Oana Tilica

The National Weather Administration (ANM) issued on Tuesday an unstable weather warning valid nationwide in Romania during the day, and a heat warning valid mainly in the western, south-west and southern areas throughout Sunday.

The National Weather Administration (ANM) issued on Monday a Code Orange of heavy rain warning valid through Tuesday morning in seven counties in Romania, and a Code Yellow of showers in other seven counties.

Young farmers in the diaspora, who want to access European funds to establish themselves as heads/managers of farms in the rural areas still have time to submit their applications to the Rural Investment Financing Agency (AFIR) by Monday, 4:00 pm, AFIR informs.

All CFR Calatori [Romania's National Railway Company - Passengers branch - editor's note] trains running between 6:00 am and 11:00 pm to and from Henri Coanda Airport will also stop at Mogosoaia Park station [a park in a rural town north-west of Bucharest - editor's note], starting July 15, the company informs on Friday.

Romania's National Weather Administration (ANM) updated its weather warning on Thursday, issuing a Code Yellow warning of unstable weather during the day in mountainous areas, in Dobrogea, Moldavia and Muntenia, keeping in place a Code Red heat warning for the western parts of the country, Code Orange for Oltenia and most of Transylvania and the Code Yellow for the rest of the country.

Air passenger transport decreased by 76.2% in the first quarter of 2021, from 3,851,100 passengers to 916,500, due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Romania will manage to decrease this year from a budget deficit of 9.2 pct of GDP in 2020 to 5.4 pct of GDP, said Andrei Radulescu, director of macroeconomic analysis at Banca Transilvania (BT), at the 17th edition of the event "Meeting with the economic press", in central Predeal.

Labour Minister Raluca Turcan in Brussels on Tuesday discussed with European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira the issue of vulnerable people and the improvement of social services in Romania.

The current account of balance of payment registered a deficit of 4.710 billion Euro, during the first 4 months of 2021, rising by 107.12%, in comparison with the one from the similar period of 2020, of 2.274 billion Euro, according to a press release from the Romanian National Bank (BNR) sent to AGERPRES on Monday.

The National Company for Energy Transport Transelectrica and the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) have signed a partnership through which they will establish and operationalise DigiTEL, the only integrated digital laboratory in Romania, for testing future technologies from the energy sphere, the company informs.