds of British military vehicles and personnel are on their way to Romania for Nato's Exercise Steadfast Dart in what is the first deployment of the alliance's Allied Reaction Force. If a Nato ally was invaded in Eastern Europe, ...
Bulgarian former PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha honored with Romania's highest decoration
Monday, January 20, 2025
Ambassador of Romania in Sofia Brandusa Predescu presented on Thursday former Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with the Grand Cross of the National Order of the Star of Romania, in a ceremony held at the Romanian Embassy in Bulgaria's capital city, news agency BTA reports.President Klaus Iohannis awarded the former Bulgarian prime minister with Romania's highest distinction at the end of November last year, as a sign of "high ...
Calin Georgescu's electoral challenge case dismissed under top court final ruling
Monday, January 20, 2025
The High Court of Cassation and Justice on Friday definitively dismissed the lawsuit initiated by presidential contender Calin Georgescu in the case of the cancellation of the presidential election, after the Bucharest Court of Appeal had already ruled against him on December 31, 2024."Rejects, as groundless, the appeal filed by appellant-plaintiff Georgescu Calin against Ruling No. 139 of December 31, 2024 and the December 30, 2024 ...
PM Ciolacu:The democratic way is for overseas voting process to end at the time domestic polls close
Monday, January 20, 2025
Romanian expats can vote for three days, compared to their fellow nationals in the country, and the democratic way is for the voting process to end all over the world at the time polls close in the country where the election is being held, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Friday, answering a news conference question about criticism leveled by the opposition at the amendment of the presidential election legislation, that the voting time for Romanians overseas, ...
Romanian civil society, opposition slam presidential rerun arrangements
Monday, January 20, 2025

*In particular, voting hours in the diaspora have been slammed as unfair, www. Euractiv.com says. The decision to rerun the annulled presidential election on 4 and 18 May has already drawn criticism for a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the decision and the voting period for Romanians abroad. The ...
World Bank revises downwards Romania's growth prospects
Monday, January 20, 2025

The Romanian economy is expected to grow 2.1% this year, compared to a 3.8% growth forecast in June 2024, according to the latest "Global Economic Prospects" report the World Bank published on Thursday.Additionally, in 2026, Romania's GDP growth is projected to be 2.6%, down from the 3.8% the World Bank forecast in June.Growth in Central Europe is expected to recover to 2.8% in 2025 and 3% in 2026, due to robust private demand. However, exports ...
Eurostat: Inflation in Romania is the highest in the EU for the 10th month in a row
Monday, January 20, 2025
The annual rate of inflation in the European Union went up in December up to 2.7% from the level of 2.5% in November and Romania is, for the tenth month in a row, the country with the highest inflation in the community bloc, with an advance of prices of 5.5%, show the data published on Friday by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat).Last month the lowest annual ...
Romania's Ambassador to U.S. to officially represent Romania at Trump inauguration ceremony
Friday, January 17, 2025
Romania's Ambassador to the U.S. Andrei Muraru informed on Thursday that, in his capacity as ambassador, he will participate and officially represent Romania at the inauguration ceremony of the new U.S. president, Donald Trump, which will take place on Monday, January 20."The only official invitations, extended on behalf of the President-elect Donald J. Trump, were sent by the Inaugural Committee through the Protocol of the U.S. Department of State, ...
Calin Georgescu says he was asked to participate in Trump's inauguration, but he refused
Friday, January 17, 2025
Calin Georgescu says that he was asked to participate in the inauguration ceremony of American President Donald Trump, but he refused "for very clear reasons".Present on Thursday at the Supreme Court, Georgescu was asked by journalists whether he was invited to the U.S. to participate on January 20 in the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump."I was asked to go, but I refused, for very clear reasons", answered Calin ...
Disinformation on modernization of Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase, efforts, aimed at strengthening defence and deterrence capabilities
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Ministry of National Defence (MApN) rejects the speculations on the process of expansion and modernization of the 57th Air Base "Captain Aviator Constantin Cantacuzino" at Mihail Kogalniceanu, launched in the Romanian and international public space, through which "manipulative interpretations and scenarios, not in line with reality" are being spread."The investments planned for the modernization and expansion of this military base of ...
Kelemen Hunor: Calin Georgescu’s connections with a famous former communist spy
Friday, January 17, 2025
In an interview with the Hungarian publication Maszol, quoted by G4media, the president of Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR – junior in government coalition), Kelemen Hunor, brought up the past of former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu. “The man who presented himself as anti-system is the man of ...
Government has set date of presidential elections for May 4, electoral period starts on February 18
Friday, January 17, 2025
The government approved on Thursday that the date of the presidential elections will be May 4, with the electoral period starting on February 18.The executive also decided that voting abroad will take place over three days, with polling stations closing on May 4 at 21:00. Romanian time, instead of local time, as it was until now."The normative acts setting the date of the presidential elections have been approved. (...) Two government decisions ...