Weekly overview in pictures: Fuel subsidy scheme comes into force | Senate head resigns | First green registration plate in Romania
This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. While the prices of car fuels dropped slightly last week under a government scheme, train tickets got more expensive. At the same time, Romania started issuing…
Irina Marica · Journalist
· Updated · 4 min read
This weekly overview brings you the main topics from Romania, in pictures. While the prices of car fuels dropped slightly last week under a government scheme, train tickets got more expensive. At the same time, Romania started issuing green registration plates, and a local company said it would produce a GT4 sports car. In politics, the NATO Summit in Madrid happened last week, while locally, the Senate president resigned. See the photo collection for the June 27-July 3 week below. (Opening photo: sign announcing the RON 50 discount at a gas station; photo by Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea)
The government approved last Thursday the emergency ordinance aimed at mitigating the high fuel prices in Romania. Under this scheme, the end-user price should have dropped by RON 0.5 per litre at gas stations, but the measure is optional. According to the government, half of the subsidy (RON 0.25) is covered by the state budget, while the other half is a commercial discount applied voluntarily by gas station chains. The scheme applies for three months, and according to official statements, most gas stations cut their prices. Below is a picture of a receipt that includes the RON 0.5/litre discount.
Also last week, investigators started gathering evidence in a case targeting the embezzlement of RON 23.5 mln from the accounts of the private pension fund BRD Pensii Private. The main suspect is reportedly the company's former general manager. It is the biggest scandal recorded so far in the Romanian private pensions sector, which has a history of almost 15 years.
In politics, a highlight of last week was the NATO Summit in Madrid, where leaders of the Alliance met to discuss the hottest issues. Among them was Romania's president Klaus Iohannis, who said the country had fulfilled all the objectives set for this summit. On the sidelines of the summit,
