The Lifestyle Magazine
Most English pages about a “work permit” for Romania still describe a system that no longer takes new applications. For years an employer asked the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI) for a work authorisation, the aviz de muncă, and the worker used it to get a visa.
In the space of three days, US President Donald Trump announced a deal to bring Russian diesel to the world market and then declared an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Both moves are aimed at the same problem: fuel prices that have climbed to records during the US war with Iran.
President Donald Trump on Friday, 9 October, signed an order creating a committee to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and to advise him on whether he has grounds to remove her.
Shares of the companies building the artificial intelligence boom fell on Thursday, 8 October, after investors learned that OpenAI’s revenue is running well below a figure that had been widely reported only weeks ago.
A child born in Germany to a Romanian parent, a wedding held in Italy, a marriage to a foreign spouse registered abroad: for the Romanian state, none of these events exists on paper until the foreign certificate has…
Oil prices rose sharply on Thursday, 8 October, as two separate threats to supply landed at once: a record run of attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and a hurricane bearing down on US offshore production.
A degree earned abroad does not automatically count in Romania. To be hired in a role that requires a degree, to continue studying, or to practise certain professions, a foreign graduate usually needs a certificate of…
Few words cause as much confusion in expat paperwork as “apostille”. It is often mixed up with a certified translation or a notary stamp, and people regularly discover at a counter that the document they brought is…
Romania is a party to the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention, and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that apostille certification in the country is governed directly by that convention, according to the ministry’s own guidance page.
When an artist 18,000 years ago sat down to carve a figurine from a piece of mammoth ivory, they were not working with a blank canvas. Mammoth tusks carry their own hidden architecture — faint, curving growth lines laid down over the animal’s life.
