Social/Politics
Irregularities Found In Public Procurement Following First Checkups
The Romanian National Authority for Public Procurement Regulation and Monitoring (ANRMAP) on Monday checked six auctions announced through the Public Procurement Electronic System (SEAP) and...
Romania Opens Consular Crisis Center To Assist Citizens In Danger While Abroad
Romania's Foreign Ministry as of Monday has a Consular Crisis Center, a structure designed to help Romanians in danger while abroad through a Rapid Reaction Unit, that will provide temporary...
Romanian SME Agency To Raise Staff Number By 30 - Bill
Romania’s Economy Ministry will allow the government agency for small and medium-sized enterprises to up its staff numbers by 30, to 152, by redistributing staff from other institutions unde...
Romania’s High Defense Council Meets For Talks On CFR Marfa Privatization
Romania’s high defense council CSAT will convene Monday for talks on the privatization strategy targeting state-run freight railway company CFR Marfa, the decentralization of the police serv...
Biggest Commitment From A Minister: I’ll Get EUR4B In One Year
The new European fund czar Leonard Orban, who was Romania’s first commissioner to Brussels for three years and a half, makes a huge bet a little while after taking his position as minister o...
E-bureaucracy: 4 Million Employees Fed Manually Into Two Databases
Data on the wages and types of employment contracts of over 4.2 million Romanian employees will have to be introduced in a new electronic register by the end of October, according to a Gover...
Romanian Football Referee Commission Chief, Businessman Arrested In Match-Fixing Case
The Bucharest Court on Sunday ordered the 29-day preventive arrest of Central Referee Commission head Vasile Avram and businessman Sorin Terbea for taking bribes to fix football matches in t...
Iraqi Court Sentences Two Men To Life For Kidnapping Romanian Journalists In 2005
The Central Criminal Court of Iraq has sentenced two men to life in prison for the role in the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005, the court said in a press release Sat...
Orban: Public Procurement Norms Agreed On With EC Must Be Adopted By End-October
The Romanian Audit Authority must adopt the new regulations regarding public procurement, agreed upon with the European Commission, by the end of October, otherwise EU payments might be ceas...