The Lifestyle Magazine
A non-EU spouse or child joins family in Romania through one of two procedures. The main one is family reunification under Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 194/2002 on foreigners. The second covers the families of Romanian citizens.
A job offer for Romania may quote gross pay, net pay, or a figure that ignores what the worker pays for housing.
Romanian citizenship is granted on request, not as an automatic right. Law 21/1991, as amended by Law 14/2025, states that it gives foreigners no right to citizenship by grant.
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.
The organizers of Electric Castle have announced the dates for the festival’s 13th edition: July 15–18, 2027 . For four days, Bánffy Castle in Bonțida will be ready to welcome hundreds of thousands of festivalgoers…
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.
