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European armies only have 50% of the means we need today, according to NATO objectives, said European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius, in an interview with Euractiv. That is why the European Commission official stresses the urgency of...

The leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union decided yesterday in Brussels to accelerate the transformation of the community bloc into a credible and effective actor in the field of defense, capable of reacting to the entire spectrum...

Europe must reach a level of complete readiness by 2030, capable of deterring any threat, is the joint message conveyed yesterday by Mark Rutte - NATO Secretary General - and Ursula von der Leyen - President of the European Commission, at the...

Defense companies play a key role in shaping global security, supplying everything from fighter jets and missiles to advanced cyber systems, and in 2025, the valuations of major defense contractors rose to record highs amid ongoing armed...

The representatives of the European Union and Great Britain are to sign a defense and security pact today in London, a gesture with a strong symbolic and strategic charge, at a time marked by global geopolitical turbulence, according to an...

Finanţarea de către Comisia Europeană a achiziţiilor militare comune riscă să fie contestată la Curtea de Justiţie a Uniunii Europene potrivit textului unei scrisori înaintată către Ursula von der Leyen şi către Antonio Costa, de Roberta Metsola,...

The European Commission's financing of joint military procurement risks being challenged at the Court of Justice of the European Union, according to the text of a letter sent to Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa by Roberta Metsola,...

The recent decision of the Trump Administration to indefinitely suspend the Visa Waiver program for Romania and a series of articles published by American media close to the Republican camp have raised fears among some leaders of political...

Any peace agreement must respect Ukraine's sovereignty and be negotiated with its participation on the principle of "Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine, nothing about Europe without Europe", states the final declaration of the...

The Governor of the National Bank of France, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, has sparked strong reactions in the French press after recently declaring at the World Economic Forum in Davos that 300 billion euros need to be mobilized to finance the...

EU countries that are also NATO members must increase their arms stocks more quickly, said European Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, yesterday, at the annual conference of the European Defence Agency, according to the Euractiv website. The...

Europe faces a significant shortage of military personnel and an insufficiency of defense capabilities, despite increased spending on this sector since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, according to a report prepared by the British...

The European Parliament, with 401 votes in favor, 284 votes against, 15 abstentions and 7 null votes, decided yesterday to grant Ursula von der Leyen a new mandate as President of the European Commission, despite the fact that the EU Court of...

The representatives of the 32 NATO member states approved yesterday a substantial package of military support for Ukraine, a package that provides, among other things, the sending of 5 Patriot systems, a SAMP-T system, dozens of tactical air...

Reporter: I'll start with an awkward question. What prompted the people from Rheinmetall to return to Romania, after the failure of the joint venture they had with Uzina Automecanica Moreni? What attracted Rheinmetall representatives...

The second month of spring was a stormy one for the PSD-PNL political coalition, which had to face the media revelations about how the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoiu - the candidate of both parties for the position of general mayor of the Capital - made...

The takeover by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) of the criminal file opened against Ursula von der Leyen by the Public Prosecutor's Office attached to the Court of Liege is nothing more than a smoke screen, by which it is...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

The way in which Brussels officials seek to create all kinds of legislative artifices aimed at allowing derogations from the Treaty on the Functioning of the Union, in order to allow the allocation of funds for common European armament purposes...

In yesterday's meeting, the Ciolacu government repealed HG 48/2018 regarding the multifunctional corvette program through which the Romanian Naval Forces should have been endowed with four marine corvettes and through which the maintenance of...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

If Vladimir Putin wins the war in Ukraine, it will be a positive message for Chinese President Xi Jinping regarding the actions that the authorities in Beijing are considering for the invasion of Taiwan, Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday in...

Reporter: What is the situation of the defense industry in our country?

The Financial Supervision Authority is waiting for the vote tonight or tomorrow by the plenary of the Parliament which will confirm the choice of the new management team made yesterday by the members of the joint committees of the budget,...

The European Commission wants to create a single market in the field of defense, which will include establishing and securing the supply chains of the defense industry at the level of the EU bloc, mapping, monitoring, prioritizing orders, as well...

Deputaţii europeni urmează să adopte astăzi Regulamentul privind consolidarea industriei europene de apărare prin achiziţiile comune, document care a fost dezbătut ieri în Parlamentul European, noul instrument financiar beneficiind de un buget de...

The European deputies are to adopt today the Regulation on the consolidation of the European defense industry through joint procurement, a document that was debated yesterday in the European Parliament, the new financial instrument benefiting...

The explosion at an illegally operating LPG station in Crevedia, a disaster that has so far resulted in four deaths and 54 injuries, revealed last month the corruption within the Romanian state and the inefficiency of the work of some public...

Ministrul Apărării Naţionale, Vasile Dîncu, participă astăzi şi mâine, la Praga, la Reuniunea informală a miniştrilor apărării din statele membre ale Uniunii Europene, informează Agerpres.

The approval of the state budget, the third wave of pandemic, new movement restrictions, spontaneous subway strike and protests against government measures are the defining elements of the most tumultuous month since the beginning of 2021 so far....

The European Anti-Fraud Office last year issued nine recommendations of recouping European grants, in 11 cases investigated in Romania, which puts the country on an unenviable top position in the EU, according to its activity report for 2019 of...

The aftermath of the political dispute in July made its negative effects fully felt throughout August. Due to the political indecision regarding the quarantine law that tormented the Romanian society in the middle of summer, we faced, last month,...

The state of alert has left its mark both on the political scene and the economic activity carried out in June. Many of the measures passed by the Government and Parliament have been aimed at further supporting the private business community and...

After many years of the army getting ignored and budget allocations that seemed more like jokes, it took the White House demanding the splitting of the military bill, for the Romanian political decision makers to accept that the army needs...

WTCB was created in 1994, as a joint Romanian-French company, in which the Romanian party held 55% of the shares. The World Trade Center Bucureşti complex also includes the 4-star Pullman hotel, which is part of the Accor international network....

Mircea Băsescu the president"s brother and Maria Cazacu, the daughter of the former Defense Industry Department of the Ministry of Economy, Aurel Cazacu, have officially exited Desintco SRL, after the Trade Registry last week recorded that...

• PNL MPs ask President Traian Basescu to call a CSAT meeting on the Army Procurement Strategy 

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• Chemical companies ask Government to set up a stock of fertilizers for farmers, State aid for chemical plants and funding for farmers in exchange for produce