From The Romania Journal
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BNR: Half of Romania’s GDP is Generated by 7 Cities
Romania has annually closed an average of two percentage points of the gap with the European average. In 2000, Romania’s GDP per capita (at purchasing power parity) stood at around 25% of the EU average, but currently, this figure exceeds 75%, said Csaba Balint, a member of the Board of Director of the National Bank […]
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Government Launches #NoFake Platform for Reporting Social Media Deepfakes
The Minister of Research, Innovation, and Digitization, Bogdan Ivan, announced the launch of the #NoFake platform on Friday. This platform allows users to report inappropriate content on social networks, including digital fakes, derogatory content, disinformation, and manipulations.“The #nofake platform will function as a point of contact for the analysis requests that Romanians make regarding digital […]
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Hesburger enters the Romanian market
The company aims to open 10 new locations in different cities, including Bucharest, and investments of over 8 million Euros in the next 12 months. Hesburger, a fast-service restaurant chain in Finland and the Baltic countries, announces its entry into the Romanian market and the opening of its first restaurant in Râmnicu Vâlcea. A family […]
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Wonder Coach: New Romanian Indie Film Debuts at Cannes Marche du Film
Wonder Coach (CINE NU E GATA in Romanian), the new feature film directed by Florian Anghel, based on the novel of the same name written by Iulia Nani, represents a unique phenomenon in Romanian cinema, both by its “behind the scenes” and by the standards it tries to set from a creative point of view. […]
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Tbi Bank and Safety Broker Team Up
Consumers’ need for access to new efficient financing tools has increased in the current economic context, including in the insurance sector, where the cost of insurance policies is on an upward trend. tbi bank has partnered with a local insurance broker, Safety Broker. Customers can buy insurance, including RCA through the Buy Now, Pay Later […]
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Romanians, ready to travel to Germany for EURO 2024
With the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany just around the corner next month, and the Olympic Games in Paris kicking off at the end of July, and with Romania qualifying for the Euro 2024, Romanians are planning to mix sports and vacation. Romania will be playing 3 football games: on June 17th, June 22nd […]
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FORT, a Bittnet Group cyber security firm, debuts on AeRO market
FORT, a cybersecurity company within the Bittnet Group, debuted on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange today, May 17th, under the ticker 4RT. This listing followed a share capital increase and a private placement, through which FORT raised RON 1.67 million. The company’s anticipated market capitalization is nearly RON 51 million. ‘The AeRO […]
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Romanian Climber Conquers Mount Everest
Romanian mountaineer Adrian Ahriţculesei, from Petroşani, conquered the peak of Everest (8,848 m), according to an announcement made on Friday morning by his sports manager, Ştefan Adrian Jurca. “Ahriţculesei Adrian conquered the Roof of the World. It is on Everest (8,848 m). Next comes the hardest part of this expedition, the descent to the base […]
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Museum employees to PM Ciolacu: “We are waiting for you in any of the public museums, for 4 hours a day”
Amid upcoming protest across the museum institutions in Romania, museum employees are calling on Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to apologize publicly after his statements on Wednesday, when he said, regarding their Museum Night 2024 protests, that he would not respond to “blackmail”. The employees accuse prime minister Ciolacu of inciting the violation of the Labor […]
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Romania Launches Cultural Tourism Platform with RON 36 M PNRR Funds
Romania has launched today a cultural multimedia platform Romania Atractiva/Attractive Romania. Romania’s cultural tourism program includes 12 thematic routes that cross the entire country, with 275 objectives to visit, presented in the platform and which, until 2026, will be signaled including through specific road infrastructure. The Attractive Romania program, with a value of approximately 36.3 […]
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19 children injured in Gaza will be brought to hospitals in Romania
19 Palestinian children, injured in the attacks of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, will be treated in Romania. They will be brought by military planes and admitted urgently to hospitals in Bucharest. Most of the children will be taken from the West Bank, sources told Digi24. According to initial information, they will be […]
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IKEA opens new location outside Bucharest
The Swedish furniture retailer IKEA also reaches the shores of the Black Sea, by opening the first Planning and Order Studio in Romania, located in the Supernova Constanța shopping center. Located on Cumpenei street no. 2 in Constanța, the IKEA Planning and Ordering Studio is the first of its kind in Romania and represents an […]