Social/Politics
Bucharest Unemployment Rate At 1.15% In November 2021
Capital city of Bucharest registered 14,080 jobless people (of whom 7,497 women) at the end of November 2021, taking the unemployment rate to 1.15%, data from the Bucharest Municipal Employm...
Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania See Lowest Decreases In Air Passenger Transport In The EU In 2020
Air passenger transport plunged by 73.3% in 2020 across the European Union, with Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania reporting the lowest decreases among the 27 EU member states, rangin...
INS: Number Of Job Vacancies In Romania Grows To 47,300 In 3Q/2021
In the third quarter of 2021, the number of job vacancies in Romania stood at 47.3 thousand, increasing by 7.7 thousand as against the previous quarter, data from the country’s statistics bo...
Private Pensions Funds In Romania Paid Over RON1B To 115,000 Beneficiaries In Last 14 Years
Private pension funds in Romania on the mandatory (Pillar II) and voluntary (Pillar III) segments made payments worth over RON1 billion (EUR200 million) to almost 115,000 participants and he...
Employment Agency: Bucharest Jobless Rate At 1.17% In September 2021
The unemployment rate in capital Bucharest stood at 1.17% at end-September 2021, lower by 0.85 percentage points compared with 1.18% in August 2021, data from Bucharest’s employment agency s...
European Commission Approves EUR358M Romanian Aid Scheme For Pandemic-Hit SMEs
The European Commission on Wednesday said it has approved a Romanian scheme worth EUR358 million aimed at supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in sectors affected by...
Romania Spent RON15.7B, Or Nearly 1.5% Of GDP, On Environmental Protection In 2020
Romania’s environmental protection expenditure stood at RON15.7 billion in 2020, or nearly 1.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP), with the bulk of the amount going into waste management,...
President Klaus Iohannis Designates Dacian Ciolos (USR) for Prime Minister
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Monday designated USR member Dacian Ciolos for prime minister.
Romanian Government Collapses In No-Confidence Vote
Romania’s center-right government of Liberal Prime Minister Florin Citu has been toppled in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday (October 5), with 281 votes in favor of the motion.