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TikTok launches Electoral Center, dedicated to Romanian elections
Monday, April 28, 2025
TikTok is strengthening its platform protection efforts by launching the Electoral Center dedicated to the Romanian elections, through a new media education campaign and through continued collaboration with over 20 fact-checking partners, according to a press release sent on Friday."As the next round of elections in Romania approaches, TikTok is today announcing a series of updates that strengthen its ongoing work to protect the platform and connect ...
ANCOM: Online platforms can suspend, restrict or close user accounts, must clearly justify decision
Monday, April 28, 2025
Providers of online platforms may impose a series of restrictions on users on the grounds that the information they provide constitutes illegal content or is incompatible with the general conditions of use of the platform services, informs the National Communications Administration and Regulation Authority (ANCOM), in a press release sent on Friday.According to the cited source, among the restrictions that can be imposed are: restrictions on the visibility ...
High Court of Cassation admits appeal against decision on suspending Constitutional Court's annulment of presidential election
Monday, April 28, 2025
The High Court of Cassation and Justice admitted, on Friday, the appeal against the decision by which the Ploiesti Court of Appeal admitted a request on the suspension of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR)'s decision of December 6, 2024 which annulled the presidential election.The Prosecutor's Office with the Ploiesti Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court of Romania contested the decision of the Ploiesti Court of ...
European investments minister, Commissioner Serafin visit EU-funded projects in Oradea
Monday, April 28, 2025
Minister of European Investments and Projects Marcel Bolos and European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration Piotr Serafin visited on Friday successful projects implemented in the city of Oradea with European funding, the Ministry said in a release."We welcome Commissioner Serafin's the initiative to tour the member states for consultations in preparation of the European Commission's proposal for the future Multiannual Financial ...
Romania, Bulgaria sign joint procurement agreement for Fast Danube 2 project
Monday, April 28, 2025
Under an agreement signed on Friday by Bulgaria's Danube River Exploration and Maintenance Executive Agency and Romania's Galati Lower Danube River Administration, Romania and Bulgaria will jointly manage the public procurement for the Fast Danube 2 project, news agency BTA reports.The project is aimed at improving navigation conditions on the joint Bulgarian-Romanian section of the Danube River, the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport and Communications ...
Budget deficit rises to 2.28% of GDP after first three months of 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
The budget deficit stood at 2.28% of GDP after the first three months of 2025, compared to 2.04% of GDP in the same period last year, according to data published on Friday by the Ministry of Finance"The execution of the general consolidated budget in the first three months of 2025 ended with a deficit of 43.66 billion RON, respectively 2.28% of GDP compared to the deficit of 35.88 billion RON, respectively 2.04% of GDP for the three months of ...
Wholesale turnover declines 4pct in Romania two months into 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
The turnover in Romania's wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles, decreased by 4% in the first two months of 2025 year-on-year, seasonally adjusted, according to data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Thus, between January 1 and February 28, 2025, decreases were recorded in wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals (-32.9%), other specialised wholesale (-9.7%), wholesale of other machinery, ...
Turnover from business services provided to enterprises in Romania slightly up two months into 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
The turnover of business services provided mainly to enterprises in Romania increased January 1 - February 28, 2025, y-o-y, by 0.1% unadjusted the National Institute of Statistics (INS) reported on Friday.According to INS, in the first two months of 2025 the turnover of business services provided mainly to enterprises unadjusted, there were increases in communications services (+5.4%), other services provided mainly to enterprises (+3%) and ...
Gov't approves day of national mourning in Romania in memory of Pope Francis
Friday, April 25, 2025
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has announced that Saturday April 26 will be a day of national mourning in Romania in memory of Pope Francis, saying that this is a "decision that shows deep respect for the total openness and warmth permanently shown to Romanians.""We approve a day of national mourning in Romania in memory of Pope Francis, on Saturday, April 26, on the very day of the funeral at the Vatican. It is a decision that shows the deep respect for his ...
Acting President Bolojan meets Commissioner Serafin, advocates maintaining Cohesion and CAP allocations
Friday, April 25, 2025
Acting President Ilie Bolojan met on Thursday at Cotroceni Palace with European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration Piotr Serafin, to whom he highlighted the importance of Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy allocations being maintained in the future EU budget and of identifying solutions to the current challenges in the areas of competitiveness, defense and security."At the meeting with EU Commissioner ...
PM Ciolacu, meeting with Commissioner Serafin
Friday, April 25, 2025
Romania will play an active and constructive role in the consultations for the post 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework so that it results in a balanced proposal, able to respond to the objectives of the European Union and to the political, economic and security changes, said Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, at the meeting with the delegation led by the European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, Piotr Serafin."For Romania, the ...
Interior minister, EC delegation discuss next EU multiannual financial framework
Friday, April 25, 2025
Minister of the Interior Catalin Predoiu met on Thursday with a delegation led by European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration Piotr Serafin for talks on the next EU multiannual financial framework, the Interior Ministry said in a release.The European Commissioner's two-day visit to Romania is part of a series of pan-European consultations which began early this year, with decision-makers, regions, citizens, the business environment ...
Ploiesti Court of Appeal suspends execution of Constitutional Court's decision on annulment of presidential election
Friday, April 25, 2025
A judge with the Ploiesti Court of Appeal admitted a request on the suspension of the Constitutional Court (CCR)'s decision of December 6, 2024 which annulled the presidential election.''Admits the request on the suspension of the execution of the contested administrative act. Suspends the execution of the Constitutional Court's Decision no. 32 of December 6, 2024, until the final resolution of the case. Admits the action for annulment. Annuls the ...
AtlasIntel survey: 11 days before presidential elections – George Simion ranks first with 31.9% of options, Antonescu second, followed by Nicusor Dan
Friday, April 25, 2025
AUR candidate George Simion, continues torank first in the race for the first round of presidential elections of May 4, according to an opinion poll made by AtlasIntel for HotNews, over April 17-22. Data show that Simion lost in 9 days most of what he had won in a month, for the second round of elections. At the same time, he reduced the difference to any oponent, in a presidential final round. According to the survey, Simion is ...
TikTok announces new measures to combat misinformation ahead of Romanian election
Friday, April 25, 2025
* TikTok has launched an election centre to combat disinformation ahead of Romania’s repeat presidential vote in May, amid doubts whether the platform had failed to protect the integrity of the previous annulled election, https://www.euractiv.com/ reads. TikTok announced new measures on Thursday aimed at safeguarding Romania’s ...
Election watchdog starts inquiry into funding of AUR's campaigning, current activity
Friday, April 25, 2025
The Standing Electoral Authority (AEP) announced on Thursday having started the legal procedures to check the funding of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR)'s campaigning for the May 4 presidential election and the current activity of this political party."Considering the information that appeared in the public space regarding the fact that the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party would have carried out possible political ...
Prosecutors extend judicial control over former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu
Friday, April 25, 2025
Romanian prosecutors decided on Thursday, April 24, to extend the judicial control over Calin Georgescu for another 60 days, Digi24 reported. The former far-right presidential candidate appeared at the headquarters of ...
Acting president Bolojan meets representatives of French Chamber of Commerce to discuss development of Romanian-French economic relations
Friday, April 25, 2025
Acting President Ilie Bolojan received, on Thursday, at the Cotroceni Palace, a delegation of the French Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Romania (CCIFER), in the context of conferring the Order "Industrial and Commercial Merit" in the rank of CCIFER Officer.The order was granted for the outstanding merits in the over three decades of French economic presence in Romania, for the significant contribution made to ...
Romania, Bulgaria to hold joint public procurement procedures to improve Danube River navigation
Friday, April 25, 2025
At its regular meeting on Wednesday, the Bulgarian Council of Ministers approved an agreement between the Danube River Exploration and Maintenance Executive Agency and Romania's Lower Danube River Administration in Galati on the joint launch of public procurement procedures under the FAST Danube 2 project, which aims to improve navigation conditions on the joint Bulgarian-Romanian stretch of the Danube River, news agency BTA reports.The ...
Romania and Moldova to launch construction of first road bridge over Prut in last six decades
Friday, April 25, 2025
The Republic of Moldova and Romania will jointly mark, on Saturday, the launch of the construction of the first motorway bridge over the Prut River in the last six decades - the Ungheni Bridge, through a symbolic event generically called the "Flower Bridge" Festival.The bridge will connect the Zagarancea locality in Ungheni district (the Republic of Moldova) and the Golaesti commune in Iasi county (Romania), being part of the Unirii Motorway (A8), with a ...