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The 2024 Brașov Jazz & Blues Festival will take place over four days, between August 15 and August 18, featuring more than 30 concerts, over 100 artists from around the world, and more than 20 films screened across nine locations. For the first time in Romania, Sugar Ray & The Bluetones feat. Rusty Zinn (USA)…

Vsevolod Maievskyi, a former first dancer of the Mariinsky Theater and current soloist of the English National Ballet, will dance at the Stars Gala, scheduled for August 25 at the I.L. Caragiale National Theater in Bucharest. He will dance alongside young Romanian ballerina, Rebecca Rudolf, who joined the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München in the 2023/24 season as…

The cities of Cluj and Brașov have been included in the global ranking of the 250 happiest cities in the world, occupying the 195 and 220 positions, respectively, in the Happy City Index 2024, put together by the Institute for Quality of Life. The international ranking gives cities a score in five main categories, namely…

The Romanian engineering company Simtel Team (SMTL) is set to transfer to the main market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange starting Monday, August 12, according to an announcement from the BVB.  Simtel Team began the process of transferring its shares to the main market, publishing in May the audited financial results according to IFRS for…

The Tour of Romania, set to gather 26 teams from 14 countries, will take place between August 14 and August 18, the Romanian Cycling Federation announced. The tour will start in Deva and will take place in five stages, going through Alba Iulia, Păltiniş, Sibiu, Cristian and Târgovişte, and ending in Bucharest. It will cover…

The Tate brothers, who recently filmed themselves feeding a bear from their car on the side of the road, have each been fined RON 1,500 (EUR 300).  The fine was announced by the Ministry of Environment on Thursday, August 8. Feeding wild animals is prohibited by law in Romania. Feeding bears can be especially problematic,…

Luminița Runcan has been appointed the general manager of OTP Bank Romania, where she will coordinate the integration of OTP Romania into the BT Group. The appointment follows Banca Transilvania’s acquisition of OTP Bank Romania, a EUR 347.5 million deal announced in February of this year. Runcan, who has received the approval of the National…

Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan accused the Traffic Commission of issuing illegal permits for real estate projects and announced that from now on, such permits will be issued by himself only, with the Commission having a consultative role.  “Starting today, I will sign the traffic notices for zonal and detail urban planning documents (PUZs and PUDs)…

Romania’s Government endorsed on August 8 the fourth edition of the Start-Up scheme dedicated to local entrepreneurs, with an implementation calendar of five years and a budget of EUR 450 million, out of which 80% is from European funds under the Education and Employment 2021-2027 program and 20% from the national budget. Unlike the previous…

Turkish company Dogan Jeotermal, active in construction, tourism, and manufacturing, purchased a plot of land and related buildings for developing a pre-insulated pipes factory, the mayor of Buzau Constantin Toma said, quoted by Bursa. The pipes will be delivered to heating networks in Romania and the European Union. The project reached an advanced stage, and…