Oltenia

The number of building permits for residential buildings issued in February 2020 increased by 8.7 percent compared to the same month of 2019 and by 33.6 percent compared to January 2020, according to the data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Monday.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued on Sunday a Code Orange advisory for heavy snowfalls and blizzard in 12 counties of Oltenia, western Muntenia, southern Banat and the Southern Carpathians, valid until Wednesday morning.

The National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued a Code Yellow alert of heavy rainfalls and storms in 25 counties for Monday and a similar alert for 10 counties and the Bucharest Municipality until Tuesday morning.

As many as 33,015 building permits for residential buildings were issued in the first nine months of 2018, up 4.4pct from the same period last year, according to data with the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Tuesday.

Bucharest and other 14 counties will be under code orange of heavy snowfall on Thursday night, while 16 counties will be under the code yellow of abundant snowfall starting Thursday afternoon, according to warnings issued Wednesday by the National Weather Administration (ANM).

The National Meteorology Administration (ANM) has issued on Friday a Yellow Code warning of snows, strong wind, mixed precipitations, ice for the south, southeastern and locally central Romania, and in the Southern and Oriental Carpathians valid from December 26, 20:00 hrs until December 27, 20:00 hrs.

The National Meteorology Administration (ANM) on Sunday issued Code Yellow alerts of blizzard, snowfall and sleet for 28 counties, Bucharest included in place starting 10 p.m. on Sunday till Tuesday at the same hour.

Daily Hürriyet has released an official statement after media organizations were banned from reporting on the parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations concerning four former Cabinet ministers. 

Stressing that such media bans had been common in Turkey’s past but were now returning, the newspaper urged the authorities to “address this critical question.”

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday said in Targu Jiu (northwest of Bucharest) that he has chosen the County of Gorj for his first day of campaign because he owes it to the inhabitants of Gorj and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) branch here for the support they gave him in 2004 and 2008 parliamentary elections, when he was elected deputy.

The National Weather Forecaster on Monday extended a Code Orange alert of rains for six counties in southern and southwestern Romania - Gorj, Mehedinti, Dolj, Valcea, Olt and Arges.