The Lifestyle Magazine
To use Romania’s public health system you register with a family doctor (medic de familie) who has a contract with the county health insurance house (CAS). You fill in a one-page request at the practice and, if insured, show your national health card once it has been issued.
An EU, EEA or Swiss citizen can live in Romania for up to 3 months with only a valid ID card or passport.
Romania pays a monthly state child allowance, the alocația de stat pentru copii, to every child up to 18. The children of foreign citizens and stateless people qualify too, if they are resident in Romania and live with their parents.
Romanian law gives insured mothers 126 days of paid maternity leave, fathers 10 working days of paid paternity leave (15 with a childcare course), and either parent up to 2 years of child-raising leave paid by the state (3 years for a child with a disability).
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the English stage actor who became a global television and film star as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, has died at the age of 86.
Travelers asking how long a rail pass lasts across Europe, and what it actually costs, are dealing with a system that changed its own name this year.
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October 2026 for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock, under the registrant name “Anthropic, PBC”.
Romania’s public pension is contributory and nationality-blind.
Visitors insured elsewhere in the EU, the EEA, Switzerland or the UK want to know what their card buys them in a Romanian clinic; people insured in Romania want the Romanian version before a trip.
