June 13, 2025
A roundup of local and world news
Newsroom, 13.06.2025, 13:55
MAE The Foreign Ministry in Bucharest (MAE) has cautioned the Romanian citizens transiting and traveling to Iran than the security situation in that country is extremely volatile and unpredictable after the attacks on Friday. Taking into account the higher risk of military escalation, the Ministry strongly recommends the Romanian citizens to avoid trips to Iran in the following period and leave the Iranian territory by means of the available commercial buses and other safe means; it also recommends they monitor the updates provided by local and international authorities. The Romanian citizens can apply for assistance at the Consular Section in Tehran at the number +98 21 77 64 75 70 or at email: teheran.consul@mae.ro. The Romanian Foreign Ministry is monitoring the situation in the region and will be constantly updating its travel alerts, says its latest press release. On Friday Israel launched a series of attacks against Iran, which it suspects of trying to develop nuclear weapons. The attacks targeted nuclear facilities and killed the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s ideological army. The attacks come at a time when the talks between the USA and Iran on the latter’s nuclear programme are in a deadlock. According to Bucharest diplomacy, there is a risk of retaliatory attacks from Iran and the Romanian citizens in Israel are advised to try to remain in the vicinity of bomb shelters.
FESTIVAL Over June 16 and 20, Radio Romania will be hosting the Radio Drama International Festival. 24 radio productions from all over the world will be presented in the festival’s two sections, Drama and Short Forms. Auditions have been slated for the period between June 16 and 19 and every day of the festival is to end with a session of talks with representatives of the participant productions. The award gala will be taking place on June 20.
SALARY The medium net salary in Romania in April was the equivalent of 1,120 Euros, 0.8% lower than in March, data released on Friday by the National Institute for Statistics says. The average gross salary stood at 9,415 RON, 0.8% lower than in March this year. The biggest wages have been reported in the oil and gas extraction industry over 14 thousand RON and in the IT services area whereas the lowest in the hospitality and clothes making industry.
FOOTBALL Romania’s football selection takes on Spain in Bratislava on Saturday in a match counting towards the European Under-21 Football Championship underway in Slovakia. Romania started off on the wrong foot, a 1-0 defeat conceded to Italy on Wednesday night. In the group’s other match Spain secured a 3-2 win against Slovakia. Romania’s best result out of all its four participation in the aforementioned competition in 1998, 2019, 2021 and 2023 was in 2019, when it had made it to the semifinals and further qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
EUROSTAT In 2024 Romania had the second highest rate of severe material and social deprivation of young people with ages between 15 and 29 among the EU member states, of 14.7% as the bloc’s average level stood at 5.8%, data released on Thursday by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office, say. So, the countries with the largest proportion of young people facing severe material and social deprivation were Bulgaria, 17.2%, Romania, 14.7% and Greece, 14.4%. In another development, the proportion was lower than 3% in 10 EU members such as Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Luxembourg, Czechia, Latvia, Cyprus, Ireland and Portugal. Also in 2024, the AROPE rate, which is the share of the population, which is at risk of poverty or social exclusion among young people with ages between 15 and 29 was 24.1%, 3.1% higher than for the total population. Among the member states, the aforementioned rate was ranging between 32.4% in Bulgaria and 9.9% in Slovenia. In 2024, 17.3 million young people were facing the risk of poverty and social exclusion in the EU.
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